Joe Conti (born 1 February 1963; age 62) is a visual effects artist, producer and supervisor who worked as video toaster (hardware/software combination utilizing the first commercial version of the LightWave 3D software) contractor for Digital Magic on the Star Trek: The Next Generation seventh season episode "Sub Rosa" in 1994 where he, together with Tim McHugh, worked on the CGI anaphasic lifeform, the first LightWave CGI effect for the franchise.
Conti worked as CGI, 3D, and digital effects supervisor and animator on seaQuest DSV (1993, with John F.K. Parenteau and Robert Bonchune at Amblin Imaging), Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995, with Kevin Kutchaver), and Xena: Warrior Princess (1995) and the television movies Hercules and the Amazon Women (1994) and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys – Hercules and the Lost Kingdom (1994). He also worked on Trinity and Beyond (1995, narrated by William Shatner), Nixon (1995), Courage Under Fire (1996, with Syd Dutton, Robert Stromberg, Bill Taylor, and Daren Dochterman), Panic in the Skies! (1996), Men in Black (1997), The Siege (1998, with Robert Stromberg and Rich Thorne), Black Hawk Down (2001), Kate & Leopold (2001), and Bugs (2003) on which he also worked as writer and director.
In 2008, Conti worked as special effects supervisor, producer, editor, and director on Army of the Dead. Further credits in the visual effects department include Linewatch (2008), Hardwired (2009), Brothers (2009, with Patrick Clancey), Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden (2012) and Raptor Ranch (2012). The Army of the Dead and Hardwired movies he worked upon as "Conti Films Inc." (credited as such, but registered as "Contifilm L.L.C." [1]), his own production company, he operated shortly around 2008-2009.
External links[]
- Joseph Conti at the Internet Movie Database
- Contifilms at the Internet Movie Database