Richard Baker
0.7Visual Effects

Richard Baker

Jun 15, 1925 -

Richard Baker is a visual effects professional holding dual U.S. and U.K. citizenship, with a career spanning major feature films and television. Early in his career, he worked as a compositor at prestigious studios, including Framestore and Cinesite. He later became a compositing supervisor at MPC in London, contributing to large-scale productions like The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Clash of the Titans, and 10,000 BC.

Transitioning into stereoscopic work, Baker joined Prime Focus World in London, where he supervised the stereo conversion pipeline for films such as Gravity, World War Z, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and Frankenweenie. His responsibilities included guiding the setup of a division dedicated to stereo conversion, deploying advanced geometry mapping techniques for realistic depth, and overseeing over 900 stereo-converted shots for Edge of Tomorrow.

In more recent years, Richard Baker has held VFX supervision roles on several high-profile projects, particularly within the Netflix ecosystem. He has served as studio or production visual effects supervisor on The Noel Diary, Me Time, A Boy Called Christmas, We Can Be Heroes, Hillbilly Elegy, and Da 5 Bloods. He also served as an additional visual effects supervisor on They Cloned Tyrone and Red One and was the production visual effects supervisor on The Kitchen.

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Movie1981MadhouseSacha Robertson Jr.

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Movie2010Clash of the TitansCompositing SupervisorVisual Effects
Movie2002The Santa Clause 2Executive ProducerProduction
Movie2010Crazy on the OutsideProducerProduction
Movie2004King ArthurDigital CompositorsVisual Effects
Movie1997For Richer or PoorerExecutive ProducerProduction
Movie2005Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryDigital CompositorsVisual Effects
Movie2005The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyDigital CompositorsVisual Effects
Movie2015The MartianStereoscopic SupervisorVisual Effects
Movie2014Edge of TomorrowStereoscopic SupervisorVisual Effects
Movie2017Loving PabloVisual Effects SupervisorVisual Effects
Movie1983A Night with Lou ReedProducerProduction
Movie2009Angels & DemonsCompositing SupervisorVisual Effects
Movie2020The Devil All the TimeVFX SupervisorVisual Effects
Movie2023The KitchenVisual Effects SupervisorVisual Effects
TV Show1976Live from Lincoln CenterProducerProduction