Aldo Ruggiero

With 2 Emmy and 2 VES nominations, as well as over 15 years of experience in the industry, Aldo leads with a unique breadth of knowledge, experience and flexibility. His approach blends technical knowledge and artistic sensitivity, with experience touching all aspects of production and post-production.

As a VFX supervisor, he has worked on a variety of Feature Films and Episodic TV, ever expanding his understanding of this dynamic field, including productions by Marvel, Disney, AppleTV and many others. He intuitively addresses client needs with understanding, foresight and innovation, expertly implementing tried and true techniques, developing new solutions to old problems, or creating entirely new effects for the latest effect-hungry climate.

As an artist he worked on thousands of shots for more than 30 different TV shows and movies, creating highly realistic looking water effects for the show The Last Resort, killing walkers in The Walking Dead, generating thousands of spectators for stadiums of all sizes, and generally just exploding, shattering and torching evil of all creeds, as well as messing around generating terrains, clouds and oceans, nicely reflecting the creative fun and intentional innovation at Crafty Apes.

As a programmer and former lead technical director and head of pipeline development, behind the scenes he has written tools and code that created studio efficiencies and creative solutions for major VFX studios.