Biography

Nigel Sumner is the Creative Director of ILM's Singapore & Sydney Studios, overseeing the company's artistic efforts and helping guide the trajectory of ILM's global strategy. He joined Industrial Light & Magic in 1999 as a Technical Director for the commercials division and, in 2000, transferred to the company's feature film division. In 2007, Sumner moved to Singapore to lead a global team of digital artists, spearheading a collaborative effort with ILM's American counterparts on numerous feature film and commercial productions. ILM Singapore projects include Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Marvel's The Avengers, and Guillermo Del Toro's 2013 science fiction epic, Pacific Rim, for which Sumner received a BAFTA nomination and the HPA Award for Outstanding Visual Effects. He was also nominated for a BAFTA Special Visual Effects Award and a Visual Effects Society Award for contributing to the 2016 smash hit Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Sumner holds a master's degree in Computer Animation from Bournemouth University, located in Dorset, England, where he taught animation techniques, software, and programming languages. Information above via their Industrial Light & Magic Official Site Bio.

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