Academy award winning visual effects supervisor Eric Barba will join Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) as Creative Director. Barba will be supervising and providing creative oversight for the projects handled by the Vancouver Studio.
Eric Barba, was known for the digital human work that helped actor Brad Pitt appear to age in reverse in David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and was thus honoured with the Academy Award and BAFTA for the same. Now at ILM, he will work closely with ILM Vancouver’s executive in charge, Randal Shore, and collaborate with ILM’s global team, with bases in London, San Francisco and Singapore.
Having supervised visual effects on various projects like Fincher’s Zodiac, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl; Joseph Kosinski’s TRON: Legacy and Oblivion, Barba spent most of the past two decades at Digital Domain. He served as VFX supervisor since 1999 and chief creative officer for the past two years at Digital Domain.
ILM current projects include Duncan Jones’ Warcraft, Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets and Dave Green’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, as well as the Gareth Edwards-helmed Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars: Episode VIII with director Rian Johnson. Members of the ILM team are currently nominated for the VFX Oscar for their work on The Revenant and Star Wars: The Force Awakens which recently won the BAFTA.
