John Mangia is a Los Angeles-based Visual Effects Supervisor. He served as Additional VFX Supervisor for Marvel Studios on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Before that, he was the Overall VFX Supervisor for the Paramount+ limited series The Offer, supervising five vendors and nearly 800 VFX shots. His work on the series included the creation of highly detailed, full-CG environments, digital crowds, and vehicles to faithfully recreate 1970s New York City and the world of The Godfather. Mangia also served as Overall VFX Supervisor on the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Netflix limited series The Queen’s Gambit, directed by Scott Frank and executive produced by Bill Horberg. His contributions included the visualisation of Beth Harmon’s chess hallucinations and the transformation of present-day Berlin into 1960s settings such as Paris, Moscow, Mexico City, and Kentucky. His additional credits include M. Night Shyamalan’s Old, Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s Dreamland, and The Code from CBS Television Studios. In 2014, he was nominated for a Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Compositing in a Commercial for the Sony PlayStation spot Perfect Day. His portfolio also includes major studio features such as Men in Black 3, The Amazing Spider-Man, Green Lantern, and Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan. He served as an independent VFX consultant on the Academy Award-nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild and has contributed to numerous television commercials and episodic series for networks including HBO, Cinemax, NBC, and Starz—frequently leading creative look development for complex sequences. Mangia holds a Master of Science in Digital Imaging and Design from New York University, with additional studies at Rochester Institute of Technology and Rider University. He has pursued specialized training in creature design at the Stan Winston School of Character Arts. In addition to his industry work, he has lectured on advanced visual effects and computer graphics topics at New York University and the New York Film Academy.

December 14, 2018

May 01, 2009

November 08, 2018

May 23, 2012

December 03, 2010

October 01, 2025

February 15, 2023

November 27, 2019

May 02, 2019

April 28, 2019

December 21, 2018

September 14, 2018

May 18, 2018

August 25, 2017

February 05, 2016

April 09, 2015

March 11, 2015

June 29, 2012

November 02, 2011

June 14, 2011

March 03, 2011

February 18, 2011

March 09, 2010

August 27, 2010

August 04, 2010

March 11, 2010

September 17, 2010

December 17, 2009

March 18, 2009

March 04, 2010

April 09, 2008

January 01, 2005

July 23, 2025

October 23, 2020

April 03, 2025

April 28, 2022

April 09, 2019

May 06, 2018

September 21, 2015

September 16, 2016

June 07, 2014

January 17, 2016

June 03, 2016

February 14, 2016

June 29, 2014

November 08, 2015

September 23, 2013

March 10, 2015