Loni is an award winning commercial and television producer-director and co-founder of Zoic Studios. His visual effects shot design for the television series Firefly and Battlestar Galactica has creatively inspired the look of modern visual effects cinematography. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Literature in 1995. After graduating from college in 1996, Loni went to work for mentor Joss Whedon on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and Serenity as a Visual Effects Supervisor. He won an Emmy for Firefly.