Derek Ledbetter

Visual Effects Artist

Experience

Visual Effects Lead Artist
2024-2025 HBO Productions
• Welcome To Derry

Compositing Supervisor
2021-2024 Crafty Apes Atlanta

Head of 2D / Digital Effects Supervisor
2020-2021 FuseFX Atlanta

Digital Effects Supervisor
2018 FuseFX LA

Senior Compositor
2017 Marvel Studios
• Ant-Man and The Wasp

Compositing Supervisor
2017 FuseFX LA

Senior Compositor
2016 Marvel Studios
• Captain America: Civil War
• Doctor Strange

Lead Visual Effects Compositor & Match Mover
2015 NBC Universal Television
• Defiance: Season 3

Visual Effects Supervisor
2014-2015 Crazy Horse East
• Boardwalk Empire Season 5
• Black Sails Season 2
• Bessie
• Game of Thrones

Lead Visual Effects Compositor & Match Mover
2013-2014 NBC Universal Television
• Defiance: Season 2

Compositing Supervisor
2013 Crazy Horse East
• Boardwalk Empire Season 4
• Wolf of Wall Street
• Black Sails Season 1

Lead Visual Effects Compositor & Match Mover
2012 NBC Universal Television
• Defiance: Season 1

Compositor and Match Mover
2012 Crazy Horse Effects
• The Gangster Squad
• Savages
• Likeness

Lead Visual Effects Compositor & Match Mover
2011 NBC Universal Television
• Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome (Pilot)

Compositor and Match Mover
2010-2011 Crazy Horse Effects
• Water For Elephants

Compositor and Match Mover
2007-2010 NBC Universal Television
• Battlestar Galactica: Razor
• Battlestar Galactica: Season 4
• Virtuality – FOX
• Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
• Caprica

2004-2007 Freelance Visual Effects Artist

2000-2004 Howard Anderson Company – Compositor

1998-2000 Cinema Research Corporation – Title Designer, Visual Effects Artist

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1355658/

Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekledbetter/

Awards

2008 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series ~ Compositor
Battlestar Galactica, Episode “He That Believeth In Me”

2010 Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Visual Effects for a Series ~ VFX Compositor

Caprica, Episode “There Is Another Sky”

2010 Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Visual Effects For A Series ~ VFX Compositor

Virtuality, FOX Television

2013 Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Special Visual Effects ~ VFX Compositor

Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome • Syfy • Universal Cable Productions

2013 Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Special Visual Effects ~ VFX Compositor

Defiance • Pilot • Syfy • Universal Cable Productions

2014 International Academy of Web Television Award for Best Visual Effects (Digital) ~ VFX Compositor

Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome • Syfy • Universal Cable Productions

2014 VES Award Nomination for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program ~ VFX Compositor
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome • Syfy • Universal Cable Productions

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