Kevin Blank Kevin Blank is a visual effects artist who worked as visual effects coordinator on the two first season episodes and . Born in Los Angeles , California , Blank worked as a digital artist on the fantasy adventure " Mortal Kombat : Annihilation " ( 1997 , with visual effects staff Leif Einarsson , Mike Goslin , Paul Hill , Brian Hanable , Evan Jacobs , Kevin Kutchaver , David Lebovitz , Ralph Maiers , Wendy Mashburn , Jeff Matakovich , W . Regan McGee , Janet Quen , Mark Spatny , Talmage Watson , Bob Wiatr , Chris Y . Yang , Chris DeAngelis , and Mark Edwards ) and the comic adaptation " Blade " ( 1998 ) , and as visual effects supervisor on the television movie " Jeff of the Universe " ( 1999 ) . Between 1996 and 1999 he served as visual effects artist , visual effects coordinator , visual effects supervisor , and visual effects consultant on the fantasy series " Hercules : The Legendary Journeys " , " Xena : Warrior Princess " , and " Young Hercules " . Further credits as visual effects supervisor include the drama series " City of Angels " ( 2000 ) , the horror thriller " Krocodylus " ( 2000 ) , the fantasy film " Shu shan zheng zhuan " ( 2001 ) , the television drama " The Secret Service " ( 2004 ) , and the comedy " EuroTrip " ( 2004 ) . Between 2001 and 2009 he worked mostly on projects created , written and / or directed by J . J . Abrams . Between 2001 and 2006 he worked as visual effects supervisor on the spy series " Alias " ( with visual effects staff Armen V . Kevorkian , David R . Morton , Paul Hill , Bill Mather , Steve Fong , John F . Gross , Eric Hance , Steven Lloyd , and Fred Pienkos ) , between 2004 and 2007 as visual effects supervisor on the fantasy series " Lost " ( with Mitch Suskin , Fred Pienkos , John Karner , Steve Fong , Bruce Branit , Armen V . Kevorkian , Kevin Kutchaver , and John Hirota ) , and as visual effects supervisor on the television pilot " The Catch " ( 2005 ) , the action sequel " Mission : Impossible III " ( 2006 ) , the science fiction thriller " Cloverfield " ( 2008 ) , the pilot episode of " Fringe " ( 2008 , with Davy Nethercutt and Kevin Quattro ) , and the television pilot " Anatomy of Hope " ( 2009 ) . His collaboration with Abrams earned him an Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series in 2005 for the pilot episode of " Lost " , shared with Mitch Suskin , Kevin Kutchaver , and Steve Fong , and two Emmy Award nominations for the " Lost " episodes " Live Together , Die Alone , Part I and II " in 2006 , shared with Mitch Suskin , Steve Fong , and Eric Chauvin , and for the " Fringe " pilot episode in 2009 , shared with Steve Fong . In addition , Blank won three Visual Effects Society Awards in 2005 for the " Lost " pilot episode , shared with Mitch Suskin , in 2006 for the " Lost " episode " Exodus , Part 2 " , shared with Eric Chauvin and John Teska , and in 2009 for the " Fringe " pilot episode . He received three more VSE Award nominations in 2006 for the " Alias " episode " The Index " , shared with Armen V . Kevorkian and Eric Chauvin , in 2007 for the " Alias " episodes " Reprisal " and " All the Time in the World " , shared with Steve Fong and Kevin Kutchaver , and in 2009 for " Cloverfield " , shared with Mike Ellis . More recently he worked as visual effects supervisor on Brannon Braga ' s science fiction series " Flash Forward " ( 2009 , with Tom Mahoney ) .