Ariel Velasco-Shaw

Ariel Velasco-Shaw is a Filipino-American visual effects supervisor who is best known for his work of Disney Renaissance films and Final Destination franchise.
Career
Velasco-Shaw began his career in 1984, when he joined the New York Institute of Technology, researching digital imaging. In 1989, he joined Walt Disney Feature Animation, where he established a dedicated digital imaging department.
As a film coordinator and supervisor, he worked on the Disney Renaissance films The Rescuers Down Under (1990), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and The Lion King (1994), along with Touchstone's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), which was nominated the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, the first Filipino-or Filipino-American-to be nominated an Academy Award.
Velasco-Shaw left Disney to work for Boss Film Studios, where he worked on films including True Lies, The Scout and Drop Zone (all in 1994). He then worked at Warner Digital Studios on the films Batman Forever (1995) and Contact (1997), alongside with other films Lethal Weapon 4, Armageddon and Soldier (all in 1998).
In 1998, he was nominated a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for his work on the HBO series From the Earth to the Moon, the first Filipino-or Filipino-American-to be nominated in that category.

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