Rob Legato Biography

Rob Legato creates visual illusions for movies thinking deeply both about vfx's expanding tech power and the truly new creative processes that can result. Rob won his first Oscar in 1998 for his work on James Cameron's Titanic after several years in television supervising effects on two Star Trek series. His 2012 Oscar win for Hugo, the 3D film about a boy who lives alone in a Paris train station underscores his fascinating partnership with Martin Scorsese doing digital effects on documentaries and new classics like The Departed. He's worked with the big effects houses like Sony Imageworks and Digital Domain but is now fascinated with the nimble new workflows made possible with digital tools. He designed the virtual cinematography pipeline that let James Cameron shoot Avatar like a feature film not a software project. Rob’s passion these days is finding ways to make motion capture technology serve storytelling while giving directors the flexibility to create genuine moments with their actors.

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