Tim Miller (director)

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Tim Miller (* 1965 or 1966) is an American animator and film director .

Life

Miller graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University and began his animation film career as a compositor and 3D designer before joining Sony Pictures Imageworks as a character designer . In 1995 he founded the animation studio Blur Studio , which specializes in computer animation, with David Stinnet , and acts as its CEO and creative director.

Miller works in a variety of animation fields, including short and feature films, film trailers, commercials and computer games. For the short animation film Gopher Broke produced by Blur , he was nominated in 2005 for an Oscar in the category Best Animated Short Film. Miller was responsible for the visual special effects for computer games such as Hellgate: London (2007), Mass Effect 2 (2010) and Star Wars: The Old Republic (2011). He directed the short films Aunt Luisa (2002) and Rockfish (2003) and created the title sequence of the 2011 feature film Verblendung . His first feature-length film as a director was Deadpool in 2016 , which is based on the cartoon character Deadpool , created for Marvel Comics .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1995: Hideaway - Das Böse (Hideaway)
  • 2001: Soulkeeper
  • 2004: In the Rough
  • 2004: Gopher Broke
  • 2006: A Gentlemen's Duel
  • 2010: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World)
  • 2011: Verblendung (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo)
  • 2013: Thor - The Dark Kingdom (Thor: The Dark World)

As a director

Awards (selection)

  • 2005: Oscar nomination , Best Animated Short , for Gopher Broke
  • 2010: VES Award nomination for Outstanding Effects in a Video Game Trailer, Visual Effects Society Awards , for Mass Effect 2
  • 2011: VES Award nomination for Outstanding Effects in a Video Game Trailer, Visual Effects Society Awards, for Star Wars: The Old Republic

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Borys Kit: Did 'Deadpool' Director Tim Miller Leak the Test Footage That Launched a Franchise? . In: HollywoodReporter.com . February 15, 2016. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  2. ↑ Interview: Tim Miller . In: Tony Bancroft: Directing for Animation: Everything You Didn't Learn in Art School . CRC Press, 2013, unpaginated.
  3. ↑ Aly Semigran: Oscars 2012 Behind the Scenes: How the hypnotizing "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" opening credits came to be . ew.com, February 21, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Miller, Tim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American animator and film director
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century