David Seager
Production Overall VFX Supervisor, TRON: Ares, Industrial Light & Magic
David Seager is a VES Award-nominated Visual Effects Supervisor with over 27 years of experience. He most recently served as the Production-side Visual Effects Supervisor on the Director Joachim Rønning’s highly anticipated film, Tron: Ares where he supervised over 2,100 VFX shots. The work ranged from a location‐based chase scene, integrating stunts, SFX, and VFX to bring lightcycles into the real world, to fully CG battles in the Grid.
Before Tron: Ares, he oversaw ILM’s work on Tony Gilroy’s critically-acclaimed Star Wars series Andor and Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. He also contributed to Jon Favreau’s episodic series The Book of Boba Fett.
For his contributions to Michael Waldron’s Loki for Marvel, Seager was honored with the HPA and VES award nomination for Best Visual Effects. As Visual Effects Supervisor on Loki, Seager led the team responsible for the Void, including its environment, the Loki Alligator, Alioth, and FX magic, as well as the Time Theater sequences in episode one.
Previously, he received the Saturn Award nomination for Best Special Effects for Guy Ritchie’s live-action Aladdin and an HPA Award nomination for Outstanding Visual Effects for his work on the fantasy adventure film Maleficent, directed by Robert Stromberg.
With a career spanning from everything to pipeline engineering and shader writing to supervision at every level, Seager brings both highly technical and artistic expertise in leading a team to deliver the highest quality work on complex projects.
SELECT CREDITS
2025 TRON: ARES (not yet released) – Production Visual Effects Supervisor
2022 ANDOR S1 – Visual Effects Supervisor
2022 BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER – Visual Effects Supervisor
2021 THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT – Visual Effects Supervisor
2021 LOKI S1 – Visual Effects Supervisor
HPA Award Nomination - Outstanding Visual Effects in an Episode
VES Award Nomination - Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode
2021 THE ETERNALS – Visual Effects Supervisor
2020 WE CAN BE HEROES – Visual Effects Supervisor
2019 TERMINATOR: DARK FATE – Visual Effects Supervisor
2019 ALADDIN – Visual Effects Supervisor
Saturn Award Nomination - Best Special Effects