About Warwick Soar | 30+ Years in Media & Technology

Warwick Soar is a South African digital media producer, creative technologist, and founder. His work sits where production craft, technical fluency, and practical systems meet.

A practical creative life

Warwick has spent decades learning new media by using them: from early computer graphics and technical design to video production, motion graphics, 3D, IT systems, and AI-assisted workflows. The medium changes. The instinct stays the same: understand how it works, test its limits, and turn it into something useful.

That approach has shaped a career across creative production, business building, technical problem-solving, and teaching. It also extends beyond the screen into physical making, prototyping, 3D printing, radio control, motorcycles, and the systems of a working home and studio.

Founder and operator

Warwick is the founder of Pulse Works, a boutique digital media production studio, and OneNode, a practical IT support and digital operations service for small businesses. Both ventures reflect the same principle: clear thinking should lead to work that can actually be used.

A practical creative life

The medium changes. The instinct stays the same.

Warwick’s documented career begins in the mid-1990s, when desktop tools brought his visual, spatial, and technical interests into one medium. Since then the tools have changed repeatedly; the habit of learning the missing part and carrying work from idea to delivery has not.

That range is not a collection of unrelated jobs. It is one practice moving through independent production, agency systems, stereoscopic cinema, field media, business ownership, teaching, infrastructure, and AI-assisted work.

Career turning points

The moments that changed the shape of the work.

1994–1996

The desktop became the medium

Design study, CorelDRAW, CAD, early animation, and an analogue-to-digital corporate production brought visual thinking and technical problem-solving together. When formal study ended, practical production became the school.

1996

Pulse Graphics made breadth a practice

Independent work became an owner-operated studio spanning graphics, animation, video, presentations, web, technical support, and the commercial work needed to sustain it.

Late 2003

A client relationship became employment

Moving into Kashan Advertising placed that multidisciplinary range inside an agency. The role added sustained client service, coding, multimedia development, web administration, and responsibility for systems and networks.

2006

Broad capability found technical depth

At Haptics, Warwick became a Stereoscopic/3D Technical Director and Animator. Creative production expanded into stereoscopic acquisition, projection, cinema delivery, 3D systems, and the troubleshooting required to make emerging technology dependable. View the period evidence.

2009–2012

Stereoscopic production went global

The FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour and related Coca-Cola work joined technical direction, animation direction, stereoscopic production, cinema mastering, and international exhibition support. The surviving record follows the work beyond the studio into screenings and tour environments across Africa and the Middle East. See the FIFA production record.

2013–2014

From specialist systems to field media

DO IT NOW Magazine moved the work into a faster editorial environment: shooting, editing, photography, motion graphics, publishing, media operations, and technical support. It was a short but important bridge between specialist employment and renewed independence. See evidence from the period.

July 2014

Returning to ownership

Pulse Works reorganised nearly two decades of experience into a new production company. Earlier employers Haptics and Kashan became clients, while new agency relationships widened the work across cameras, post-production, motion, events, and delivery systems. Explore the production foundation.

Since 2018

Trust became repeat infrastructure

The PriFactor relationship shifted Pulse Works from isolated deliverables toward continuing responsibility for the visual-media layer of live and hybrid events: screen systems, motion, playback-ready assets, coverage, and post-production. Read the relationship.

2022–2024

Becoming the learner, then the teacher

AnimSchool and historical freelance 3D engagements renewed a long-held animation direction through structured practice. Teaching Camera Studies at Oakfields College then required decades of experience to be selected, explained, assessed, and made useful to somebody else.

2025

IT became a business in its own right

OneNode gave a distinct commercial form to the infrastructure, support, web, security, and systems work present since Pulse Graphics. It is a continuation made legible, not a sudden change of field. View the service platform.

November 2025

Documentary heritage became a company

As co-founder of Legacy Boards, Warwick brought interview-led filmmaking, technical production, and patient visual storytelling into a company preserving the memories of South African rugby figures. The role formalised something present throughout the career: using production systems to protect stories that matter. Explore Legacy Boards.

Projects as evidence

The work proves the eras. It does not replace them.

Individual films, photographs, technical builds, and event systems belong inside this career history as evidence of changing capability and responsibility.

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Founder and operator

Capability becomes useful through delivery.

Explore the businesses Warwick has built, or start with the work itself.

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