Robert Stromberg

Robert Stromberg is an Emmy Award and Academy Award winning visual effects artist, specialized in matte paintings, who worked for Bill Taylor and Syd Dutton as part of their company Illusion Arts, Inc. on Star Trek: First Contact, the Star Trek: The Next Generation third and fifth season episodes "The Best of Both Worlds" and "A Matter Of Time", the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine second season episode "Tribunal" and the Star Trek: Voyager first season episode "Caretaker". For "Tribunal", Stromberg created the matte painting of Cardassia Prime and for "Caretaker" created the matte paintings for the Ocampa underground city. During his time on Star Trek, Stromberg earned one Emmy Award nomination and two wins. He made his directorial debut with the 2014 Disney film Maleficent, a re-imagining of the iconic Disney villain. Stromberg earned an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Special Visual Effects in 1995 for his work on the television drama Fatherland, shared with Richard Patterson and David S. Williams, Jr., In 2008 he won another Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special for the John Adams episode Join Or Die, for which he also won two Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Created Environment in a Broadcast Program or Commercial and for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Miniseries, Movie or…