As the Owner and CEO of HALON Entertainment, a Previsualization (Previs) and VFX company, Daniel Gregoire has been the Previz Supervisor of some of the most exciting projects in the last five years culminating with the summer blockbuster, Indiana Jones 4.

In 1996, Gregoire started his career in San Diego as a TD for pre-rendered adventure video games and quickly moved to game cinematics. In late1999, he was offered an opportunity to work on final effects shots for Titan AE for POVDE and was also introduced to previz for Moulin Rouge. This introduction to previz led to Star Wars: Episode II at the start of 2000.

Spending four (4) years working for George Lucas and Rick McCallum at JAK Films (The production company for the Star Wars prequels) on Star Wars: Episode II, III and THX1138 – The George Lucas Directors Cut, Gregoire moved from Previz Artist to Previz Supervisor by 2001 and VFX Supervisor / Producer on THX1138 in 2003. Around 2004, he was introduced to Steven Spielberg, whom he worked with on several sequences for Episode III. This began a relationship with Spielberg as Gregoire went on to be the Previs Supervisor for War of the Worlds and then Indy 4. Gregoire has also worked with Directors M. Night Shyamalan, Mark Waters and Producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall.

During War of the Worlds, Gregoire started his own company, HALON Entertainment. Since then HALON has worked on films such as Transformers (pre Michael Bay), X-Men 3, Ghostrider, Eight Below, Evan Almighty, Rush Hour 3, The Kingdom, Spiderman 3, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Speedracer, Kung Fu Panda, Eagle Eye, Indiana Jones 4, GiJoe. Terminator 4, Gullivers Travels, Avatar, Red Tails and Avatar: The Last Airbender.

In addition to feature films, HALON has a long list of commercials and social projects to its credit working with such companies as Method and Shilo for clients such as Sears, Miller Lite, Toyota and Nike (to name a few). The public list of mentionable titles can be found at halon.com.

Beyond his film credits, Gregoire has consulted for many companies including DreamWorks Animation, Apple and AMD and is involved in the development of new media distribution projects. He has spoken at the keynote addresses for Steve Jobs and AMD CEO Hector Ruiz on multiple occasions as well as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

With a vision toward the future, Gregoire has started to move HALON into the fields of production development, direction and technology. Personally, he is moving towards directing and development and is looking forward to getting behind the camera.