Kevin Baillie

Kevin is a co-founder and VFX Supervisor at Atomic Fiction, an effects company with studios in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Montreal. In the 7 years since co-founding Atomic Fiction, he has supervised visuals for two Star Trek movies, two Transformers franchise installments, and the award-winning effects for Robert Zemeckis’s live action films, Flight and The Walk. He most recently wrapped production on Zemeckis’s film Allied.

Prior to launching Atomic Fiction, Baillie supervised at ImageMovers Digital on cutting-edge motion capture feature films, and helmed VFX at The Orphanage on critically-acclaimed movies such as Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Night at the Museum, Superman Returns, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Hellboy.

Kevin is also CEO of Conductor Technologies, a company breaking new ground by offering high-capacity, on-demand rendering to the masses using cloud computing technologies.

Baillie’s film career began very early on, when he joined Lucasfilm’s JAK Films division as a pre-visualization artist on Star Wars Episode I at the age of 18.

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