Animator and Digital Painter Adam Howard Made Phasers Pop on Star Trek: The Next Generation | CGI Fridays - Episode 6

CGI Fridays – A Visual Effects Interview Podcast (Season 2 Coming Soon)

From a firefighter’s mosaic to phasers and photon torpedoes, digital painter and animator Adam Howard reveals a passion for pyro in CGI Fridays Episode 6. It’s easy to drop meaningless platitudes about the power of teachers to change lives, but as Adam Howard tells Ed Kramer in CGI Fridays Episode 6, his entire career has one man at the heart of it – a teacher prepared to go the extra mile.

This interview covers the first half of Adam Howard's career, from his beginnings in Australian television to his four-time Emmy Award-winning work on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager with Digital Magic, and finishing with James Cameron's Titanic.

His full IMDb lists his credits as

Axanar (visual effects supervisor) (announced)

Into the Wolves Den (visual effects supervisor) (pre-production)

The Black Demon (visual effects supervisor) (post-production)

Servant (TV Series) (Post VFX Supervisor - 1 episode)

- Episode #4.1 (2023) ... (Post VFX Supervisor: Powerhouse VFX)

Queer as Folk (TV Series) (visual effects supervisor - 1 episode)

- Babylon (2022) ... (visual effects supervisor)

Lady of the Manor (visual effects supervisor)

Fear of Rain (visual effects supervisor)

The Hurricane Heist (visual effects supervisor)

Powers (TV Series) (visual effects supervisor - 10 episodes)

Pee-wee's Big Holiday (visual effects supervisor)

Self/less (visual effects supervisor)

Away & Back (TV Movie) (on-set visual effects coordinator)

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (visual effects supervisor - uncredited)

My Mistress (additional visual effects)

Prelude to Axanar (Short) (on-set visual effects supervisor)

Cosmos (TV Mini Series documentary) (visual effects consultant - 13 episodes)

So You Think You Can Dance (TV Series) (visual effects artist - 1 episode)

American Idol: The Search for a Superstar (TV Series) (visual effects artist - 16 episodes)

Last Vegas (visual effects supervisor)

The Internship (visual effects consultant)

The 85th Academy Awards (TV Special) (visual effects supervisor - segment "Sally Field and sock puppet sketches", uncredited)

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (visual effects supervisor)

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (visual effects supervisor)

Tower Heist (visual effects consultant)

Unknown (visual effects supervisor)

Season of the Witch (visual effects supervisor: additional photography, Shreveport)

The Social Network (visual effects supervisor: Outback Post)

Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey (Video short) (visual effects supervisor)

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (visual effects supervisor: CafeFx)

Punisher: War Zone (on-set visual effects supervisor: Pixel Magic)

Rush Hour 3 (co-visual effects supervisor)

Moola (visual effects supervisor)

Eragon (sabre artist: ILM)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (sabre artist: ILM)

Mission: Impossible III (sabre artist: ILM)

Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (sabre artist: ILM)

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (digital artist: ILM)

Jarhead (sabre artist: ILM)

The Island (sabre artist: ILM)

War of the Worlds (sabre artist: ILM)

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (sabre artist: ILM)

xXx²: The Next Level (sabre artist: ILM)

The Pacifier (sabre artist:...