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Steven Messing

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Steven Messing
Steven Messing is known for Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and Gladiator II (2024).
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    • Won 1 Primetime Emmy
      • 3 wins & 9 nominations total

    Known for

    Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Zoe Saldaña, Sam Worthington, Oona Chaplin, Jack Champion, and Britain Dalton in Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
    Avatar: Fire and Ash
    7.2
    • Visual Effects
    • 2025
    CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Brendan Cowell, Joel David Moore, Zoe Saldaña, Sam Worthington, Bailey Bass, and Britain Dalton in Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
    Avatar: The Way of Water
    7.5
    • Visual Effects
    • 2022
    Denzel Washington, Connie Nielsen, Pedro Pascal, and Paul Mescal in Gladiator II (2024)
    Gladiator II
    6.4
    • Visual Effects
    • 2024
    Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Brie Larson, Elizabeth Olsen, Chris Pratt, Jeremy Renner, Paul Rudd, Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldaña, Benedict Wong, Anthony Mackie, Chris Hemsworth, Dave Bautista, Benedict Cumberbatch, Evangeline Lilly, Chadwick Boseman, Sebastian Stan, Danai Gurira, Tessa Thompson, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Letitia Wright, and Tom Holland in Avengers: Endgame (2019)
    Avengers: Endgame
    8.4
    • Visual Effects
    • 2019

    Credits

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    Visual Effects

    • Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Zoe Saldaña, Sam Worthington, Oona Chaplin, Jack Champion, and Britain Dalton in Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
      Avatar: Fire and Ash
      7.2
      • visual effects concept art director
      • 2025
    • John Kani, Seth Rogen, Kagiso Lediga, Preston Nyman, Billy Eichner, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Blue Ivy Carter, and Aaron Pierre in Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)
      Mufasa: The Lion King
      6.6
      • visual effects art director
      • 2024
    • Denzel Washington, Connie Nielsen, Pedro Pascal, and Paul Mescal in Gladiator II (2024)
      Gladiator II
      6.4
      • visual effects art director
      • 2024
    • Daniel Dae Kim, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Kiawentiio, Gordon Cormier, Elizabeth Yu, Dallas Liu, Miyako, and Ian Ousley in Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024)
      Avatar: The Last Airbender
      7.1
      TV Series
      • matte painter
      • 2024
    • Chris Hemsworth, Mariami Kovziashvili, and Marta Kovziashvili in Extraction II (2023)
      Extraction II
      7.0
      • lead environment
      • 2023
    • CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Brendan Cowell, Joel David Moore, Zoe Saldaña, Sam Worthington, Bailey Bass, and Britain Dalton in Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
      Avatar: The Way of Water
      7.5
      • concept art director
      • 2022
    • Christian Bale, John David Washington, and Margot Robbie in Amsterdam (2022)
      Amsterdam
      6.2
      • visual effects art director
      • 2022
    • Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jodie Comer, and Adam Driver in The Last Duel (2021)
      The Last Duel
      7.3
      • visual effects art director
      • 2021
    • Ryan Reynolds, Taika Waititi, Dwayne Johnson, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Lil Rel Howery, Jodie Comer, Owen Burke, and Joe Keery in Free Guy (2021)
      Free Guy
      7.1
      • matte painter: Digital Domain (uncredited)
      • 2021
    • Olivia Scott Welch in Fear Street: Part Three - 1666 (2021)
      Fear Street: Part Three - 1666
      6.6
      • matte painter: Digital Matter
      • 2021
    • Sadie Sink in Fear Street: Part Two - 1978 (2021)
      Fear Street: Part Two - 1978
      6.7
      • matte painter: Digital Matter
      • 2021
    • Kiana Madeira, Lloyd Pitts, and Noah Bain Garret in Fear Street: Part One - 1994 (2021)
      Fear Street: Part One - 1994
      6.2
      • matte painter: Digital Matter
      • 2021
    • Amanda Collin, Abubakar Salim, and Winta McGrath in Raised by Wolves (2020)
      Raised by Wolves
      7.4
      TV Series
      • digital matte painter
      • 2020
    • Brad Pitt in Ad Astra (2019)
      Ad Astra
      6.5
      • visual effects art director
      • 2019
    • Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Natalia Dyer, Caleb McLaughlin, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Charlie Heaton, Noah Schnapp, and Gaten Matarazzo in Stranger Things (2016)
      Stranger Things
      8.6
      TV Series
      • digital matte painter
      • digital matte painter & concept artist (uncredited)
      • 2017–2019

    Art Department

    • Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Zoe Saldaña, Sam Worthington, Oona Chaplin, Jack Champion, and Britain Dalton in Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
      Avatar: Fire and Ash
      7.2
      • concept art director
      • 2025
    • Chris Evans, Aubrey Plaza, and Margaret Qualley in Honey Don't! (2025)
      Honey Don't!
      5.3
      • illustrator
      • 2025
    • Alan Arkin, Tim Burton, Danny DeVito, Danny Elfman, Michael Keaton, Helen Aberson, Nick Bartlett, Clive Brunt, Michael Buffer, Ben Crowe, Amerjit Deu, Colin Farrell, Katterli Frauenfelder, Derek Frey, Steve Healey, Rick Heinrichs, Bret Jones, Julian Kershaw, Ehren Kruger, Chris Lebenzon, Sandy Martin, Deobia Oparei, Ian Porter, Douglas Reith, Stephen Samson, Roshan Seth, Harry Taylor, Leah R. Powell, Mark Reader, Ben Davis, Nigel Lowe, Victor Pietraru, Lillia Langley, Peter Brookes, Richard James-Clarke, Marjo Nantel, Mehari 'Bibi' Tesfamarian, Binyam 'Bichu' Tesfamarian, Otgonchimeg Chuluunzorig, Jana Posna, Jewels Good, Max Gill, Peter Trevor, Nina Mangold, Philip Rosch, Eva Green, Joseph Gatt, Lars Eidinger, Liam Bewley, Carol Been, Jo Osmond, Lucy DeVito, Frank Bourke, Heather Rome, Jason Shillingford, Kamil Lemie, Greg Canestrari, Scott Haney, Mark Shrimpton, Phil Zimmerman, Harold Pearl, Joseph Macnab, Vincent Andriano, Anatoli Akerman, Rob Heanley, Richard Leeming, Christian Wolf-La'Moy, Chris Rogers, Erick Hayden, Richard Price, Justin Springer, Zee Asha, Daniel Gonçalves, Keith Lomas, James Thomas Scott, Rosie Akerman, Edd Osmond, Hugh O'Brien, Georgie-May Tearle, Simon Connolly, Richard Garaghty, Sharon Rooney, Jaymes Sygrove, Charlotte Worwood, Alice Bonifacio, Jessie Vinning, Mickey Lewis, Venla Shalin, Zak Holland, Josef Davies, Angela Sant'Albano, Ragevan Vasan, Craig Thomas Lambert, Beth Willetts, Bernardo Santos, Anthony Rhodes, Jackson Kai, Emily Tebbutt, Lampros Kalfuntzos, Stuart Whelan, Jessica Barker-Wren, Tom Gaskin, Philips Nortey, Rashid Shadat, Matthew Castle, Finley Hobbins, Nico Parker, Miguel Muñoz Segura, Zenaida Alcalde, Paul Riddell, Sarah Sayuri Leung, John Southgate, Will Rowlands, Tom Seekings, and Matt Truman in Dumbo (2019)
      Dumbo
      6.2
      • concept artist (as Steve Messing)
      • 2019
    • Anthony Hopkins, Mark Wahlberg, Erik Aadahl, Jim Carter, Peter Cullen, Laura Haddock, and Isabela Merced in Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
      Transformers: The Last Knight
      5.2
      • senior illustrator
      • 2017
    • Alien: Covenant (2017)
      Alien: Covenant
      6.4
      • concept artist (as Steve Messing)
      • 2017
    • Westworld (2016)
      Westworld
      8.4
      TV Series
      • illustrator
      • 2016
    • David Costabile, James Badge Dale, Max Martini, Pablo Schreiber, Dominic Fumusa, and Alexia Barlier in 13 Hours (2016)
      13 Hours
      7.3
      • illustrator
      • 2016
    • Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
      Exodus: Gods and Kings
      6.0
      • senior illustrator
      • 2014
    • Mark Wahlberg, Peter Cullen, Nicola Peltz Beckham, and Jack Reynor in Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
      Transformers: Age of Extinction
      5.6
      • concept designer
      • 2014
    • Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Elliot Page, Michael Fassbender, Daniel Cudmore, Bingbing Fan, and Jennifer Lawrence in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
      X-Men: Days of Future Past
      7.9
      • concept designer
      • 2014
    • Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, Abigail Breslin, Asa Butterfield, and Hailee Steinfeld in Ender's Game (2013)
      Ender's Game
      6.6
      • concept designer
      • 2013
    • Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
      Star Trek Into Darkness
      7.7
      • illustrator
      • 2013
    • Nicholas Hoult and Bill Nighy in Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
      Jack the Giant Slayer
      6.3
      • concept designer
      • 2013
    • Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis, James Franco, and Michelle Williams in Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
      Oz the Great and Powerful
      6.3
      • concept designer
      • 2013
    • Peter Cullen, Shia LaBeouf, and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
      Transformers: Dark of the Moon
      6.2
      • concept artist (uncredited)
      • 2011

    Animation Department

    • Marshmello: Fly
      7.2
      Music Video
      • animator
      • 2018

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      • Steve Messing

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