Cameron Waldbauer Cameron Waldbauer is a Canadian Academy Award - nominated Special Effects Supervisor who worked on the sequel . Marvel franchise . Waldbauer received his Academy Award nomination in the category Best Achievement in Visual Effects in 2015 for his work on the comic adaptation " X - Men : Days of Future Past " , directed and produced by Bryan Singer , starring Patrick Stewart , and with Famke Janssen and Kelsey Grammer . He shared this nomination as well as VES Award nomination in the category Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects - Driven Photoreal / Live Action Feature Motion Picture the same year with fellow visual effects supervisor Lou Pecora . Waldbauer also received a BAFTA Film Award nomination in the category Best Special Visual Effects in 2015 . Prior to " X - Men : Days of Future Past " , Waldbauer worked as special effects supervisor and / or special effects coordinator on the comic adaptations " X2 " ( 2003 , directed by Bryan Singer , starring Patrick Stewart and Famke Janssen , with Bruce Davison and Roger R . Cross , and produced by Stan Lee and Ralph Winter ) , " Fantastic Four " ( 2005 , produced by and featuring Stan Lee and Ralph Winter ) , " X - Men : The Last Stand " ( 2006 , with Patrick Stewart , Famke Janssen , Kelsey Grammer , Julian Christopher , and John Pyper - Ferguson and produced by Stan Lee and Ralph Winter ) , " Fantastic 4 : Rise of the Silver Surfer " ( 2007 , with Zach Grenier , produced by Stan Lee and Ralph Winter , and edited by William Hoy ) , and " X - Men Origins : Wolverine " ( 2009 , with Patrick Stewart and produced by Stan Lee , Ralph Winter , and Bryan Singer ) . Currently in pre - production , Waldbauer will also work as Visual Effects Supervisor on the 2016 sequel " X - Men : Apocalypse " , again with director , writer , and producer Bryan Singer . Other work . Also credited as Cam Waldbauer , he started his career in the special effects department in the late 1990s . He was part of the secial effects crew of the action film " Firestorm " ( 1998 , cinematography by Stephen F . Windon ) , the action comedy " Shanghai Noon " ( 2000 , cinematography by Dan Mindel ) , the science fiction thriller " Replicant " ( 2001 , with Paul McGillion and production design by Andrew Neskoromny ) , the crime comedy " The Shipment " ( 2001 ) , the horror sequel " Halloween : Resurrection " ( 2002 ) , the horror film " Hellraiser : Hellseeker " ( 2002 ) , the action comedy " I Spy " ( 2002 , with Famke Janssen and Malcolm McDowell ) , the science fiction film " I , Robot " ( 2004 , with Bruce Greenwood and James Cromwell ) , and the adventure " Eragon " ( 2006 ) . In 2007 , Waldbauer worked as special effects coordinator on the television remake of " Bionic Woman " . The eight episodes of the series featured regular Miguel Ferrer and featured fuest stars Roger R . Cross , Brian Markinson and Julian Christopher , co - producer Stephen Welke , and visual effects by Doug Drexler , Adam Lambert , Edward L . Williams , Gary Hutzel , and Kyle Toucher . Further assignments include the action thriller " Quantum of Solace " ( 2008 ) , the fantasy film " The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus " ( 2009 , with Christopher Plummer ) , the science fiction film " 2012 " ( 2009 ) , the fantasy sequel " The Twilight Saga : New Moon " ( 2009 , with Billy Burke and Michael Welch ) , the remake " The A - Team " ( 2010 ) , the action sequel " Mission : Impossible - Ghost Protocol " ( 2011 , with Simon Pegg , produced by J . J . Abrams , Bryan Burk , Jeffrey Chernov , David Ellison , Dana Goldberg , Tommy Harper , Ben Rosenblatt , and Paul Schwake , music by Michael Giacchino , casting by April Webster and Alyssa Weisberg , and costume design by Michael Kaplan ) , the action thriller " White House Down " ( 2013 ) , the fantasy sequel " Percy Jackson : Sea of Monsters " ( 2013 ) , and the science fiction thriller " Elysium " ( 2013 , with Faran Tahir and Julian Christopher ) . Waldbauer was also featured in several DVD / Blu - ray specials of " Elysium " . Most recently , Waldbauer worked as special effects supervisor on the drama " The Revenant " ( 2015 , with Tom Hardy ) and the video game adaptation " Warcraft " ( 2016 , with Clancy Brown ) .