Charmaine Chan
Industrial Light & Magic, Visual Effects Supervisor
Charmaine Chan is a Visual Effects Supervisor at ILM bringing over 17 years of experience in the industry. She offers a unique blend of leadership, technical, and creative skill sets that she’s honed in post and on-set supervision. Chan recently served as VFX Supervisor on Gareth Edwards’ "The Creator" which won the VES Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature alongside a BAFTA nomination. She is currently supervising on the Star Wars series, "The Acolyte."
Based in ILM's London office, she played a crucial role in developing both the virtual production and episodic teams. Chan has contributed as the Compositing and Virtual Production Supervisor on the Emmy and BAFTA-nominated Star Wars series, "Andor". She was also part of the original ILM StageCraft "Brain Bar" team for the Emmy Award-winning series, "The Mandalorian," where her contributions innovated real-time rendering on the StageCraft platform. She has continued to help develop and progress StageCraft on other projects such as Oscar-nominated Matt Reeves’ "The Batman" and Nia DaCosta’s "The Marvels."
Industrial Light & Magic
Founded in 1975 by George Lucas, ILM is the leading effects facility in the world, serving the motion picture, commercial production, and attraction industries. ILM has created visual effects for over 450 feature films and has played a key role in seven of the top 10 worldwide box-office hits of all time and has contributed to 25 of the top 50. ILM has set the standard for visual effects, creating some of the most stunning images in the history of film. At the forefront of the digital revolution, the company continues to break new ground in visual effects, VR, AR, and Immersive Cinema. The company has been awarded 15 Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects and received 34 Academy Awards for Scientific and Technical Achievement.