Erik Winquist

Personal Info

Know For

Visual Effects

Gender

Male

Birthday

1975-01-02 (50 years old)

Place of Birth

Evanston, Illinois, USA

Erik Winquist

Biography

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...

Production

2014

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

as Visual Effects Supervisor

2011

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

as Visual Effects Supervisor

2022

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

as Visual Effects Supervisor

2016

Spectral

as Visual Effects Supervisor

2024

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

as Visual Effects Supervisor

2008

Jumper

as Visual Effects Supervisor

2005

King Kong

as Compositing Supervisor

2004

I, Robot

as Compositing Supervisor

2002

People I Know

as Compositing Artist

2000

The Legend of Bagger Vance

as Compositing Artist

2001

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

as Compositing Artist

2003

Hulk

as Compositing Artist

2001

The Mexican

as Compositing Artist

1999

Forces of Nature

as Compositing Artist

2001

Evolution

as Compositing Artist

2002

2006

X-Men: The Last Stand

as Compositing Supervisor

2002

Minority Report

as Compositing Artist

2012

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

as Visual Effects Technical Director

2000

Mission: Impossible II

as Compositing Artist

2022

2007

The Water Horse

as Visual Effects Supervisor

2024

The Moon Is Upside Down

as Visual Effects

2017

War for the Planet of the Apes

as Visual Effects Supervisor

2018

Rampage

as Visual Effects Supervisor

2009

Avatar

as Visual Effects Supervisor

2010

The A-Team

as Compositing Supervisor

2025

Predator: Badlands

as Visual Effects Supervisor

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