Todd Vaziri Todd Vaziri is an award - winning visual effects artist at Industrial Light & Magic . He recently worked as a digital artist for ' s as part of ILM ' s visual effects team . " Star Trek " marks the second time Vaziri and ILM have worked with director / producer J . J . Abrams ; they previously collaborated on the 2006 Paramount Pictures release " Mission : Impossible III " . Vaziri was the composite sequence supervisor on this film . Vaziri began his career in visual effects in 1998 as a 2D Supervisor and Lead Digital Artist at Banned from the Ranch Entertainment ( BFTRE or BFRE ) . For BFRE , Vaziri was a digital artist for such films as " Doctor Dolittle " and " A Midsummer Night ' s Dream " and a computer graphics artist on films like the 1999 romantic comedy " Forces of Nature " ( featuring Ronny Cox and Jack Kehler ) and the 2000 science fiction thriller " Hollow Man " ( featuring Jimmie F . Skaggs ) . He was also the computer graphics supervisor on the popular 1999 comedy " American Pie " and the lead digital artist on 1999 films such as " Inspector Gadget " ( featuring Rene Auberjonois and Andy Dick ) , " Stir of Echoes " ( featuring Jennifer Morrison ) , and " Drive Me Crazy " ( starring Stephen Collins ) . In 1999 , Vaziri was hired as a digital composite artist by Flat Earth Productions . During his tenure at Flat Earth , Vaziri worked on the popular television series " Xena : Warrior Princess " , " Hercules : The Legendary Journeys " , and " Charmed " . He was also lead compositor on 2000 ' s feature film adaptation of " Dungeons & Dragons " ( starring Lee Arenberg ) and several other films . Vaziri moved on to Pixel Magic , where he worked as a compositor or digital artist on films such as " Little Nicky " ( featuring Clint Howard , Tommy " Tiny " Lister , Jr . and Michael McKean ) , " 3000 Miles to Graceland " ( starring Christian Slater ) , " Heartbreakers " ( featuring Sarah Silverman ) , " Original Sin " ( featuring Gregory Itzin ) , and " Scary Movie 2 " . He was also Pixel Magic ' s supervising compositor on the films " Driven " and " Hart ' s War " . Since joining ILM in 2001 , Vaziri has been a digital or composite artist on such films as " Star Wars : Episode II : Attack of the Clones " , " Star Wars : Episode III : Revenge of the Sith " ( working for the first time with " M : i : III " and " Star Trek " visual effects supervisor Roger Guyett ) , " Hulk " ( starring Eric Bana ) , " Pirates of the Caribbean : The Curse of the Black Pearl " ( featuring Lee Arenberg , Greg Ellis , and Zoe Saldana ) , " Pirates of the Caribbean : Dead Man ' s Chest " ( also featuring Lee Arenberg ) , " Van Helsing " , " Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow " , " War of the Worlds " , " Chicken Little " ( featuring the voices of Patrick Stewart and Wallace Shawn ) , and " Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire " . Vaziri was even ILM ' s visual effects supervisor for " Stephen Colbert ' s Green Screen Challenge , " a segment for the 11 October 2006 episode of Comedy Central ' s " The Colbert Report " . More recently , Vaziri was ILM ' s compositing supervisor for the 2007 blockbuster , " Transformers " ( which , like " Star Trek " and " M : i : III " , was written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci ) . For his work on this film , Vaziri won the 2007 Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Compositing in a Motion Picture . Since then , Vaziri ' s work with ILM has continued as digital artist for the films " Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull " , " Speed Racer " , and " Transformers : Revenge of the Fallen " .