ChristianRivers
- Director
- Visual effects
Christian Rivers began his screen career drawing images of zombie carnage for Peter Jackson classic Braindead. Since then his career has been closely intertwined with Jackson's. After designing creatures on The Lord of the Rings, Rivers won an Oscar for his visual effects contributions to the 2005 remake of King Kong. These days he concentrates on directing: after assisting on The Hobbit, he helmed moody short film Feeder (2015). At one point tied to a possible Dambusters remake, Rivers made his movie debut with post-apocalyptic epic Mortal Engines, based on the award-winning book by Brit Philip Reeve.
Screenography
Awards
2017 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards (The Moas)
Nominated for Best Short Film: Feeder
2014 Visual Effects Society Awards (United States)
Nominated for Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture (with Phil Barrenger, Mark Gee and Thelvin Cabezas): for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
“Peter [Jackson] would describe the shots for the film and I'd sketch them. Now we have a team of people, and rather than storyboard it, we discuss the scenes and the action and we animate in 3D...”