Geoffrey Kater
- Visual Effects
- Animation Department
- Art Department
Geoffrey Kater is a futurist designer, Art Director, Producer and
Director who studied Transportation Design at the Art Center College of
Design in Pasadena. He has worked with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL) on the design of a Pluto space vehicle, and his automotive design
work has won awards from two National industrial design competitions.
Kater's work has been published in Business Week, Car Styling and
Popular Hot Rodding magazines, and one of his spaceship designs
currently hangs in the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. In TV, he
has worked as a prop designer, production designer, 3D animator and
illustrator for Street Sharks, Thumb Wars, The Avengers, and Where on
Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? and held the key post of spaceship designer
and 3D modeler/animator on Saban and Marvel's Silver Surfer series,
faithfully adapting the legendary style of Jack Kirby into the 3D
world. He co-founded S4 Studios in 1999 for the production of animation
for commercials, trailers, TV shows and feature film VFX.