Adam Buckner

Adam has over 15 years experience in production and post-production for film, television & commercials. He has won an International Monitor Award for Best Visual Effects and received two Emmy Award Nominations for Best Visual Effects for his work on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Adam is co-owner and operator of Privateer Pictures . Privateer Pictures... is a collaboration between Myf Hopkins, former Head of Production at Jim Henson's Creature Shop and Adam Buckner, an award winning Visual Effects Supervisor and Director. As a Visual Effects Supervisor, Adam has worked on feature films, including Mee-Shee: The Water Giant, The Impossible Elephant, Almost America, several television series and numerous commercials. As well as developing, planning and executing the visual effects sequences, he has often acted as 2nd Unit director, enhancing his experience in all areas of visual and special effects production and direction. Adam worked at Paramount Pictures for several seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Enterprise. At Rainmaker Digital in Vancouver he supervised visual effects on many projects including, as in-house digital supervisor, episodes of Stargate SG-1, Dark Angel, and Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. Adam is an experienced compositor and digital artist, having worked on features and television including Xena: The Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and Babylon 5. Recently Adam has started a video game division for Privateer Pictures: The Ant Ranch . The Ant Ranch is currently producing a number of titles for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Adam is also a film director who has directed more than 10 short films and numerous theatre projects.Read More