Christopher Townsend

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Visual Effects

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Male

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Christopher Townsend

Biography

Christopher Townsend is a visual effects supervisor. He has worked in the visual effects industry for nearly 30 years. For over a decade, he was an artist and supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic, and in 2007 became a freelance visual effects supervisor. He worked on Journey to the Center of the Earth, the first ever stereoscopic motion picture shot and released digitally, The Wolverine, Ninja Assassin, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, and Captain America: The First Avenger. He was nominated for a BAFTA and an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for his work on Iron Man 3, oversaw nearly 3000 shots on Avengers: Age of...

Acting

2023

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Loki Season 2

as Self - Visual Effects Supervisor / Second Unit Director

Production

2011

Captain America: The First Avenger

as Visual Effects Supervisor

2019

Captain Marvel

as Visual Effects Supervisor

2017

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

as Visual Effects Supervisor

2013

Iron Man 3

as Visual Effects Supervisor

2009

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

as Visual Effects Supervisor

2008

Journey to the Center of the Earth

as Visual Effects Supervisor

2021

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

as Visual Effects Supervisor

2015

Avengers: Age of Ultron

as Visual Effects Supervisor

2009

Ninja Assassin

as Visual Effects Supervisor

2005

The Island

as Digital Supervisor

2004

The Day After Tomorrow

as CG Supervisor

2003

Hulk

as CG Supervisor

1995

Congo

as CG Artist

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