 In 1991, he began creating visual effects for film director Gus Van Sant, starting with "My Own Private Idaho" (1991).White went on to be Visual Effects Supervisor on Van Sant's "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues" (1993), "Paranoid Park" (2007), "First Kiss" (2007), "Milk" (2008) and "Restless" (2011), as well as the "death eye sequence" for "To Die For", visual effects supervisor and titles designer on Dustin Lance Black's "Virginia", and title effects supervisor on director Todd Haynes' film, "I'm Not There".In 2020, Chel oversaw the animated sequences for David Oyelowo's feature film, The Water Man.