Mathieu Vig (Visual Effects)

Mathieu Vig is a French animation supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). He began his professional journey in visual effects in 2004 at Framestore before joining ILM's London studio in 2014. He studied animation at Gobelins, the French animation school. At ILM, Vig first worked on Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and then on Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015), where he developed the face rig for Maz and led animation on the Maz and Snoke sequences. He has since overseen animation on a wide variety of projects, ranging from photoreal creatures in live-action films to stylised character work in fully animated features. For instance, on Eternals (2021), he served as animation supervisor alongside Daniele Bigi and Peter Kyme. Vig has spoken about the creative shift in his work when ILM returned to feature animation, particularly on Ultraman: Rising (2024). In interviews, he described the challenge of transitioning from realistic creature animation to more expressive,...Read More