Erik Nash
Erik Nash (born December 21, 1959 ) is a VFX Supervisor who was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Visual Effects in 2005, 2012 and 2014 .
Life
He studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in visual communication . He then began working as a visual effects camera assistant at the special effects company Apogee, Inc. , where he worked on the movie Star Trek: The Movie . He then worked on various short films by Douglas Trumbull , with whom he had worked on Star Trek: The Movie .
In the early 1990s he was for a total of eight seasons in the series Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . In 1995 he switched to Digital Domain as a specialist in visual effects . In the following years he worked in this capacity on films such as Titanic , Armageddon - The Last Judgment and Red Planet . In 2005 he was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Visual Effects for the film I, Robot along with John Nelson, Andrew R. Jones and Joe Letteri . In 2012 he was nominated again for Real Steel in the same category . Another nomination followed in 2014 for Iron Man 3 . He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .
Filmography (selection)
- 1979: Star Trek: The Movie (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
- 1991–1994: Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
- 1993: The Coneheads (Coneheads)
- 1993: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- 1994: Terminal Velocity (Terminal Velocity)
- 1995: Apollo 13
- 1996: Out of Control (Chain Reaction)
- 1996: Always trouble with Sergeant Bilko (Sgt.Bilko)
- 1997: Kundun
- 1997: Titanic
- 1998: Armageddon - The Last Judgment (Armageddon)
- 1999: EDtv
- 2000: Red Planet
- 2000: O Brother, Where Art Thou? - A Mississippi Odyssey (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
- 2000: Rules - Seconds of Decision (Rules of Engagement)
- 2002: Star Trek: Nemesis
- 2002: xXx - Triple X (xXx)
- 2002: The Time Machine
- 2003: Secondhand Lions (Secondhand Lions)
- 2004: I, Robot
- 2005: Stealth - Under the Radar (Stealth)
- 2006: Die Super-Ex (My Super Ex-Girlfriend)
- 2007: Pirates of the Caribbean : At World's End
- 2011: Real Steel (Real Steel)
- 2012: Marvel's The Avengers (The Avengers)
- 2013: Iron Man 3
Web links
- Erik Nash in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b ERIK NASH, Visual Effects Supervisor, Digital Domain. 13th International Computer Graphics Conference, accessed January 14, 2013 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Nash, Erik |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American special effects artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1959 |