Steven Messing

Steven Messing is a concept illustrator and visual effects matte artist who worked on . Among his concept work for this film was the creation of the surface of the Ketha Province on Qo'noS and the red forest on Nibiru. 
In 1998, Messing worked as intern during the production of which featured Ronny Cox. In the 2000s, he started to receive credit as digital matte artist while working for the companies Matte World Digital and Digital Backlot on projects such as (2006), (2007), (2007, art direction by Keith P. Cunningham), (2007, starring Kirsten Dunst and James Cromwell), (2007), (2008), (2008), (2009), and (2008).
In 2009, Messing worked as digital matte artist for CIS Hollywood on with Rachel Nichols and as matte artist on (2009) and . For his work on , Messing received his first Excellence in Production Design Award in the category Fantasy Film from the Art Director's Guild in 2010.
Further credits as concept illustrator and digital matte artist, mostly for the company Crazy Horse Effects, include (2010) for which he received another Excellence in Production Design Award nomination in the category Fantasy Film in 2011, (2010), (2011), (2012) for which he earned another Excellence in Production Design Award nomination in 2013, (2012), (2013), (2013), and (2013).
Following his work on Star Trek: Into Darkness, Messing worked for Pixomondo on (2013), as visual effects art director on (2014), and as concept designer on (2014, directed by Bryan Singer and starring Patrick Stewart) and on (2014). He was senior illustrator on (2014) and matte artist on (2014).
Between 2010 and 2014, he worked first as digital matte artist and later as visual effects art director on and between 2014 and 2015 as visual effects art director on . His work on Black Sails earned him a Primetime Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Special and Visual Effects in a Supporting Role in 2014. Messing also worked as visual effects artist on the fifth season of in 2015.
Further projects he worked on include (2015), (2015), and (2015) for which Messing won an Excellence in Production Design Award in the category Contemporary Film in 2016.
More recent projects as visual effects concept designer include (2016), (2016, also directed by Bryan Singer), and (2017, written by John Logan).
== Star Trek award ==
=== ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards nomination ===
Messing received an ADG Excellence in Production Design Award nomination as Set Designer in the category Fantasy Film
* for , shared with Scott Chambliss, Ramsey Avery, James Clyne, Lauren Polizzi, Kasra Farahani, Michael E. Goldman, Harry E. Otto, Andrew E.W. Murdock, Jason Baldwin Stewart, Natasha Gerasimova, Steve Christensen, Andrea Dopaso, John Eaves, Nathan Schroeder, Ryan Church, Christopher Ross, Victor Martinez, Anne Porter, Karl Strahlendorf, John Chichester, Tex Kadonaga, Kevin Cross, Andrew Reeder, Jane Wuu, Richard F. Mays, Allen Coulter, Karl Martin, Scott Schneider, Lorrie Campbell, Easton Smith, Tammy Lee, Tim Croshaw, Clint Schultz, and Karen Manthey
== External links ==
* – official site
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Category:ADG Excellence in Production Design Award nominees