IGNITE to feature visual effects supervisor Claus
calendar icon19 Apr 2022
Lincoln, Neb.--Trent Claus, an award-winning visual effects supervisor with Lola VFX will be featured at IGNITE on Friday, April 22 at 12:30 p.m. at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. The event is free and open to the public.
The event is also accessible via Zoom at https://go.unl.edu/ignite.
Claus, who is a 2006 graduate of the School of Art, Art History & Design, has worked on more than 120 feature films, including 19 Academy Award nominees for Best Visual Effects (4 winners), 10 nominees for Best Picture (1 winner) and with a cumulative worldwide box office of more than $45 billion.
Claus is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the Visual Effects Society (VES). In 2012, he was awarded the VES Award for Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture for his groundbreaking work on “Captain America: The First Avenger.” In 2020 he was nominated for Outstanding Compositing once again for “Captain Marvel,” in which he de-aged the character Nick Fury, played by Samuel L. Jackson.
Over the course of Marvel Studios’ history, Claus has contributed to 21 out of 27 films, including his work as visual effects supervisor on “Avengers: Endgame,” “Captain Marvel,” “Captain America: Civil War,” “Avengers: Infinity War,” and others. Most recently, he has worked with Lucasfilm and Disney+ to bring the Star Wars series “The Mandalorian” and “The Book of Boba Fett” to life.
Other notable films he has worked on include “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “The Social Network,” “Star Trek,” “Avatar” and “Prometheus.”
The Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts is located at 13thand Q streets on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln city campus.
The IGNITE colloquium is for all Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts students, which involves guest lectures, workshops and seminars around creative and professional development.