Adam Howard

Adam Howard is a special and visual effects artist who worked on all four spin-off Star Trek television series, and two feature films for the sister companies Digital Magic and Pacific Ocean Post. He was interviewed for the special Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes in on which he also worked as digital compositor.
During his time on Star Trek, Howard earned four Emmy Awards (his first two both in 1992), and an additional five Emmy Award nominations for his work on Star Trek, spanning all the television shows, he worked on and which were addended with one International Monitor Award in 1996.
== Career ==
A native of Melbourne, Australia, Howard started working as graphic designer in the art department on the Australian television shows Countdown, Australia You're Standing in It (1983-84), The Gillies Report (1984985), The Fast Lane (1986-87), The Gillies Republic (1986), The Factory (1987-88), The D Generation (1986-87), and The Gary Connolly Show (1988). He also worked as graphic designer on (1987) and the television drama Darlings of the Gods (1989).
Howard continued working as special effects animator on the Australian television series While You're Down There (1986), Fame and Misfortune (1986), and Round the Twist (1989) before he movied to California. He started to work for Digital Magic as digital compositor and visual effects animator on , The Simpsons, , , Dinosaurs (with puppeteer Michelan Sisti), (starring Richard Dean Anderson), The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992-93), Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1992), and (starring Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Barbara Babcock, Frank Collison, and Hélène Udy) and on (1992), the comedy Mastergate (1992), (1992), (1992), (1992), (1993, along with Don Greenberg, Laurie Resnick, Scott Rader, Simon Holden, Greg Stuhl, Brannon Wright, and Joe White), (1993), (1993), (1993), (1993, with Robert D. Bailey, Dave Gregory, Simon Haslett, and Peter W. Moyer), (1993), and (1993).
Further credits as visual effects artist include (1993-94) and (starring Teri Hatcher), (1993, with Janet Muswell), (1994), (1994, with Don Greenberg, Stephen Lebed, and Bill Millar), (1994), and Tales from the Crypt (1993 and 1995, along Chad Taylor), (1995), (1995), (1995), (1996), (1997), (1997), (1997), (1997, alongside several other former Star Trek VFX staffers ), (1997), (1998), , (2001), and Titus (2000), (2001), (2001), (2001), (2002), (1995-2002, along with Joe Farrell), (2003), and (2003).
Between 2003 and 2006 Howard worked for Industrial Light & Magic on such projects as (2003), (2003), (2004), (2004), (2005, with Carol Kane and Scott Thompson), (2005), (2005), (2005), (2005), (2005), (2005), (2005), J.J. Abrams' (2006), (2006), and (2006).
Since October 2006 Howard is working as freelance visual effects artist and worked as visual effects supervisor on the comedy Moola (2007), (2007), (2008, along with Jamie Baxter, Sarah Coatts, Michael Shelton, and Robert Short), and (2009).
== Star Trek credits ==
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** – visual effects supervisor
** – visual effects supervisor (uncredited)
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** – Digital Compositor (uncredited, Season 5)
** – Digital Compositor (uncredited)
** – Digital Compositor (uncredited)
** – Digital Compositor (uncredited)
** – Digital Compositor (uncredited)
** – Digital Compositor (uncredited)
** – Digital Compositor (uncredited)
** – Digital Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Animator (uncredited)
** – Digital Compositor (uncredited)
** – Digital Compositor (uncredited)
** – Digital Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Animation Supervisor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
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** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited, Season 6)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
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** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited, Season 7)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
** – Visual Effects Compositor (uncredited)
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** – visual effects animator (uncredited) (Season 1)
** – visual effects artist (uncredited) (Season 2)
** Season 3 – visual effects artist (uncredited)
** – visual effects artist (uncredited) (Season 4)
** – visual effects artist (uncredited) (Season 5)
** (Season 7)
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** – visual effects animator (Season 1)
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** – lead animator (Season 1)
==Awards for Star Trek==
Howard received the following award nominations and wins for his work on Star Trek,
=== Emmy Awards ===
Howard received the following Emmy Award wins and nominations in the category Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects/Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series for his work on Star Trek:
* Emmy Award win for the episode , shared with Robert Legato, Gary Hutzel, David Takemura, Patrick Clancey, Adrian Hurley, Don Lee, and Dennis Hoerter
* Emmy Award win for the episode , shared with Dan Curry, Ronald B. Moore, David Takemura, Erik Nash, Don Lee, Peter Sternlicht, Syd Dutton, and Robert Stromberg
* Emmy Award win for the episode , shared with Dan Curry, David Stipes, Michael Backauskas, Scott Rader, and Erik Nash
* Emmy Award win for the episode , shared with Dan Curry, David Stipes, Michael Backauskas, Joe Bauer, Edward L. Williams, Scott Rader, Don Greenberg, Don Lee, Robert Stromberg, John F.K. Parenteau, Joshua D. Rose, and Joshua Cushner
* Emmy Award nomination for the episode , shared with Glenn Neufeld, David Takemura, Erik Nash, Joshua Cushner, Les Bernstien, Patrick Clancey, and Don Lee
* Emmy Award nomination for the episode , shared with Joshua Cushner, Judy Elkins, Steve Fong, Dennis Hoerter, Gary Hutzel, Don Lee, Fredric Meininger, Glenn Neufeld, Scott Rader, Jim Rider, Joshua D. Rose
* Emmy Award nomination for the episode , shared with Gary Hutzel, Judy Elkins, Paul Maples, Adrian Hurley, Don Lee, Steve Fong, Davy Nethercutt, Kevin Bouchez, Laurie Resnick, and Gregory Jein
* Emmy Award nomination for the episode , shared with Dan Curry, Gary Hutzel, David Stipes, Adam Buckner, Arthur J. Codron, Judy Elkins, Gary Monak, Paul Maples, Steve Fong, Don Greenberg, Paul Hill, Davy Nethercutt, Kevin Bouchez, Gregory Rainoff, Larry Younger, Sherry Hitch, Rob Bonchune, and David Lombardi
* Emmy Award nomination for the episode , shared with David Stipes, Adam Buckner, Paul Hill, Gregory Rainoff, John F. Gross, Steven Joseph Rogers, Fred Pienkos, and Eddie Robison
=== International Monitor Awards ===
* International Monitor Award win in the category Film Originated Television Series – Electronic Visual Effects for VOY Season 2, shared with Dan Curry, David Stipes, Michael Backauskas, Joe Bauer, Edward L. Williams, Scott Rader, and Don Greenberg
== External links ==
* – official site
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