Photo: Brian Van't Hul

Raised in Bozeman, MT; educated at Montana State University. Visual effects supervisor and cinematographer at Weta Digital in New Zealand. His feature credits include TIM BURTON'S THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993, matchmover), FORREST GUMP (1994, computer graphics artist at ILM), CONTACT (1997, sequence supervisor), THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy (2001-03, vfx cinematographer), MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (2003, miniatures crew leader), I, ROBOT (2004, vfx supervisor) and KING KONG (2005, visual effects on-set supervisor).  Best Achievement in Visual Effects 2005: KING KONG (w. Joe Letteri, Christian Rivers & Richard Taylor 1 nomination, 1 Award