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 | Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
Sony Pictures Imageworks
As the Senior Visual Effects Supervisor on his most recent project, Beowulf, Jerome Chen was responsible for the creation of all of the film’s digital imagery and its components, including animation, character modeling, lighting, frame composition, color, texture and shading. This involved working directly with Robert Zemeckis to deliver the director’s vision to the screen and combined the artistry and technological knowledge of his crew at Sony Pictures Imageworks to create the “world” of the film, including its style and design. Chen also oversaw the use of Imageworks’ patented Imagemotion™ performance capture system to bring Beowulf to life.
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Prior to Beowulf, Chen worked with Zemeckis as Senior Visual Effects Supervisor on The Polar Express.
Chen previously applied his outstanding talents on the two films featuring Stuart Little, the mouse who became the first all-digital character to star in a live action film. Chen earned his first Academy Award® nomination for the groundbreaking visual effects in Stuart Little, recognizing Chen’s advances in the development and advancement of digital imagery techniques including innovations in digital lighting, compositing, fur and cloth, accomplishments. His work on Stuart Little also was awarded with a Monitor Award for Best Electronic Effects in a Theatrical Release. For Stuart Little 2, Chen invented the complex feather systems and perfected the photo-real integration for the film, which won the Prix du Long Metrage (Best Feature Film) at the Imagina Awards in 2003.
His additional film credits include Godzilla (ANNIE Award nomination for Best Special Effects Animation in a Feature Film), Contact (Monitor Award for Best Electronic Effects in a Theatrical Release), James And The Giant Peach, The Ghost And The Darkness and In The Line Of Fire.
Chen joined Sony Pictures Imageworks in 1992 as one of the company’s original employees. He has worked his way up through the production ranks as a digital artist, senior animator, computer graphics supervisor, digital effects supervisor to his current position of senior visual effects supervisor. He is an acknowledged expert in the technique of integrating digital imagery with live action, especially in the area of photorealistic effects, and is known internationally for his presentations on the topics of digital character creation and imagery techniques.
Currently, Chen is working on an untitled thriller project for Sony Pictures which he will write and direct.
A resident of Manhattan Beach, Calif., Chen studied visual arts and English literature at the University of Maryland at College Park.
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