Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Ken Hahn is currently serving as digital effects supervisor on Hancock. Hahn is overseeing a crew of nearly one hundred that specialize in effects from digital doubles of Will Smith and Charlize Theron to virtual environments, large scale weather and mass destruction effects.

Prior to Spider-Man™ 3, Hahn was the digital effects supervisor on the Nicolas Cage film Ghost Rider, bringing significant advancement in digital fire to the big screen.

Hahn was a senior CG supervisor on Spider-Man™ 2, which was awarded the 2005 Academy Award® for Achievement in Visual Effects, overseeing numerous sequences including Spider-Man™ and Doc Ock battling on top of an elevated New York train. He also was a senior CG supervisor on the Academy Award®-nominated Spider-Man™, and was responsible for the construction of the 3D virtual cityscapes among other achievements.

Earlier in his Imageworks career, Hahn led an effects crew to create an anatomically accurate digital version of Kevin Bacon for Columbia Pictures’ Hollow Man, which was nominated for a 2000 Academy Award® for Best Achievement in Visual Effects. Hahn joined Sony Pictures Imageworks in 1996 as a sequence supervisor on Contact and went on to work on such projects as Godzilla, Starship Troopers and Stuart Little, the latter two of which were recognized with Academy Award® nominations for Best Achievement in Visual Effects.

Prior to joining Imageworks, Hahn spent three years at Walt Disney Feature Animation as a technical director. He began his career as a software engineer at AT&T.

Hahn holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from New York Institute of Technology.