Adam Howard Art showcases Adam's broad artistic experiences worldwide. They include visual effects, animation, traditional fine art, portraits, digital art, photography, sculpture and music.
Adam is an Emmy® Award winning Visual Effects Supervisor for feature film, television, music videos, commercials and theme park productions.
He is also an accomplished portrait painter with paintings in private collections around the world. Originally trained as a graphic designer and illustrator using traditional art tools in his home town of Melbourne Australia, he now paints with digital tools which he refers to as painting with light. He is the winner of four Prime Time EMMY® Awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects and has been nominated a total of nine times for his VFX work on multiple Star Trek series.
His passion for visual effects in film and television led him to be one of the first digital artists on the planet in the early 1980's creating ground breaking digital effects and animation for ABC-TV Melbourne and AAV Studios. He moved to Los Angeles in 1990 getting his dream jobs of working as lead animator and compositor on Star Trek: The Next Generation and MacGyver, and a few years later working as a senior artist at George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic (ILM).
Adam has worked on over 140 feature films including Titanic, Birdman, Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest, Mission Impossible 3, Rush Hour 3, Jarhead, Clibanger, The Sandlot, The River Wild, Pee Wee's Big Holiday, War of the Worlds, Star Trek: First Contact, The Day After Tomorrow, Van Helsing, Coneheads, The Hurricane Heist, Tower Heist, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn 1 & 2, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Island, Peter Pan, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, and Bram Stokers Dracula.
He created visual effects and animation for TV series including Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Will & Grace, That 70's Show and the iconic opening title chalkboards for The Simpsons. He was senior VFX Supervisor for the Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ride experience at Universal Studios Orlando, Tokyo and Los Angeles.
Adam recently completed work as VFX Supervisor for M. Night Shyamalan’s TV series SERVANT on Apple+ and season 4 of EVIL on CBS.