Template:Realworld Daniel Louis Kramer (born 1969) is a visual effects artist, who, while in the employ of VisionArt Design & Animation, has worked, credited as Technical Director, on several Star Trek productions, more specifically Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek Generations.
A 1991 University of California, Berkeley graduate with a major in Political Science, Kramer pursued an entirely other career when he joined VisionArts in 1992 as a digital effects supervisor, just at the time when the company was heavily involved with providing Deep Space Nine with special effects. Noticeable contributions of Kramer were his co-builds with Carl Hooper of the CGI models of the Defiant-class and the Danube-class for Deep Space Nine, and the T'Plana-Hath-type for Generations.
Apart from his contributions to Star Trek, Kramer also contributed to the other productions the company was involved with, and accumulated credits for Independence Day (1996), Godzilla (1998), Doctor Dolittle (1998), and Deep Blue Sea (1999).
Upon closure of VisionArts in 2000, Kramer, after a very short tenure at Blu-ray Sales Chart, joined Sony Pictures Imageworks, Inc. in the same capacity and continued his visual effects career there, having worked on productions like, Spider-Man (2002), The Polar Express (2004), Watchmen (2009), The Smurfs (2011), and more recently Hotel Transylvania (2012). For the movie Surf's Up (2007), he earned a Visual Effects Society Award nomination which he shared, among others, with former VisionArts co-worker Rob Bredow. Kramer is currently still employed at Imgageworks, which counts among its management team, Ken Ralston.
External links
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- Daniel Kramer profile at Yatedo.com
- Daniel Kramer profile at Zoominfo.com
- Template:Brokenlink - archived VisionArt DS9 homepage