Alex Wang is a Visual Effects Supervisor. He is best known as the Visual Effects Supervisor at HBO's The Last of Us.
Wang joined ILM's Vancouver office in 2017 as a Visual Effects Supervisor. He began his career in visual effects in 2003 as a Generalist TD at The Orphanage, Inc. in San Francisco, California. He worked as a Technical Director or Digital Artist on films such as Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Sin City (2005), Æon Flux (2005) and Superman Returns (2006). He quickly progressed as he became the Lighting Supervisor on Live Free or Die Hard (2007).
In 2010, Wang moved to Vancouver, Ontario to help launch Digital Domain's Vancouver office. In 2015, he was promoted to Visual Effects Supervisor on Deadpool (2016), where he was an integral asset to the design of the character, Colossus, as his ideas were what brought the character to life. Just before joining ILM, Wang worked as the Visual Effects Supervisor at Double Negative for The Fate of the Furious (2017).
Wang received his Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Computer Animation at Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, Florida.
