Erik Winquist
Erik Winquist (born January 2, 1975) is an American-New Zealander visual effects supervisor. He is best known for his work on three prominent film franchises featuring large computer-generated animal effects: Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005), Planet of the Apes prequel films, and Rampage (2018). Erik Winquist was nominated at the 87th Academy Awards in the category of Best Visual Effects. He was nominated for an Academy Award, along with Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon, and Joe Letteri, for the film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. They led a team of roughly 850 people who designed and created all the apes, the digital set extensions, environments, and the effects for the film. Winquist handled pre-production and second-unit photography. He also received a BAFTA nomination for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes in the same year. Description above from the Wikipedia article Erik Winquist, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (27)
Predator: Badlands
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Rampage
War for the Planet of the Apes
Spectral
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
The A-Team
Avatar
Jumper
X-Men: The Last Stand
King Kong
I, Robot
Hulk
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Minority Report
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
People I Know
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Evolution
The Mexican
Mission: Impossible II
The Legend of Bagger Vance
