Evan Jacobs

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Evan Jacobs (born 1968 in Michigan) is a visual effects supervisor and director. Jacobs has overseen visual effects and served as miniatures supervisor on the feature films such as Ed Wood,^[1] The Hunt for Red October, What the #$*! Do We Know?!^[2], and Resident Evil: Extinction.^[3]

Jacobs was born in Michigan and moved to California in the early 1970s with his family. He made short films with a camera he received as a gift, and later studied acting at South Coast Repertory and Milton Katselas' Beverly Hills Playhouse.

Jacobs worked with Boss Film Studios, Fantasy II Film Effects, then co-founded Vision Crew Unlimited in 1994. After the company closed, he worked independently, spent two years at Digital Domain, then went to Mr X Inc. in Toronto in 2005.^[4] In 2007 Jacobs supervised visual effects for Resident Evil: Extinction, Walk Hard and Ben 10: Race Against Time for which he was nominated for Outstanding Visual Effects by the Visual Effects Society.^[5]

In 1998, Jacobs was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a miniseries for HBO's From the Earth to the Moon.

Jacobs is an active member of the Producers Guild of America and the Visual Effects Society. He was an instructor for the Entertainment Studies Extension Program at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) for three years.