
Person
Van Ling
Visual Effects
Biography
Van Ling is a visual effects supervisor, film producer and creator of DVD menus for many popular movies, including the Star Wars DVDs. Ling graduated summa cum laude from the USC School of Cinema-Television. He began his career as a visual effects supervisor for The Abyss and became head of production on Lightstorm Entertainment, for which he continued with many major motion pictures and television, including Titanic, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Walking Dead, Starship Troopers, Dr. Dolittle, Vanilla Sky and many others.[3] He had a brief cameo in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic, as the Chinese man, who was in real-life, a Chinese passenger booked under the name of Fang Lang (original name Wing Sun Fong, 方榮山), whom Fifth Officer Harold Lowe rescued from the sea. Van is also an active member of the Visual Effect Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Producers Guild of America and the Visual Effects Society, the latter in which he served six terms as Board of Directors. He wrote and directed Cliffs of Freedom, an indie drama film starring Christopher Plummer, Billy Zane, Lance Henriksen, Tania Raymonde, Jan Uddin, Raza Jaffrey, Patti LuPone, Costas Mandylor, and Kevin Corrigan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Van Ling, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for

Titanic
Chinese Man

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Cyberdyne Tech

Men in Black
Sound Designer

Starship Troopers
Visual Effects Supervisor

The Abyss
Producer

Not Another Teen Movie
Visual Effects Supervisor

Doctor Dolittle
Visual Effects Supervisor

Deep Rising
Visual Effects Supervisor

Soldier
Visual Effects Supervisor

Stir of Echoes
Visual Effects Supervisor
Filmography
- 2022Jurassic PunkSelf
- 2019Cliffs of FreedomDirector
- 2011Last Man StandingVisual Effects Supervisor
- 2003No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital EffectsProducer
- 2001Not Another Teen MovieVisual Effects Supervisor
- 2001Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator'Producer
- 1999Stir of EchoesVisual Effects Supervisor
- 1998SoldierVisual Effects Supervisor
- 1998Doctor DolittleVisual Effects Supervisor
- 1998Deep RisingVisual Effects Supervisor
- 1997TitanicChinese Man
- 1997Starship TroopersVisual Effects Supervisor
- 1997Men in BlackSound Designer
- 1993Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'Executive Producer
- 1993T2: More Than Meets the EyeDirector
- 1991Terminator 2: Judgment DayCyberdyne Tech
- 1989The AbyssProducer
- 1986The Man Who Loved Fat DancingSound
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