Jim Berney
Jim Berney is a special effects artist who in 2006 for the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe in the category Best visual effects for the Oscar nomination.
Life
He received his undergraduate degrees in computer science and economics from the University of California, Irvine , studied computer architecture at the Royal Stockholm University of Technology, and received his masters degree in computer science from California Polytechnic State University , San Luis Obispo . He then worked for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for three years as an ADA programmer. He then moved to the visual effects company Metrolight , for which he worked on films such as Batman Forever , Mortal Kombat and Alert: Red 2 .
In 1996 he joined Sony Pictures Imageworks as a VFX Supervisor , where he worked on such films as Starship Troopers , Stuart Little , Evolution and Matrix Reloaded . In 2005, he was the visual effects director on The Chronicles of Narnia: The King of Narnia . For this film he was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Visual Effects in 2006 together with Dean Wright , Bill Westenhofer , and Scott Farrar . In 2012 he moved to Digital Domain as head of the Florida studio .
Filmography (special effects)
- 1995: Batman Forever
- 1995: Mortal Kombat
- 1995: Red Alert 2 (Under Siege 2: Dark Territory)
- 1996: Marvin the Martian in the Third Dimension
- 1997: Starship Troopers
- 1997: Contact
- 1997: Anaconda
- 1998: Godzilla
- 1999: Stuart Little
- 2000: Hollow Man - Invisible Danger (Hollow Man)
- 2001: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- 2001: evolution
- 2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)
- 2002: Men In Black 2 (Men in Black II)
- 2003: Matrix Reloaded (The Matrix Reloaded)
- 2003: Matrix Revolutions (The Matrix Revolutions)
- 2004: The Polar Express (The Polar Express)
- 2005: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
- 2007: I Am Legend
- 2008: Eagle Eye - Out of Control (Eagle Eye)
- 2011: Green Lantern
Web links
- Jim Berney in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Profile of Jim Berney at Imageworks. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 19, 2013 ; accessed on January 20, 2013 . 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.
- ^ A b Digital Domain Media Group Hires Sony Pictures Imageworks Veteran Jim Berney to Head Florida Studio. BusinessWire. July 23, 2012, accessed January 20, 2013 .
- ↑ David Parrish, Inspired 3D: Lighting and Compositing: An Interview with Jim Berney. VFXWorld, May 6, 2004, accessed January 20, 2013 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Berney, Jim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Special effects artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |