Robin Hollander

Robin Hollander is a Swiss-born visual effects supervisor at Wētā FX. Originally from Zurich, Switzerland, he began his career in the visual effects industry in London at MPC, where he worked on early projects including Troy (2004), Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), and Sunshine (2007). In 2006, Hollander joined the New Zealand-based visual effects company Wētā FX as a compositor on The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007). Over the following years, he advanced through senior and supervisory compositing positions on major franchises, including Avatar (2009) as lead compositor. His work on Avarar (2009) earned him a Hollywood Post Alliance Award for Outstanding Compositing and a Visual Effects Society nomination. He continued to build his career on high-profile films, serving in key compositing and supervisory capacities on The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013), for which he received another VES nomination, and on War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), where his work was part of the team honored with the VES Award for Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature. At Wētā FX, Hollander has been involved in creating proprietary tools and workflows that support the company's production pipeline across multiple projects. Hollander has led the effects work on a variety of films, including the creature-driven action comedy Cocaine Bear (2023). At the Hollywood Post Alliance Awards, he won Outstanding Compositing – Feature Directors or Avatar (2009), shared with his compositing team. He won the Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Compositing Feature for War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), shared with Christoph Salzmann, Ben Warner, and Beck Veitch. He was also nominated for the VES Awards for Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013), shared with Charles Tait, Giuseppe Tagliavini, and Sean Heuston, and for Avatar (2009), shared with Erich Eder, Giuseppe Tagliavini, and Erik Winquist.