Habib Zargarpour
Habib Zargarpour | |
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Born | (1964-03-09) 9 March 1964 (age 60) Tehran, Iran |
Education | University of British Columbia ArtCenter College of Design |
Occupation(s) | VFX supervisor CG supervisor Art director Creative director |
Years active | 1990–present |
Website | habibzargarpour |
Habib Zargarpour (born 9 March 1964) is an Iranian visual effects supervisor, computer graphics supervisor, art director and creative director.
Zargarpour worked on the films Twister (1996) and The Perfect Storm (2000), for which he was nominated for two Academy Awards and won two BAFTA Awards. As of now, he is the only Asian to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.[citation needed]
Biography
Habib Zargarpour has had almost two decades of experience in visual effect for film. He had worked as a graphic artist and fine arts illustrator since 1981, and began his career in visual effects for film in 1990 when he spent a few years working on digital effects for IMAX films in Los Angeles. He graduated with distinction in Industrial Design from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena[1] in 1992 and discovered his passion for design in film.
He spent 9 years at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) where he first joined the team of The Mask in 1993 as a Technical Director. Subsequent projects included the development of such effects as the particle tornadoes in Twister, the digital oceans and stormy seas in The Perfect Storm, Spawn’s cape, and the pod race simulations and crashes in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.[1]
While at ILM, he was nominated for two Academy Awards in Visual Effects for Twister and The Perfect Storm and garnered two British Academy Awards for those films working with Visual effects supervisor Stefen Fangmeier. He worked as a Digital Effects Supervisor with John Knoll on the pod race sequences in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and on two Star Trek films: Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact, working on the never before seen space anomalies and the Phoenix rocket launch sequence. Other creative projects at ILM included all digital underwater shots of Matt Damon in The Bourne Identity, and the alien creatures in Signs.
Zargarpour continues to value the CG industry as the perfect mix of technical and artistic realms. Since 2003, Habib has worked as a Senior Art Director at Electronic Arts on driving and racing titles. His projects included Need for Speed Underground and James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing. In 2006, he Art Directed a next generation title called Need for Speed: Most Wanted for which he received a VES (Visual Effects Society) Award in 2006. In 2009, he served as an official festival judge for the Noor Iranian Film Festival in Los Angeles.
As of May 2010[update], Zargarpour is a creative director of Microsoft Game Studios. He was the consulting Art Director for the Xbox One Launch title Ryse: Son of Rome collaborating with the Crytek team in Frankfurt. In 2014 he became Director of Visuals for Microsoft Studios Global Publishing.
Zargarpour is an active member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), and a founding member of the Visual Effects Society (VES).
Filmography
- Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
- The Jungle Book (2016)
- Silver Cord (2009)
- Signs (2002)
- The Bourne Identity (2002)
- Aizea: City of the Wind (2001)
- The Perfect Storm (2000)
- Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
- Snake Eyes (1998)
- Spawn (1997)
- Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
- Twister (1996)
- Jumanji (1995)
- Star Trek Generations (1994)
- The Mask (1994)
- Adventures in Dinosaur City (1992)
Art direction
- ReCore – Senior Art Director, Microsoft Studios (2016)
- Sunset overdrive – Senior Art Director, Microsoft Studios (2014)
- Ryse: Son of Rome – Senior Art Director (2013)
- Need for Speed: Shift – Consulting Art Director (2009)
- Need for Speed: Nitro – Consulting Art Director (2009)
- Unannounced EA Spielberg Project LMNO – Senior Art Director (2006-2008)
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted – Senior Art Director (2005)
- James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing – Senior Art Director (driving missions) (2003)
- Need for Speed Underground – Senior Art Director (2003)
References
- ^ a b مصاحبه با هنرمندان: حبیب زرگرپور [Interview with artists: Habib Zargarpour] (in Persian). cgart.ir. July 2011. Archived from the original on 6 June 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
External links
- Habib Zargarpour at IMDb
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- Richard Edlund - Poltergeist (1982)
- Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston, and Kit West - Return of the Jedi (1983)
- Dennis Muren, George Gibbs, Michael J. McAlister, and Lorne Peterson - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
- George Gibbs and Richard Conway - Brazil (1985)
- Robert Skotak, Brian Johnson, Suzanne M. Benson, John Richardson, and Stan Winston - Aliens (1986)
- Michael Lantieri, Michael Owens, Edward Jones, and Bruce Walters - The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
- George Gibbs, Richard Williams, Ken Ralston, and Edward Jones - Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
- Ken Ralston, Michael Lantieri, John Bell, and Steve Gawley - Back to the Future Part II (1989)
- The production team of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1990)
- Stan Winston, Dennis Muren, Gene Warren Jr., and Robert Skotak - Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- Michael Lantieri, Ken Ralston, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., Doug Chiang, and Douglas Smythe - Death Becomes Her (1992)
- Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and Michael Lantieri - Jurassic Park (1993)
- Ken Ralston, George Murphy, Stephen Rosenbaum, Doug Chiang, and Allen Hall - Forrest Gump (1994)
- Robert Legato, Michael Kanfer, Matt Sweeney, and Leslie Ekker - Apollo 13 (1995)
- Stefen Fangmeier, John Frazier, Henry LaBounta, and Habib Zargarpour - Twister (1996)
- Mark Stetson, Karen Goulekas, Nick Allder, Neil Corbould, and Nick Dudman - The Fifth Element (1997)
- Stefen Fangmeier, Roger Guyett, and Neil Corbould - Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- John Gaeta, Steve Courtley, Janek Sirrs, and Jon Thum - The Matrix (1999)
- Stefen Fangmeier, John Frazier, Walt Conti, Habib Zargarpour, and Tim Alexander - The Perfect Storm (2000)
- Jim Rygiel, Richard Taylor, Alex Funke, Randall William Cook, and Mark Stetson - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
- Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, and Alex Funke - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
- Joe Letteri, Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, and Alex Funke - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
- Karen Goulekas, Neil Corbould, Greg Strause, and Remo Balcells - The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
- Joe Letteri, Christian Rivers, Brian Van't Hul, and Richard Taylor - King Kong (2005)
- John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson, and Allen Hall - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
- Michael L. Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris, and Trevor Wood - The Golden Compass (2007)
- Eric Barba, Craig Barron, Nathan McGuinness, and Edson Williams - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
- Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, and Andrew R. Jones - Avatar (2009)
- Chris Corbould, Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, and Peter Bebb - Inception (2010)
- Tim Burke, John Richardson, Greg Butler, and David Vickery - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011)
- Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, and Erik-Jan de Boer - Life of Pi (2012)
- Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould, and Nikki Penny - Gravity (2013)
- Paul Franklin, Scott R. Fisher, Andrew Lockley, and Ian Hunter - Interstellar (2014)
- Chris Corbould, Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh, and Neal Scanlan - Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
- Robert Legato, Dan Lemmon, Andrew R. Jones, and Adam Valdez - The Jungle Book (2016)
- Richard R. Hoover, Paul Lambert, Gerd Nefzer, and John Nelson - Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
- Geoffrey Baumann, Jesse James Chisholm, Craig Hammack, and Dan Sudick - Black Panther (2018)
- Greg Butler, Guillaume Rocheron, and Dominic Tuohy - 1917 (2019)
- Scott R. Fisher, Andrew Jackson, and Andrew Lockley - Tenet (2020)
- Brian Connor, Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, and Gerd Nefzer - Dune (2021)
- Richard Baneham, Daniel Barrett, Joe Letteri and Eric Saindon - Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
- Simon Hughes - Poor Things (2023)