Masterful: Dan Abrams


Dan Abrams
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Dan Abrams graduated as an industrial designer in 2000 from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and began working as a senior artist at Sony Pictures Imageworks the same year. There, he closely contributed to several Academy Awards before winning the Visual Effects Society Award for his groundbreaking work in virtual environments for feature films.



At Digital Domain, Dan acted as CG Supervisor where he helped rebuild the company under new ownership, and his work on Benjamin Button helped garner 2 Academy Awards, 1 Bafta, and 12 Visual Effects Soceity Awards. He co-authored a Siggraph paper for his designs on physically based rendering of CG humans.

He has also supervised commercials with directors David Fincher and Joseph Kosinski while on the side assembling his own treatments and director's reel. His personal work as a graphic designer and photographer has been featured in numerous publications and galleries in Germany, Japan, Canada, and America.