Multiple Academy Award winning VFX Director (Los Angeles)

Alan Chan's most recent visual effects assignment was as a Senior Technical Director and Stereoscopic Lead at Sony Pictures Imageworks, where he has served on projects such as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers.

Prior to Imageworks, Alan was co-founder of Station X Studios, where he has supervised projects such as Tom Clancy's Netforce as well as commercial work for Chevy Blazer, Budweiser and Dodge Ram, and before that, Alan was at Digital Domain where he served as part of the Digital Ship Team on James Cameron's Titanic.

Before entering the industry as a visual effects artist, Alan served as Producer/Director for regional television in Oklahoma. Three published books on 3D animation and experience writing for a national newspaper in high school round out his talents.

His fifteen-year visual effects career spans multiple Clio advertising awards for outstanding visual effects in the commercial field as well as three Academy Awards, two for Best Visual Effects - Two Towers and Titanic - and another for Best Animated Short (The Chubb Chubbs). His science fiction screenplay Ark has garnered praise and awards from industry professionals.

His most recent directorial project is Postcards From The Future - a large format return-to-space epic that was named Best HD Short and garnered a Best Director award for Alan. He also recently wrapped up visual effects work on Tim Burton's re-telling of Alice in Wonderland.