Robert Hoffmeister (born 16 October 1969; age 55) is a visual effects sequence supervisor and digital artist at Industrial Light & Magic. As such, he was one of ILM's sequence supervisors on Star Trek. [1]
Hoffmeister graduated from Gymnasium Casimirianum and Fachhochschule Hannover in West Germany and Brunel University in West London, England. As a Senior Inferno Artist at visual effects studio Digital Renaissance, Hoffmeister worked on such German/Dutch-made films as The Little Vampire (starring Alice Krige) and Down (starring Ron Perlman). He later briefly joined Digital Domain as a Flame Artist, during which time he worked on The Time Machine (2002, written by John Logan).
Hoffmeister joined Industrial Light & Magic as a Digital Compositor in 2002. His digital compositing credits for the studio include Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), Hulk (2003, starring Eric Bana), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (starring David Andrews and Kristanna Loken), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. He was also one of ILM's digital artists on War of the Worlds, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007).
As an ILM sequence supervisor, Hoffmeister's credits include Van Helsing (2004), Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), and Mission: Impossible III (2006). The latter, like Star Trek, was directed by J.J. Abrams and co-written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Shortly thereafter, Hoffmeister was a sequence supervisor on Transformers (2005), also written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009).