Sheldon Stopsack

He has just wrapped on Laika Studios’ Wildwood.

In 2025 he was VFX Supervisor on Jared Hess’s A Minecraft Movie and Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator: Badlands.

On Gemini Man, he led Wētā’s breakthrough development in the facial technology that was used to create the younger and entirely digital Will Smith and establishing a new industry-standard for CG human characters.

Sheldon has a particular interest in creating digital characters—particularly humans—and led Wētā FX’s work on DC film Black Adam, Jaume Collet-Serra’s action thriller Carry On and an episode of HBO Max Original Our Flag Means Death.

Sheldon supervised visual effects on Terminator Genisys, where he led the pioneering creation of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s photo-real younger digi double. He followed this up by serving as Visual Effects Supervisor on Terminator: Dark Fate and The Tomorrow War.

Prior to Wētā, Sheldon was a CG Supervisor at MPC where he led 3D teams on effects-heavy blockbusters such as Guardians of the Galaxy, X-Men: Days of Futures Past, Total Recall and Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma.

Sheldon’s early career started in lighting and look development, leading him to take lead roles on films such as X-Men: First Class, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.