Marc Weigert
Marc Weigert (born June 3, 1970) is an Emmy-award-winning film producer and film/TV visual effects supervisor and 2nd unit director.
Early career
Weigert was born in
Later career
In 1995, Weigert founded the company Dreamscape Imagery Inc. with his wife Stacey. He became VFX Project Manager for the film Independence Day (1996), for which Weigert created "Digital Assistant for Visual Effects", a project management software to manage, schedule and track the filming of VFX elements. In conjunction with the software, Weigert also developed a design for a visual effects production board, in conjunction with manufacturing company Hollywood Production Boards. Between 1996 and 2000, he created new software versions to include the post-production process. Digital Assistant for Visual Effects has been used for several feature films, including Stuart Little, Alien Resurrection, Flubber, Volcano, Godzilla, Wing Commander, Monkeybone, Bless the Child and X-Men, as well as on television films and series. Dreamscape Imagery Inc. sold the source code to the Internet company Creative Planet Inc. in 2000.
As visual effects supervisor for Dreamscape, Weigert worked on a plethora of international feature films, television films, series and commercials, most notably Disney's Flubber, Seven Days to Live , Muppets from Space and The Drew Carey Show. He also worked on several documentaries, earning Dreamscape the CINE Golden Eagle award.
In 1997, Weigert held the master class "action with effects" for the European Film Academy. In 2014, he taught a second master class for the EFA and thus became the only instructor to hold two EFA master classes in his lifetime. He also taught digital compositing classes at the Art Institute of California - Los Angeles, was speaker at the iHollywood Forum and the Producers Guild of America (PGA)'s first "produced by" conference in Los Angeles in 2009. He also spoke at the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) conference, SIGGRAPH Los Angeles and Vancouver conferences, FMX Germany, the University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg, Austria and the HPI School of Design Thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute, Berlin
In 1999, he founded the production company
In 2006, Weigert won the
In 2006, Weigert wrote the screenplay Force Majeure und co-wrote Raising Phoenix and Red Sea with writer Kurt Frey and Volker Engel. He also served as visual effects supervisor on the
In 2008-2009, Weigert co-supervised and co-produced Roland Emmerich's
In 2010, Weigert was executive producer and VFX supervisor for the film
In July 2014, Weigert was named President of Method Studios worldwide. Method Studios is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and has 9 facilities, including New York, London, Vancouver, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Sydney and Melbourne. He left Method after one year in June 2015. In July 2015, Weigert joined the production of Independence Day: Resurgence as VFX Producer, 20 years after the first Independence Day. In the same year, he was voted into the prestigious American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) as associate member. In June 2016, he started as co-producer and VFX producer on "Nutcracker and the four realms" for the Walt Disney Company, released worldwide in November 2018.
Weigert is a member of the
Marc resides on Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Awards
- Emmy Award for The Trianglein 2006
- Satellite Award for 2012in 2009
- Nominated for Online Film&Television Association (OFTA) Award in 2010
- Nominated for three VES awards (2010 for 2012, 2011 for "Anonymous", and 2014 for White House Down)
- Nominated for a Saturn Awardin 2010 for 2012
- Nominated for a Broadcast Film Critics Association Awardin 2010 for 2012
References
- imdb: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
- imdb: Independence Day: Resurgence
- Variety: Marc Weigert named President of Method Studios
- Hollywood Reporter: VFX vet Marc Weigert joins Method Studios
- Animation World Network "Tracking Marc" blog
- imdb: White House Down
- Anonymous at IMDb
- imdb: 2012
- Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS)
- Scifi.com - emmy award
- Wikipedia: The Triangle (miniseries)
- imdb: The Triangle
- imdb: Dark Kingdom (aka Ring of the Nibelungs)
- imdb: Coronado
- The Hollywood Reporter: Emmy awards 2006
- Uncharted Territory, LLC
- Dreamscape Imagery Inc.
- Vfxblog on Dynamicfx.com
- iHollywood Forum
- EFA European Film Academy Programme
- Cinefex weekly update
- Variety review: The Triangle