Martin Hill

Drawing on his artistic and technical background, he focuses on story and creates compelling previs, creatures, environments, FX, motion graphics and digital characters. Martin recently led Wētā FX’s work on the final season of the Duffer brothers’ Stranger Things.

Martin supervised Wētā FX work across all episodes of Season 8 of Game of Thrones (2019). He oversaw more than 1300 mostly fully digital shots on Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) and his work on Prometheus (2012) was recognised with an Academy Award® nomination for Best Visual Effects. On Furious 7 (2015), he pushed the boundaries of photoreal digital humans with over 300 shots of digital Paul Walker. As Shaders Supervisor and Head of Department, Martin oversaw look development on Avatar (2009) where he also developed the global illumination lighting / spherical harmonics system for which in 2014, he received an Academy® Technical Achievement Award.