Kevin Tod Haug is a

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who has worked in the film industry since the 1970s. He and

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were nominated for the

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for their work on ''

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'' (2008). He was nominated for the

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for his work on ''

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'' (2017). Haug began in the film industry in the 1970s as a

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programmer. In the 1980s, he became involved with video productions that began using computer-generated effects. In the following decade, he worked on visual effects for television commercials and for two music videos directed by

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. Haug's first role on a feature film as visual effects supervisor came with '' The Game'' when one of its producers,

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who had worked with him on previous commercial and video projects, hired him. Haug was active as a visual effects supervisor from 1997 through 2003 before he decided to do visual effects work on more modest projects for independent film directors. He worked as visual effects designer for

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on the 2004 film '' Finding Neverland''. Haug said the position was similar to

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in how it had greater involvement earlier in a film's production rather than just at the end. Haug was also one of the founders of the production service FX Cartel.

Credits

Film

*'' The Game'' (1997) – visual effects supervisor *''

Fight Club ''Fight Club'' is a 1999 American film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. It is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. Norton plays the unnamed narrator, who is d ...

'' (1999) – visual effects supervisor *'' The Cell'' (2000) – visual effects supervisor *''

Panic Room ''Panic Room'' is a 2002 American thriller film directed by David Fincher. The film stars Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart as a mother and daughter whose new home is invaded by burglars, played by Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, and Dwight Yoaka ...

'' (2002) – visual effects supervisor *''

A Wrinkle in Time ''A Wrinkle in Time'' is a Young adult fiction, young adult science fantasy novel written by American author Madeleine L'Engle. First published in 1962, the book won the Newbery Medal, the Sequoyah Book Award, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and ...

'' (2003) – visual effects supervisor *'' Finding Neverland'' (2004) – visual effects designer *''

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'' (2005) – visual effects designer *'' Stranger than Fiction'' (2006) – visual effects designer *''

The Kite Runner ''The Kite Runner'' is the first novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2003 by Riverhead Books, it tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan, Kabul, Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul. The story is se ...

'' (2007) – visual effects designer *'' Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium'' (2007) – visual effects designer *''

'' (2008) – visual effects designer *'' The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'' (2010) – visual effects supervisor *''

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'' (2011) – visual effects shoot supervisor *''

Machine Gun Preacher ''Machine Gun Preacher'' is a 2011 American biographical action drama film directed by Marc Forster and starring Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, and Michael Shannon. It tells the story of Sam Childers, a former gang biker turned preacher, and ...

'' (2011) – visual effects designer *''

The Time Being ''The Time Being'' is a 2012 American mystery film directed by Nenad Cicin-Sain, written by Nenad Cicin-Sain and Richard N. Gladstein, and starring Wes Bentley, Frank Langella, Ahna O'Reilly, Sarah Paulson, Corey Stoll and Gina Gallego. It was r ...

'' (2012) – visual effects designer *'' Kingsman: The Secret Service'' (2014) – visual effects supervisor (HEM sequence) *''

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'' (2017) – visual effects designer *''

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'' (2016) – VFX unit director *''

Nightmare Cinema ''Nightmare Cinema'' is a 2018 American horror anthology film featuring work by directors Alejandro Brugués, Joe Dante, Mick Garris, Ryūhei Kitamura, and David Slade. Plot Five strangers converge at a haunted movie theater owned by T ...

'' ("This Way to Egress" segment) (2019) – visual effects designer *'' Comandante'' (2023) – visual effects designer

Television

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Eerie, Indiana ''Eerie, Indiana'' is an American horror science fiction television series that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1991, to December 09, 1993. The series was created by José Rivera and Karl Schaefer, with Joe Dante serving as creat ...

'' (1991–1992) – visual effects supervisor *''

'' (2017–present) – visual effects designer *''

Nightflyers ''Nightflyers'' is a science fiction horror novella by American writer George R. R. Martin, released as a short novella in 1980 and as an expanded novella in 1981. A short story collection of the same name was released in 1985 that includes the ...

'' (2018) – visual effects designer, one episode *''

Barkskins ''Barkskins'' is a 2016 novel by American writer Annie Proulx. It tells the story of two immigrants to New France, René Sel and Charles Duquet, and of their descendants. It spans over 300 years and witnesses the deforestation of the New World fr ...

'' (2020) – visual effects designer, three episodes

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Haug, Kevin Tod Living people Visual effects supervisors Year of birth missing (living people)