Movie Special Effects Director
Visual effects & Media and Entertainment director. James Knight is a Virtual Production Director working for AMD, based in Los Angeles, CA. In addition to being Performance Capture Supervisor on Columbia Pictures’ The Amazing Spiderman, he spent four years managing the motion capture for James Cameron’s Avatar. Additionally he has done Performance Capture and Virtual Production for films including I Am Legend, 2012, Hulk and Prince Caspian and various video games including, Batman Arkham City, Scene It, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and Gotham Racing. He is a member of the Visual Effects Society (VES) and on the Board of Directors at the British Academy’s Los Angeles chapter (BAFTA-LA).