A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Andrew Daniel Cox
Birthplace:
Waco, Texas, USA
Born:
January 26, 1979
Dan Cox is a visual effects supervisor at Weta FX. He is the on-set Visual Effects Supervisor on the Avatar sequels, where he is leveraging his 15 years of experience in both game and film visual effects, working with directors to help create new virtual production techniques and workflows. The real-time nature of the virtual set production environment taps into his knowledge of real-time engine/pre-rendered pipelines and how to connect them to modern film VFX workflows. Raised in Kingsport, Tennessee, he attended Sullivan South High School. Graduated in 1997. Cox received his BS degree from East Tennessee State University in Johnson City in 2002, and he received his MFA from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 2005. He is the son of David and Sue Cox, and his brothers are David, Brad, Mitch, and Aaron. Through his time at Wētā FX, ILM, and Sony Imageworks, Dan has worked on blockbuster franchises like The Avengers, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Avatar. He has also contributed to the VFX of multiple full-length animated features, including Happy Feet and Hotel Transylvania. Dan is an active member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as well as the VES. In 2010, he won a Visual Effects Society Award for his role in creating the jungles of Pandora for Avatar. Dan’s storytelling work goes beyond feature films and includes supervising on the animated shorts that helped launch the highly successful game Overwatch, as well as cinematics for the franchises of World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, Heroes of the Storm, and Hearthstone. Information above via their homepage.
CG Supervisor:
2009 Avatar
2010 Gulliver's Travels
2010 The A-Team
2011 The Adventures of Tintin
Compositing Artist:
2006 Poseidon
2007 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2009 Avatar
2010 Gulliver's Travels
2010 The A-Team
2011 The Adventures of Tintin
2012 Hotel Transylvania
Modeling:
2005 The Producers
2006 Poseidon
2007 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2009 Avatar
2010 Gulliver's Travels
2010 The A-Team
2011 The Adventures of Tintin
2012 Hotel Transylvania
VFX Lighting Artist:
2005 The Producers
2006 Poseidon
2007 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2009 Avatar
2010 Gulliver's Travels
2010 The A-Team
2011 Cowboys & Aliens
2011 The Adventures of Tintin
2012 Hotel Transylvania
2012 The Avengers
Visual Effects Supervisor:
2005 The Producers
2006 Poseidon
2007 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2009 Avatar
2010 Gulliver's Travels
2010 The A-Team
2011 Cowboys & Aliens
2011 The Adventures of Tintin
2012 Hotel Transylvania
2012 The Avengers
2022 Avatar: The Way of Water
2022 Black Adam
2022 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022 Kimi
2025 Avatar: Fire and Ash
2025 Captain America: Brave New World
2029 Avatar 4
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.