Mack Kevin

Kevin Mack is a pioneering Digital Artist and Academy Award winning Visual Effects Supervisor. He received the Oscar for his work on the film “What Dreams May Come”. His other film credits include “Speed Racer”, “Ghost Rider”, “Big Fish”, “Fight Club”, “A Beautiful Mind”, “Vanilla Sky”, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”, “Apollo 13″, “The Fifth Element” and many more.

The son of Disney artists, Kevin was tutored in art by his parents and their artist friends.  At 16, he received a scholarship for drawing classes at Art Center College of Design. At 18, he was the youngest student to be accepted into the college program, where he studied Fine Art, Illustration and Film.

After college, Mack worked in the film industry doing traditional glass matte paintings, scenic paintings, sculpting, model making, animation, storyboards and set design, all the while continuing to pursue his own art and music.

In the mid-eighties, Kevin began experimenting with computers to make his art and music. Recognizing it’s potential for film work, he helped pioneer the use of computer graphics for visual effects and became one of the industry’s most innovative leaders.  Recently he received an honorary Doctorate of Science degree from Art Center for his contributions to the field of motion picture visual effects.

Mack’s work is the result of ongoing research in a wide range of fields from the mathematics of complexity to neuroscience and human perception.  His work in Artificial Life and Rule Based Systems, used on “What Dreams May Come” and “Fight Club”, inspired the development of tissue simulation software that is now being used for virtual stem cell research.  In 2006, Mack received the title of Honorary Neuroscientist, from UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, for his lectures there on perception, visualization and creativity.

Mack’s visionary abstract dimensional images and animations explore infinity, complexity, perception and consciousness and have been exhibited at The Siggraph Art Gallery, Cannibal Flower, The Hive, The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art and Sony Pictures Imageworks. in 1998, Kevin’s animated film “Annihilation Becomes Creation Through a Stretch of the Imagination” was featured in the Siggraph Electronic Theater. This year he created an abstract animated piece for the opening of the new Siggraph Computer Animation Festival at the Nokia theater in Los Angeles. He also exhibited works in the Siggraph Art Gallery. Kevin will be exhibiting several pieces in the Visual Amalgam event at the James Gray Gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica in October.

Mack is a native of Los Angeles, California, where he lives with his wife, artist Snow Mack and their sons, Jon and Ray.