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American inventor, businessman and filmmaker From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chris Watts (born June 16, 1965), is an American inventor, businessman, filmmaker, and visual effects supervisor.
Chris Watts | |
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Born | Palm Springs, California, United States | June 16, 1965
Occupation(s) | President of bake visual effects inc., visual effects supervisor, filmmaker |
Years active | 1985–present |
Awards | Satellite Award for Best Visual Effects VES Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Music Video |
Website | Bake VFX |
Currently president of Bake Visual Effects, Inc. located in Los Angeles, California, Watts began his film career with Dream Quest Images in 1989. Watts originated and implemented the digital intermediate process in 1995 when filming the New Line Cinema feature Pleasantville (1998).[1]
Later in 2004, he pioneered the use of digital still cameras as a high resolution replacement for film cameras on Tim Burton's stop motion animated movie Corpse Bride.[2] Watts gained wide recognition with the 2007 box office hit 300, a Warner Bros. action film adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by writer-artist Frank Miller of Dark Horse Comics.
He later went on supervising the 2009 fantasy film Where the Wild Things Are.
Year | Film | Credit |
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1998 | Pleasantville | Visual effects supervisor |
1999 | The Insider | Visual effects supervisor |
2000 | Magicians | Visual effects supervisor |
2002 | Kung Pow! Enter the Fist | Visual effects supervisor |
2002 | American Icarus | Visual effects consultant |
2003 | Looney Tunes: Back in Action | Visual effects supervisor |
2004 | The Day After Tomorrow | Visual effects supervisor at Hydraulx |
2004 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Compositor |
2004 | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | Digital artist |
2004 | Fat Albert | Digital artist |
2005 | Corpse Bride | Visual effects consultant |
2005 | Venom | Visual effects supervisor at Hydraulx |
2005 | The Fog | Visual effects supervisor at Hydraulx |
2006 | 300 (IMAX) | Visual effects supervisor |
2007 | Meet Bill | Visual effects supervisor, compositor |
2008 | Street Kings | Visual effects supervisor |
2008 | Disaster Movie | Visual effects supervisor |
2009 | Tales of the Black Freighter | Production designer |
2009 | Case 39 | Visual effects supervisor |
2009 | Where the Wild Things Are (IMAX) | Visual effects supervisor |
2010 | Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove | Visual effects consultant |
2011 | Detention | Visual effects supervisor, music licensing contract administrator |
2013 | Gravity | Visual effects consultant |
2013 | Horns | 2nd unit visual effects supervisor |
TBA | Akira | Visual effects supervisor |
TBA | Paradise Lost | Visual effects consultant |
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