Dan Kaufman

Dan Kaufman is a special effects artist , who in 2010 for the film District 9 in the category visual effects best for the Oscar nomination.

Life

He grew up in Newport Beach , California and studied computer science and electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley . During his studies, he worked as a developer of graphical user interfaces for software for Commodore 64 computers. He then worked for the computer game developer and publisher Spectrum HoloByte as a programmer and project manager. This was followed by a job at the software company Pacific Interactive .

He got his first job in the field of film animation through the wife of Richard Hollander , the founder of the visual effects company VFIX . He stayed with VFIX until 1996, working on films such as Outbreak , Power Rangers - The Movie , Operation: Broken Arrow and the television series The Shining . He went to Australia for a few months to work on the thriller Dark City . After returning to Los Angeles, he worked for various visual effects companies such as Cinesite , Digital Domain , and Sony Pictures Imageworks . In 2002 he finally went to CIS Hollywood , where he was director of digital effects on films such as Matrix Revolutions , The Core and X-Men: The Last Stand . In 2009, he joined Image Engine as the visual effects director to work on the science fiction film District 9 . Together with Peter Muyzers , Robert Habros and Matt Aitken , he was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Visual Effects for this film .

Filmography

• 1995: Outbreak (Outbreak)
• 1995: Power Rangers - The Movie (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie)
• 1996: Mission: Free the pipe! (Down Periscope)
• 1996: Operation: Broken Arrow (Broken Arrow)
• 1997: The Shining (3 episodes)
• 1997: The Relic (The Relic)
• 1998: Dark City
• 1999: End of Days - night without morning (End of Days)
• 1999: The Astronaut's Wife - Evil has a new face
• 1999: Virus - Ship of No Return (Virus)
• 2000: Castaway - Lost (Castaway)
• 2000: What Lies Beneath (What Lies Beneath)
• 2000: Supernova
• 2001: Stormrider
• 2002: Stuart Little 2
• 2003: Matrix Revolutions (The Matrix Revolutions)
• 2003: Scary Movie 3
• 2003: The Core - The inner core (The Core)
• 2003: The Haunted Mansion (The Haunted Mansion)
• 2005: Formosa
• 2006: They Were Heroes (We Are Marshall)
• 2006: Smokin 'Aces
• 2006: X- Men: The Last Stand
• 2006: Poseidon
• 2007: Ocean's 13th
• 2008: The Express
• 2008: A Tantalizing Game (Leatherheads)
• 2009: District 9
• 2011: In Time - Your time is running out (In Time)

Web links

• Dan Kaufman in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Barbara Robertson: CGSociety: Artist Profile. (No longer available online.) September 3, 2009, archived from the original on February 1, 2013 ; accessed on January 19, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.