Kevin Rafferty has been a leading force in visual effects and computer animation for over 25 years.

His most recent project, the eagerly anticipated The Day The Earth Stood Still, will be released world-wide on December 12, 2008.

For the first half of 2008 he was at Café FX, supervising the epic Visual Effects in The Battle of Red Cliff, directed by John Woo. 

In 2007, Rafferty supervised the visual effects filming on set for Alvin and the Chipmunks, a holiday hit both domestically and worldwide that year. 

Earlier, he supervised visual effects production at locations and on the sets of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer for Weta Digital.

Prior to that, Rafferty supervised the Cannes Film Festival’s critical darling The Host , a Korean creature feature directed by Joon-ho Bong. The Host went on to be the biggest film South Korean box offices have ever seen. With The Orphanage, Rafferty has recently received the award for Best Visual Effects on The Host at The Asian Film Awards .

Rafferty has also supervised a number of commercial campaigns at The Orphanage including a four spot campaign for PG&E out of Venables, Bell & Partners directed by Philippe Andre as well as a Sprint/BMW spot out of Publicis Hal Riney directed by Oskar Holmedal and Henry Moore Selder of StyleWar.

Previously, he was enlisted by Dreamworks Animation to design, implement and oversee the entire computer graphics pipeline used to create the blockbuster CG feature Shark Tale, at the company’s Southern California computer animation studio.

During his nine years as visual effects supervisor, digital effects supervisor and senior visual effects artist at Industrial Light + Magic, Rafferty contributed to nine major films, including Star Wars: Episode One, The Perfect Storm, Jurassic Park: The Lost World, and Dragonheart , all of which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects.

Before joining ILM, Rafferty was a senior animator at Pacific Data Images, the studio responsible for the Shrek films. At PDI, Rafferty contributed to nine major film including Cliffhanger and Batman Returns.

Rafferty began his career in visual effects at Digital Productions where he was part of a group that received a Scientific Achievement award for Digital Scene Simulation at the 1985 Academy Awards. This was recognition for the ground-breaking digital effects in the film The Last Starfighter.

Rafferty received his Masters degree in Architecture from UCLA and his undergraduate degree from Stanford.