Frederic St-Arnaud

Frederic St-Arnaud () is a visual effect artist with 15 years of experience, focusing on high-end photo-realistic digital Matte Painting (also known as Matte Art or Digimatte), set extension and concept art in the film industry. Art direction, team supervision and teaching became recently new fields of interest. Mixing technical and artistic skills, St-Arnaud has contributed to many feature films, commercials television and a TV series. His film credits include Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Death Race, Babel, Silent Hill, Sin City, Sky captain and the world of tomorrow, Once upon a time in Mexico, Spy kids 2 & 3, The Golden Compass which won the best visual effects Academy Awards in 2008 and more.

St-Arnaud originally intended to pursue his life as a movie make-up effects artist while in his teens, until the first important computer generated visual effects appeared on screens such as Terminator 2 and Toy Story. After studying Fine Arts and Communication Arts at Laval University, he moved to Montreal (Canada) in 1997 to study 3D animation and traditional cartoon. He began his career as a storyboard artist and character animator. In 2001, he decided to become a texture artist t...