Frank Gravatt

Frank Gravatt was born in the San Francisco Bay Area. He began sculpting clay models at a young age and excelled in his craft. Horror movies, both old and new, have always been a fascination of his and Frank started sculpting monsters, and working with makeup to create the faces he saw in the movies. In his early career, he began working at various retail chains until he landed a job as a maintenance worker at Industrial Light & Magic. While working at ILM he brought his clay models into the office for his coworkers to see and soon landed a job in the CG model dept. His first credited movie was Mars Attacks (1995) as a digital modeler. Frank went on to create for movies such as Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, several Harry Potter films, Van Helsing, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, and War of the Worlds. He was nominated for a Visual Effects Society (VES) award in 2003 for "Best Character Animation in a Live Action Motion Picture" for his work in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). He was nominated again and won, a VES award in 2012 for "Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture" for his work in Rango (2011). Frank was again nominated for "Outstanding Animated Character in a Live-Action Feature Motion Picture" in 2014 for his work in Pacific Rim. He has since worked on movies such as The Revenant, Captain America: Civil War, and Transformers: The Last Knight. He lives in the Bay area with his daughter and two sons.