Profile: Eric Barba - Visual Effects Supervisor

Eric Barba is the Academy Award®™-winning Visual Effects Supervisor of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". Like many of the other top directors he collaborates with, Eric is equally comfortable working in the worlds of film and advertising. His visual effects credits span films including "The Fifth Element", "Supernova", "Zodiac", and "The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button" to dozens of high-end commercials for Nike, Heineken, Jaguar, and many other leading brands.Eric began working with Director David Fincher in 2002, on an award-winning commercial for Adidas. Since then Eric has worked on nearly all of Fincher's commercial and film projects. He was involved with Fincher's "Benjamin Button" from the film's inception, developing the team and approach to creating a digital human used in a test that helped sell the project to the studio. Eric also directs commercials himself, including campaigns for American Express, Nike, and Honda. Prior to joining Digital Domain in 1996 Eric worked at Steven Spielberg's Amblin Imaging on shows including "SeQuest DSV", "Star Trek: The Next Generation", and others. He is a graduate of the Art Center College of Design.We will discuss interactive media and what you can do as filmmaker to stay in the game.You can email your questions to 123FilmEasy@Gmail.com and we'll answer them "LIVE ON AIR." Link: www.123FilmEasy.com. Follow us on "Twitter" at https://twitter.com/123Film.