Dan Kunz

Dan Kunz

Senior Motion Capture Specialist / 19 yrs

Vancouver, Canada

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Visual Effects Department Supervisor

Mickey7 (2025)

Visual Effects Onset Supervisor

Dune: Part Two (2024)

VFX Onset Supervisor

Oppenheimer (2023)

Visual Effects Onset Support

The Last Of Us (2023)

On-Set Team

Bullet Train (2022)

Department Supervision

Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab (2022)

VFX Data Supervisor

Uncharted (2022)

Motion Capture Supervisor

Slumberland (2022)

On-Set VFX Data Supervisor

Dune (2021)

Motion Capture Supervisor

Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

Motion Capture Supervisor

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

VFX Data Capture

See (2019)

Motion Capture Supervisor

The kid who would be king (2019)

Motion Capture Supervisor

Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

VFX Data Capture

Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

On-Set VFX Data Supervisor

First Man (2018)

VFX Photographer

Bucketheads: A Star Wars Story (2018)

Motion Capture Supervisor

Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

On-Set VFX Data Supervisor (Double Negative)

Deadpool 2 (2018)

Motion Capture Supervisor

Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

On-Set VFX Data Supervisor

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Motion Capture Supervisor

The Mummy (2017)

Motion Capture Supervisor

Wonder Woman (2017)

On-Set VFX Data Supervisor

The fate of the furious (2017)

The BFG (2016)

Department Supervision

Stranger Things (2016)

Motion Capture TD

Gravity (2016)

Animator

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

VFX Photographer

Paddington (2015)

Motion Capture TD

Jupiter Ascending (2015)

Motion Editor / Animator

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

Motion Editor / Animator

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

Motion Capture Technical Director

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Motion Capture TD

47 Ronin (2013)

Motion Editor / Animator

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

VFX Photographer

Closed Circuit (2013)

Motion Capture TD

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)

Motion Capture TD

Skyfall (2012)

Motion Capture TD

The Dictator (2012)

Motion Capture TD

John Carter (2012)

Motion Editor / Animator

The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

Motion Capture TD

Paul (2011)

Motion Capture TD

Mars Needs Moms (2011)

Motion Capture TD

A Christmas Carol (2009)

VFX Data Capture

Venom (2004)

Work History

  • Capture Supervisor

    Double Negative

    May 2016 - Present

    Motion Capture and VFX Data Capture
    Blade Runner 2049
    Annihilation
    The Mummy
    Fast and Furious 8
    Star Trek Beyond

  • Motion Editor / Animator

    Wētā FX

    September 2015 - April 2016
    Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

  • Motion Capture TD and Animation Artist

    DreamWorks Studios SKG

    March 2015 - June 2015
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    The BFG - On-set collaboration with Weta Digital

  • Animator

    Industrial Light & Magic

    January 2015 - March 2015
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Avengers: Age of Ultron

  • Motion Editor / Animator and Virtual Camera Integration

    Wētā FX

    June 2013 - November 2014
    Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

    The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
    The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
    Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

  • Capture Lab and Virtual Production TD

    Framestore

    October 2011 - June 2013
    London, United Kingdom

    Responsibilities include all aspects of motion capture from data acquisition to motion editing, virtual camera and simulcam, real-time motionbuilder operation, 3D scanning, witness cameras, reference photography, and on-set VFX data wrangling

    Gravity
    Jupiter Ascending
    Edge of Tomorrow
    47 Ronin
    Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
    Skyfall
    The Dictator

    Previs mocap for The Third Floor:
    Maleficent

  • Motion Editor / Animator

    Wētā FX

    July 2011 - September 2011
    Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand


    The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn

  • Motion Capture TD - Capture Technician & Face Capture Lead

    Double Negative

    March 2010 - July 2011
    London, United Kingdom

    John Carter
    Paul

  • Animator, Motion Layout, and Motion Capture TD

    ImageMovers

    October 2007 - March 2010
    San Francisco Bay Area

    Mars Needs Moms
    A Christmas Carol
    Character Animator
    Oct 2008 - March 2010
    Performance Integration Lead (Motion Editing & Layout)
    April 2008 - November 2008
    Capture Technician
    Oct 2007 - April 2008

  • Lead Animator and Motion Capture TD

    America's Army / SAIC

    May 2005 - September 2007
    San Francisco Bay Area

  • Motion Studies Instructor

    Ex'pression College for Digital Arts

    October 2005 - November 2006
    San Francisco Bay Area

  • Intern

    Pixar Animation Studios / Pixar University

    December 2004 - May 2005
    San Francisco Bay Area
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Education

  • Animation Mentor

    2005 - 2006

  • Ex'pression College

    2002 - 2004

  • Academy of Art University

    2001 - 2002