Top 10 Visual Effects Artists Of Hollywood

It’s the visual effects artist who adds the magic to scenes and makes them with the eye. Visual effects help us to completely change how we perceive a scene. It might be difficult to realise that by just watching the movie but it would not have anything special or pleasant if there were no visual effects in the scene. The visual effect artists work really hard to get it straight and bring the film to its presentable format. There are so many visual effects artists who work day and night to produce the best film in front of you. Here the top 10 visual effects artists present in Hollywood.

1. John Nelson

John Nelson is a Visual effects supervisor and a 1976 graduate of the University of Michigan. He won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 73rd Academy Awards, for his work on the film Gladiator. He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for supervising the visual effects in the films I, Robot and Iron Man.

2. Chris Lawrence

Chris Lawrence is a renowned visual effects supervisor. Lawrence and his fellow visual effects artists received an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for the 2013 film Gravity. In 2016, Lawrence received his second Academy Award nomination for his work on the film The Martian at the 88th Academy Awards.

3. Kevin Mack

Mack has stood out as an extraordinary visual effects artist of our generation. He won at the 71st Academy Awards in the category of Best Visual Effects for his work on What Dreams May Come. He shared his Oscar with Nicholas Brooks, Joel Hynek and Stuart Robertson.

4. Douglas Trumbull

He is an American film director, special effects supervisor, and inventor. He contributed to, or was responsible for, the special photographic effects of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner and The Tree of Life, and directed the movies such as Silent running and Brainstorm.

5. Gregory Jein

Greg Jein is a Chinese American model designer who creates miniatures for use in the special effects portions of many films and television series. He has been doing so since the 1970s. Jein has twice been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for his work on the films Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and 1941 (1979).

6. John Evans

Evans is an acknowledged special effects artist. He was nominated in the 52^nd Academy awards in the category of Best Visual Effects. He was nominated for his work on the film Moonraker, which he shared with Paul Wilson. He has by far worked on 40 films which include 5 James Bond films, batman and Gladiator.

7. Derek Meddings

Meddings  was a British film and television special effects designer, initially noted for his work on the “Supermarionation” TV puppet series produced by Gerry Anderson, and later for the 1970s and 1980s James Bond and Superman film series. Hollywood always remembers Meddings as an excellent visual effects artist.

8. D. Flowers

Flowers was an American special effects artist who was perhaps best known for his work on Tora! Tora! Tora! for which he won an Academy Award as well. He was born in Texas, but raised in Oklahoma. After high school, he went to California. There he obtained a job at MGM Studios as a “studio handyman”. He served in the US Navy in World War II on the USS Saranac (AO-74) in the Pacific War. After being discharged from the service he stayed in California and went back to work with a Hollywood studio. He died at age 84 of complications of emphysema and pneumonia.

9. John Charles Dykstra

John Dykstra is an American special effects artist, pioneer in the development of the use of computers in filmmaking and recipient of three Academy Awards, among many other awards and prizes. He was one of the original founders of Industrial Light & Magic, the special effects and computer graphics division of Lucasfilm. He is well known as the special effects lead on the original Star Wars, helping bring the original visuals for light sabers, space battles between X-wings and TIE fighters, and Force powers to the screen. He also led special effects on many other movies, including Batman Forever, Batman and Robin, Stuart Little, X-Men: First Class, Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2.

10. Richard Yuricich

Richard Yuricich is a three time Academy Award nominated special effects artist. His brother Matthew Yuricich was a special effects artist as well. He has shown outstanding work in many films and received positive critical acclaim across the globe as well.

If you want a successful career in visual effects and if you also dream of becoming a VFX artist, it’s no toughie. All you need to do is take up a good animation course and master the skill of visual effects. Doing that even you can get a hand in this field and succeed simultaneously.