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Stephen Rosenbaum is an American
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artist and supervisor, and has worked on numerous movie, tv and music productions, including six that have won
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. He has been nominated three times for an
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and two times for a
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. He has won both awards twice for his contributions on ''
Forrest Gump ''Forrest Gump'' is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis. An adaptation of the Forrest Gump (novel), 1986 novel by Winston Groom, the screenplay of the film is written by Eric Roth. It stars Tom Hanks in the title rol ...
'' and ''
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'', and has played artist and supervisor roles on such pioneering films as ''
Jurassic Park ''Jurassic Park'', later referred to as ''Jurassic World'', is an American science fiction media franchise created by Michael Crichton, centered on a disastrous attempt to create a theme park of De-extinction#Cloning, cloned dinosaurs. It bega ...
'', '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day'', ''
The Abyss ''The Abyss'' is a 1989 American science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron and starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. When an American submarine sinks in the Caribbean, a US search and recovery tea ...
'', '' X2: X-Men United'', ''
Death Becomes Her ''Death Becomes Her'' is a 1992 American satirical surrealistic black comedy fantasy film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and written by David Koepp and Martin Donovan. The film stars Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis, a ...
'', '' Contact'' and '' The Perfect Storm''.


Personal life

Rosenbaum was raised in
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and graduated from Palisades Charter High School where he met and eventually married his high school sweetheart. He graduated from
University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...
, and remains a Bay Area, California resident.


Career

Rosenbaum began his career in
visual effects Visual effects (sometimes abbreviated as VFX) is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production. The integration of live-action footage and other live-action fo ...
at the reconstructed Computer Graphics Department of
Lucasfilm Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC is an American film and television production company founded by filmmaker George Lucas in December 10, 1971 in San Rafael, California, and later moved to San Francisco in 2005. It is best known for creating and producing th ...
's effects division
Industrial Light & Magic Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American Film, motion picture visual effects, computer animation and stereo conversion digital studio founded by George Lucas on May 26, 1975. It is a division of the film production company Lucasfilm, which Lu ...
in 1989. The previous members of this department moved to the building next door and formed the company
Pixar Pixar (), doing business as Pixar Animation Studios, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated feature films. Pixar is a subsidiary of Walt Disney ...
. This new group of artists received their first chance to make a computer generated character when
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asked them to create the Pseudopod water creature for ''
The Abyss ''The Abyss'' is a 1989 American science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron and starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. When an American submarine sinks in the Caribbean, a US search and recovery tea ...
''. Cameron followed with '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' and the group expanded the artist base and created one of the first digital manipulations of a human character. The artists continued to thrive with opportunities to animate and render the seminal dinosaurs in ''
Jurassic Park ''Jurassic Park'', later referred to as ''Jurassic World'', is an American science fiction media franchise created by Michael Crichton, centered on a disastrous attempt to create a theme park of De-extinction#Cloning, cloned dinosaurs. It bega ...
''. Rosenbaum then oversaw the digital excision of Lt. Dan's legs, Forrest's mastery of ping pong, and the fanciful feather animations in ''
Forrest Gump ''Forrest Gump'' is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis. An adaptation of the Forrest Gump (novel), 1986 novel by Winston Groom, the screenplay of the film is written by Eric Roth. It stars Tom Hanks in the title rol ...
''. These movies help spark the rapid evolution of traditional film-processed visual effects and inspired an industry-wide shift in filmmaking methodologies and commercial digital imagery manipulation. Rosenbaum spent several years working on various projects at Weta Digital, and in 2007, he began work on ''
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''. For two years, Rosenbaum worked with Cameron in Los Angeles during performance capture and in New Zealand during live action photography. For the third year of the project he returned to New Zealand to help complete the CGI on the movie. Since Avatar, Rosenbaum has been immersed in Virtual Production and the persistent drive toward realtime visual effects and more believable digital characters. His focus has been on capturing and faithfully reproducing actor performances of recognized personalities, including famous musicians such as
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and the band
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. In 2010, Rosenbaum was hired by
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to start a character animation development group. He brought together some of the best computer graphics geeks, and they built a modernized approach to creating physically and behaviorally realistic digital humans and creatures. Leveraging the new pipeline, he designed and supervised the giants for the movie ''
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''. In 2014, Rosenbaum directed the creation of a virtual ''Michael Jackson'' posthumously performing a previously unreleased song ''live'' at
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. He then spent the next two years creating the reimagined
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for the movie '' Kong: Skull Island''. Rosenbaum then partnered with acclaimed music luminary
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to recreate the band
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as their younger digital selves performing a new song. He established a virtual musician production company of 50 plus, built a cloud-first production pipeline, and in 2018 they completed an eight minute promotional video of the photo-real virtual band members talking and singing.


Filmography

* '' Kong: Skull Island'' (2017) (
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: Legendary Pictures) * '' Slave to the Rhythm'' (2014) (
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) * ''
Jack the Giant Slayer ''Jack the Giant Slayer'' (previously titled ''Jack the Giant Killer'') is a 2013 American heroic fantasy, fantasy adventure film directed by Bryan Singer and written by Darren Lemke, Christopher McQuarrie and Dan Studney, from a story by Lemke ...
'' (2013) (
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:
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) * ''
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'' (2009) (
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: Weta Digital) * '' The Water Horse'' (2007) (On-set
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: Weta Digital) * '' The Shaggy Dog'' (2006) (
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:
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) * '' The Chronicles of Riddick'' (2004) (
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:
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) * ''
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'' (2004) (On-set
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: Weta Digital) * '' X2: X-Men United'' (2003) (
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:
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) * '' K-19: The Widowmaker'' (2002) (
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:
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Films) * '' Big Trouble'' (2002) (
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:
Industrial Light & Magic Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American Film, motion picture visual effects, computer animation and stereo conversion digital studio founded by George Lucas on May 26, 1975. It is a division of the film production company Lucasfilm, which Lu ...
) * '' The Perfect Storm'' (2000) (
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:
Industrial Light & Magic Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American Film, motion picture visual effects, computer animation and stereo conversion digital studio founded by George Lucas on May 26, 1975. It is a division of the film production company Lucasfilm, which Lu ...
) * '' Snow Falling on Cedars'' (1999) (
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:
Industrial Light & Magic Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American Film, motion picture visual effects, computer animation and stereo conversion digital studio founded by George Lucas on May 26, 1975. It is a division of the film production company Lucasfilm, which Lu ...
) * '' Snow Falling on Cedars'' (1999) (
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:
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) * ''
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'' (1997) (
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:
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) * '' Contact'' (1997) (
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:
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) * ''
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'' (1996) (
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:
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) * '' DreamWorks (Logo)'' (1995) (Computer Graphics Supervisor:
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) * ''
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'' (1995) (Computer Graphics Supervisor:
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) * ''
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'' (1994) (Computer Graphics Artist:
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) * ''
Forrest Gump ''Forrest Gump'' is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis. An adaptation of the Forrest Gump (novel), 1986 novel by Winston Groom, the screenplay of the film is written by Eric Roth. It stars Tom Hanks in the title rol ...
'' (1994) (Computer Graphics Supervisor:
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) * ''
Jurassic Park ''Jurassic Park'', later referred to as ''Jurassic World'', is an American science fiction media franchise created by Michael Crichton, centered on a disastrous attempt to create a theme park of De-extinction#Cloning, cloned dinosaurs. It bega ...
'' (1993) (Computer Graphics Artist:
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) * ''
Death Becomes Her ''Death Becomes Her'' is a 1992 American satirical surrealistic black comedy fantasy film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and written by David Koepp and Martin Donovan. The film stars Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis, a ...
'' (1992) (Computer Graphics Artist:
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) * '' Memoirs of an Invisible Man (film)'' (1992) (Computer Graphics Artist:
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) * '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' (1991) (Computer Graphics Artist:
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) * ''
The Hunt for Red October (film) ''The Hunt for Red October'' (alternate on-screen Russian title: ''Красный октябрь'') is a 1990 American submarine spy thriller film directed by John McTiernan, produced by Mace Neufeld, and starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, ...
'' (1990) (Computer Graphics Artist:
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) * ''
Back to the Future Part II ''Back to the Future Part II'' is a 1989 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis from a screenplay by Bob Gale; both wrote the story. It is a sequel to the 1985 film ''Back to the Future'' and the second installment in the Back ...
'' (1989) (Computer Graphics Artist:
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) * ''
The Abyss ''The Abyss'' is a 1989 American science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron and starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. When an American submarine sinks in the Caribbean, a US search and recovery tea ...
'' (1989) (Computer Graphics Artist:
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)


Awards and nominations


Academy Award

* 2018
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– nominee for Best Visual Effects – '' Kong: Skull Island'' (2017) * 2010
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– winner for Best Visual Effects – ''
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'' (2009) * 1995
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– winner for Best Visual Effects – ''
Forrest Gump ''Forrest Gump'' is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis. An adaptation of the Forrest Gump (novel), 1986 novel by Winston Groom, the screenplay of the film is written by Eric Roth. It stars Tom Hanks in the title rol ...
'' (1994)


BAFTA

* 2010 BAFTA Film Award – winner for best Special Visual Effects – ''
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'' (2009) * 1995 BAFTA Film Award – winner for best Special Visual Effects – ''
Forrest Gump ''Forrest Gump'' is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis. An adaptation of the Forrest Gump (novel), 1986 novel by Winston Groom, the screenplay of the film is written by Eric Roth. It stars Tom Hanks in the title rol ...
'' (1994)


Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films

* 2010
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– winner for Best Special Effects – ''
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'' (2009) * 2004
Saturn Award The Saturn Awards are American awards presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The awards were created to honor science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, but have since grown to reward other films bel ...
– nominee for Best Special Effects – '' X2: X-Men United'' (2003) * 1998
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– nominee for Best Special Effects – '' Contact'' (1997)


References


External links

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