Chris Watts

A 20+ year industry veteran, Watts invented the process now referred to as "Digital Intermediate" with "Pleasantville." Later, he pioneered the use of digital still cameras as a high resolution replacement for film cameras on "Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride." On the Academy Award-winning Gravity, Watts was part of the team that designed the zero-g shooting methodology that allowed the actors to deliver their performances in impossible situations in shots of unprecedented duration. Famous for doing the impossible, on a budget. He has worked in visual effects since the early 1990s. He served as visual effects supervisor on the films "Street Kings", "Case 39", and "Where the Wild Things Are" and in 2007 made visual effects history with Zack Snyder's "300". Watts also helmed vfx for the the remake of John Carpenter's classic horror film "The Fog," and was a consultant to Tim Burton's stop-motion animated feature "Corpse Bride." Watts' other credits as visual effects supervisor include Joe