Welcoming Jake Morrison as VFX Supervisor

ANNOUNCING NEW CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP WITH RENOWNED PRODUCTION VFX SUPERVISOR

We’re delighted to welcome Jake Morrison as VFX Supervisor!

Bringing over 25 years of experience, Jake is well-known for his collaborations with Marvel Studios, Warner Bros. and Disney. His impressive filmography includes Production VFX Supervisor and Second Unit Director credits on Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder for Marvel Studios. Prior to this, he served as Production VFX Supervisor on Disney’s Jungle Cruise and Thor: Ragnarok, for which he earned a 2018 Critic’s Choice Award nomination for Best Visual Effects!

His other Production VFX Supervisor credits include Ant-Man, for which he received a BAFTA-nomination for Best Special Visual Effects and Thor: The Dark World, which earned him a Saturn Award nomination. He has also worked as Second Unit VFX Supervisor on Marvel’s The Avengers and had supervisory roles on Iron Man 2 and Thor.

 
Talking about his new creative partnership with DNEG, Jake said:
“I have worked with DNEG many times over many years, and this extension of my relationship with them opens the possibilities of working in even closer creative collaboration with DNEG’s Oscar®-winning VFX teams. Designing, visualizing, shooting, and crafting never-before-seen visual effects sequences for interesting and diverse filmmakers is what we all show up to work for, and to be able to do this in cahoots with the world-class teams at DNEG feels like the perfect fit for me.”
DNEG Chairman and CEO, Namit Malhotra said:
“I am proud to announce this new creative partnership agreement with Jake and heartily welcome this new association. DNEG has had the pleasure of working with Jake in his capacity as client-side supervisor on many big visual effects shows, including Jungle Cruise, Ant-Man, and Thor: The Dark World, and I have long admired his outstanding creative leadership. Our new partnership will allow DNEG to take advantage of new and untapped opportunities and will provide Jake with preferential access and a close working relationship with some of the best visual effects teams in the business here at DNEG. I look forward to leveraging this new partnership as we plan for the rest of 2023 and beyond.”

 

Welcome to the team, Jake!

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