Many years in CGI production, including 12 years at INDUSTRIAL LIGHT + MAGIC. Senior Technical Director / Sequence Supervisor on five films nominated for Visual Effects OSCARs, including the OSCAR winner of 2006, PIRATES of the CARIBBEAN 2: DEAD MAN'S CHEST. Other nominees were TWISTER, The PERFECT STORM, STAR WARS Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and STAR WARS Episode II: Attack of the Clones. Sequence Supervisor for Droid Factory and End Battle shots in STAR WARS Episode II: ATTACK of the CLONES. Sequence Supervisor for Scarab Beetle shots in THE MUMMY and THE MUMMY RETURNS. Sequence Supervisor for the Rock Monster shots in GALAXY QUEST. Prior to ILM, worked for Kleiser - Walczak Studios on STARGATE, CLEAR and PRESENT DANGER, the LUXOR LAS VEGAS ridefilms (with Douglas Trumbull), and the COLUMBIA PICTURES "Lady with a Torch" logo, seen at the beginning of every Columbia Pictures movie. Before working on movies, spent 12 years in Hollywood, New York, and Atlanta as Senior Computer Graphics Artist at leading video post-production companies. Also worked for NASA at Johnson Space Center in Houston, creating a computer-animated Mars Rover Mission. Frequent author and lecturer at SIGGRAPH and internationally on the History of Computer Graphics. Featured in the book "CG 101." Guest lecturer at Denver STARFEST 2008, Breckenridge Film Festival, Boulder Contemporary Art Museum, Denver Art Institute, Media Guest-of-Honor at MileHiCon 2008
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Ed Kramer is a VFX Supervisor and 3D Artist currently living in Denver, Colorado. He spent 12 years as Senior Technical Director at ILM and has 24 feature film credits, including STAR WARS Episodes I, II, and III, and OSCAR-winner Pirates of the Caribbean II.
Feature Film (studio), Feature Film (independent), Commercials, Television Programming, Corporate Video, Educational/Training Video, Special Venue Video, Documentaries
After Effects, Maya, Vue products, Photoshop, Illustrator
