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Nickson Fong was born on 1969 in Singapore, is a Filmmaker, Director, VFX Supervisor. Discover Nickson Fong's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

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Occupation Filmmaker, Director, VFX Supervisor
Age 54 years old
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Born , 1969
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Birthplace Singapore
Nationality Singapore

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Nickson Fong Net Worth

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2007

He also founded Egg Story Digital Arts Academy in July 2007; it was sold in 2010 at its peak of 250 students and rebranded to ArtFusion Media. One of Nickson's ongoing projects is Kung Fu Gecko (working title). An action romantic comedy set a millennium ago in China, it had a budget of roughly US$20/30 million; a trailer being released in 2005,.

2004

At the National Day Rally 2004, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong praised Fong for his efforts.

2003

Fong has received the 2003 "Outstanding Alumni" award from the Savannah College of Arts and Design.

2000

Now based in Taipei Republic of China, and Los Angeles. Fong is known for co-inventing and publishing, along with two others, in 2000, an animating technique known as the "Pose Space Deformation", which makes animated characters' features more lifelike. This algorithm has been used widely in films, such as Spider-Man (2002) and Avatar (2009). and many other Hollywood films. Fong was awarded with an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Awards on February 9, at the Academy of Sci-Tech Awards presentation. Among many other films, Fong worked as Senior Technical Director for The Matrix Reloaded (2003), as well as Starship Troopers (1997), Stuart Little (1999) and Shrek (2001) returned to Singapore and founded production company Egg Story Creative Production in 2004; Fong decided to focus on content development and pre-production in 2009 and he established another production company, Egg Story Studios and Re'al Sandbox.

1996

An animated short film by Fong caught the attention of DreamWorks Animation when it was showcased at SIGGRAPH 1996, an annual animation conference, and shortly after, he landed a job at DreamWorks. From then on, he was based in Los Angeles, California.

1994

Sent by his father for art lessons since three, Fong studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design after getting a diploma at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts; he graduated from the college in 1994. Prior to him obtaining his master's degree in computer art at Savannah, Fong studied at Saint Andrew's Secondary School. There, he was a "school dropout who flunked his exams every year." His school's principal was quoted as telling Fong's mother:

Nickson's early films are heavily influenced by HR Giger and Hayao Miyazaki. In early 90s Nickson directed and produced "Screamscape" a CGI animated short film in collaboration with Dr. Seah Hock Soon (Professor School of Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University) Special Thanks to Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. In 1994, Nickson started working on his graduation project "Dreamaker" a CGI animated Short at Savannah College of Art and Design it was accepted at the Siggraph'96 Electronic Theater - Nickson Fong was the first student at Savannah College of Art Design to have an animated short film accepted at the Siggraph'96 Electronic Theater competing with professional in the animation industry.

1993

His first animation job was at Future Pirates in 1993, a Japanese game developer based in Tokyo, where he worked in the computer graphics department for a year.

1969

Nickson Fong (born 1969) is a Singaporean Computer Graphics Artist and the first Singaporean to receive an Academy Award.