A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Born:
January 2, 1975
Erik Winquist (born January 2, 1975) is an American-New Zealander visual effects supervisor. He is best known for his work on three prominent film franchises featuring large computer-generated animal effects: Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005), Planet of the Apes prequel films, and Rampage (2018). Erik Winquist was nominated at the 87th Academy Awards in the category of Best Visual Effects. He was nominated for an Academy Award, along with Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon, and Joe Letteri, for the film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. They led a team of roughly 850 people who designed and created all the apes, the digital set extensions, environments, and the effects for the film. Winquist handled pre-production and second-unit photography. He also received a BAFTA nomination for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes in the same year. Description above from the Wikipedia article Erik Winquist, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
2D Sequence Supervisor:
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Compositing Artist:
1999 Forces of Nature
2000 Mission: Impossible II
2000 The Legend of Bagger Vance
2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001 Evolution
2001 The Mexican
2002 Minority Report
2002 People I Know
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003 Hulk
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Compositing Supervisor:
1999 Forces of Nature
2000 Mission: Impossible II
2000 The Legend of Bagger Vance
2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001 Evolution
2001 The Mexican
2002 Minority Report
2002 People I Know
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003 Hulk
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004 I, Robot
2005 King Kong
2006 X-Men: The Last Stand
2010 The A-Team
Visual Effects:
1999 Forces of Nature
2000 Mission: Impossible II
2000 The Legend of Bagger Vance
2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001 Evolution
2001 The Mexican
2002 Minority Report
2002 People I Know
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003 Hulk
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004 I, Robot
2005 King Kong
2006 X-Men: The Last Stand
2010 The A-Team
2024 The Moon Is Upside Down
Visual Effects Supervisor:
1999 Forces of Nature
2000 Mission: Impossible II
2000 The Legend of Bagger Vance
2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001 Evolution
2001 The Mexican
2002 Minority Report
2002 People I Know
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003 Hulk
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004 I, Robot
2005 King Kong
2006 X-Men: The Last Stand
2007 The Water Horse
2008 Jumper
2009 Avatar
2010 The A-Team
2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2014 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2016 Spectral
2017 War for the Planet of the Apes
2018 Rampage
2022 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2024 Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
2024 The Moon Is Upside Down
2025 Predator: Badlands
Visual Effects Technical Director:
1999 Forces of Nature
2000 Mission: Impossible II
2000 The Legend of Bagger Vance
2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001 Evolution
2001 The Mexican
2002 Minority Report
2002 People I Know
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003 Hulk
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004 I, Robot
2005 King Kong
2006 X-Men: The Last Stand
2007 The Water Horse
2008 Jumper
2009 Avatar
2010 The A-Team
2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2014 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2016 Spectral
2017 War for the Planet of the Apes
2018 Rampage
2022 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2024 Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
2024 The Moon Is Upside Down
2025 Predator: Badlands
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