Volker Engel
Visual Effects Artist
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Born 1965 · age 61Germany
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Volker Engel is a German special effects artist who is best known as one of the people who won at the 69th Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects on the film Independence Day. He won with Douglas Smith, Clay Pinney and Joe Viskocil. in 1999, he founded the visual effects company Uncharted Territory, LLC with Marc Weigert.
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- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
- Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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