privately held company industry visual effects cgi animation founded 1993 headquarters hollywood california united states key people william mesa john mesa emily wallin jeremy nelson lincoln kupchak number of employees 50 website 1 flash film works is a computer graphics company that provides visual effects for films television shows and commercials . it is owned by director william mesa and is located in los angeles california . contents 1 history 2 awards 3 selected visual effects filmography 4 external links history edit in 1993 visual effects supervisor william mesa left introvision international to direct the low budget science fiction film galaxis . to create the effects work for the film mesa formed his own effects company which he dubbed flash film works . as an independent visual effects company they were hired by new line cinema to work on wes craven s new nightmare . this work led to them getting work on other films . john dykstra hired flash film works for work on the warner brothers motion picture batman and robin creating a digital matte painting of an ice laden gotham city as well as performing some rig and wire removal work on the film . for tale of the mummy flash film works created 3 d mummy wrappings which unraveled and reformed into the mummy . flash film works also worked on the adam sandler comedy the waterboy during this time as well as the renny harlin killer shark flick deep blue sea . for the science fiction film red planet flash film works created various monitor display screens and interactive holographic monitors along with over 150 other shots for the film including many wire removal shots to create the illusion of the actors floating in space . in the year 2001 flash film works worked on the eddie murphy science fiction film the adventures of pluto nash creating computer generated moonscapes for the actors to walk through . for the arnold schwarzenegger action film collateral damage flash film works was responsible for over 200 visual effects shots including creating cg helicopters and debris multiple rig and wire removal shots and several other types of shots as well . for the andy davis directed film holes based on the book by louis sachar william mesa was the visual effects supervisor as well as the second unit director . for the film flash film works created and animated 3d lizards designed and composited the god s thumb mountain range and added desert and holes to many shots as well as considerable additional work . flash film works big project for 2003 was the ed zwick directed film the last samurai starring tom cruise . flash film works performed around 200 effects shots on this film including cg arrows matte painting compositing armies and face replacements . flash film works created a cg storm for several sequences in the guardian and creating backgrounds for blood diamond . they later worked on clash of the titans and the pacific . awards edit flash film works won a number of advertising industry awards for its work on the series of onstar television commercials which featured batman driving the onstar equipped batmobile . flash film works won the visual effects society award for best supporting visual effects for its work on the motion picture the last samurai in 2004 . in 2010 they won two ves awards for the pacific for outstanding visual effects in a broadcast mini series movie or special and for outstanding compositing in a broadcast series or commercial . flash film works in 2010 won a primetime emmy award for its visual effects work on the hbo mini series the pacific . selected visual effects filmography edit wes craven s new nightmare 1994 cutthroat island 1995 batman & robin 1997 tale of the mummy 1998 very bad things 1998 the waterboy 1998 deep blue sea 1999 red planet 2000 collateral damage 2002 death to smoochy 2002 the adventures of pluto nash 2002 birds of prey pilot 2002 holes 2003 the last samurai 2003 the perfect score 2004 white chicks 2004 ghost whisperer pilot 2005 dark water 2005 elizabethtown 2005 the guardian 2006 blood diamond 2006 defiance 2008 the day the earth stood still 2008 all about steve 2009 the pacific 2010 clash of the titans 2010 dragon age redemption 2011 dolphin tale 2011 dolphin tale 2 2014 against the sun 2014 the librarians 2014 15 spy 2015 barely lethal 2015 jack reacher never go back 2016 geostorm 2017 external links edit official website flash film works at the internet movie database article on the companies work on last samurai article about the vfx work on the guardian another article on the guardian retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title flash film works & oldid 734096621 categories visual effects companiesprivately held companies based in california navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to 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