Visual Effects

Chris Morley

Chris Morley (born 1997) is an American Senior Visual Effects Supervisor and Chief Creative Officer at Base FX. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, he was educated at the Academy of Art University, where he earned a BFA in motion pictures and computer arts, grounding his practice in traditional artistic principles before transitioning into digital production. His career began at Tippett Studio in 2000 as a …

Known For

Mutiny

MovieActionThriller

After witnessing his billionaire boss' murder and being framed for the crime, Cole Reed boards a cargo ship on a one-man crusade to avenge his boss' death only to discover an international conspiracy.

The Fantastic 4: First Steps

The Fantastic 4: First Steps · 2025

The Fantastic 4: First Steps

MovieScience FictionAdventure

Against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel's First Family is forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, while defending Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Star Wars: The Force Awakens · 2015

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

MovieAdventureAction

Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.

Black Adam

Black Adam · 2022

MovieActionAdventure

Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods—and imprisoned just as quickly—Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker · 2019

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

MovieAdventureAction

The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.

Men in Black II

Men in Black II · 2002

Men in Black II

MovieActionComedy

Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIB's untarnished mission statement – protecting Earth from the scum of the universe. It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. Now it's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay – who not only has absolutely no memory of his time spent with the MIB, but is also the only living person left with the expertise to save the galaxy – to reunite with the MIB before the earth submits to ultimate destruction.

Alien: Romulus

Alien: Romulus · 2024

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Solo: A Star Wars Story · 2018

Solo: A Star Wars Story

MovieScience FictionAdventure

Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.

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Mutiny

MovieActionThriller

After witnessing his billionaire boss' murder and being framed for the crime, Cole Reed boards a cargo ship on a one-man crusade to avenge his boss' death only to discover an international conspiracy.

Visual Effects Supervisor

The Fantastic 4: First Steps

The Fantastic 4: First Steps · 2025

The Fantastic 4: First Steps

MovieScience FictionAdventure

Against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel's First Family is forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, while defending Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer.

Visual Effects Supervisor

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Star Wars: The Force Awakens · 2015

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

MovieAdventureAction

Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.

Visual Effects Supervisor

Black Adam

Black Adam · 2022

MovieActionAdventure

Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods—and imprisoned just as quickly—Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.

Visual Effects Supervisor

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker · 2019

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

MovieAdventureAction

The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.

Visual Effects Supervisor

Men in Black II

Men in Black II · 2002

Men in Black II

MovieActionComedy

Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIB's untarnished mission statement – protecting Earth from the scum of the universe. It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. Now it's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay – who not only has absolutely no memory of his time spent with the MIB, but is also the only living person left with the expertise to save the galaxy – to reunite with the MIB before the earth submits to ultimate destruction.

Compositor

Alien: Romulus

Alien: Romulus · 2024

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

Visual Effects Supervisor

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Solo: A Star Wars Story · 2018

Solo: A Star Wars Story

MovieScience FictionAdventure

Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.

Visual Effects Supervisor

Priest

MovieActionFantasy

In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down. He is accompanied by the niece's boyfriend, who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess.

Compositing Supervisor

The Stepford Wives

The Stepford Wives · 2004

The Stepford Wives

MovieComedyScience Fiction

What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech, terrifying little town.

Visual Effects Compositor

Cloverfield

Cloverfield · 2008

MovieActionThriller

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

Compositing Supervisor

After Earth

After Earth · 2013

MovieScience FictionAction

One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance.

Compositing Supervisor

The Toxic Avenger Unrated

The Toxic Avenger Unrated · 2025

The Toxic Avenger Unrated

MovieActionComedy

When a downtrodden janitor, Winston Gooze, is exposed to a catastrophic toxic accident, he’s transformed into a new kind of hero: The Toxic Avenger. Now, Toxie must rise from outcast to savior, taking on ruthless corporate overlords and corrupt forces who threaten his son, his friends, and his community.

Visual Effects Supervisor

Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms

Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms · 2023

Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms

MovieActionFantasy

Based on the most well-known classical fantasy novel of China, Fengshenyanyi, the trilogy is a magnificent eastern high fantasy epic that recreates the prolonged mythical wars between humans, immortals and monsters, which happened more than three thousand years ago.

Visual Effects Supervisor

Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force

Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force · 2025

Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force

MovieActionFantasy

Taishi Wen Zhong led the army of Shang Dynasty including Deng Chanyu and four generals of the Mo Family to Xiqi. With the help of Kunlun immortals such as Jiang Ziya, Ji Fa led the army and civilians of Xiqi to defend their homeland.

Visual Effects Supervisor

Hemingway & Gellhorn

Hemingway & Gellhorn · 2012

Hemingway & Gellhorn

MovieDramaRomance

Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.

Visual Effects Supervisor

The Remaining

The Remaining · 2014

MovieThrillerHorror

When a group of close-knit friends assemble for the marriage of Skylar and Dan, they have no idea they will witness The Rapture and face a series of catastrophic events turning the celebration into a life-or-death struggle.

Visual Effects Supervisor

Horns

MovieDramaFantasy

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

Visual Effects Supervisor

Mad God

Mad God · 2021

MovieAnimationFantasy

A silent figure known as The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.

Visual Effects Supervisor

Soul Snatcher

Soul Snatcher · 2020

MovieComedyFantasy

The historical fantasy film basically revolves around the tale of an impoverished scholar and a fox demon in search of a magic pill. Chen Linong plays the guileless Wang Zijin, the scholar on the way to Beijing who inadvertently becomes fast friends with Li Xian’s fox demon Bai Shisan. Unbeknownst to him, the wily Bai Shisan actually has plans to use him to retrieve the magic pill that will turn him immortal.

Visual Effects Supervisor

The Crossing I

The Crossing I · 2014

At the end of the World War II and the middle of the Chinese Revolution, three couples from different backgrounds with different nationalities flee from China to the island of Taiwan.

Visual Effects Supervisor

Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan · 2018

MovieFantasyAction

Temüjin and Börte are childhood lovers who are deeply in love; but news of Temüjin's father's death swiftly disrupted their relationship. Temüjin heads back to his hometown, but was faced with a sudden attack from his father's former comrades, causing his whole tribe to be destroyed.

Visual Effects Supervisor

Lost in Russia

Lost in Russia · 2020

MovieDramaComedy

A story of a businessman who accidentally boards a train bound for Russia with his mother and has to overcome difficulties with his mother and problems in his family life.

Visual Effects Supervisor

Keep the Gaslight Burning

Keep the Gaslight Burning · 2018

Keep the Gaslight Burning

Mrs Maxwell has killed her abusive husband but he won't stay dead and can only be kept at bay if she keeps the gaslight burning.

Visual Effects Supervisor

VisionQuest

VisionQuest · 2026

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

With a bounty on his head, Vision must confront his nature and resist Ultron's influence to survive.

VFX Supervisor

The Mandalorian

The Mandalorian · 2019

The Mandalorian

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure

After the fall of the Galactic Empire, lawlessness has spread throughout the galaxy. A lone gunfighter makes his way through the outer reaches, earning his keep as a bounty hunter.

Visual Effects Supervisor

The Orville

The Orville · 2017

SeriesDramaComedy

Follow the crew of the not-so-functional exploratory ship in the Earth's interstellar fleet, 400 years in the future.

Visual Effects Supervisor

The Witcher

The Witcher · 2019

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure

Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.

Visual Effects Supervisor

BEEF

SeriesComedyDrama

Minor conflicts spiral into consuming feuds between individuals, exposing pride, resentment, and hidden pain.

Visual Effects Supervisor

ted

It's 1993 and Ted the bear's moment of fame has passed, leaving him living with his best friend, 16-year-old John Bennett, who lives in a working-class Boston home with his parents and cousin. Ted may not be the best influence on John, but when it comes right down to it, he's willing to go out on a limb to help his friend and his family.

Visual Effects Supervisor

Upload

SeriesComedySci-Fi & Fantasy

In 2033, people who are near death can be “uploaded” into virtual reality hotels run by 6 tech firms. Cash-strapped Nora lives in Brooklyn and works customer service for the luxurious “Lakeview” digital afterlife. When L.A. party-boy/coder Nathan’s self-driving car crashes, his high-maintenance girlfriend uploads him permanently into Nora’s VR world.

Visual Effects Supervisor

Poker Face

Poker Face · 2023

SeriesCrimeMystery

Follow Charlie Cale, a woman with an extraordinary ability to tell when someone is lying, as she hits the road and, at every stop, encounters a new cast of characters and crimes she can't help but solve.

VFX Director of Photography

Locke & Key

Locke & Key · 2020

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

After their dad's murder, three siblings move with their mom to his ancestral estate, where they discover magical keys that unlock powers — and secrets.

Visual Effects Supervisor

Secret Invasion

Secret Invasion · 2023

Secret Invasion

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Nick Fury and Talos discover a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls who have been infiltrating Earth for years.

Visual Effects Supervisor

The Book of Boba Fett

The Book of Boba Fett · 2021

The Book of Boba Fett

SeriesAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

Legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand must navigate the galaxy’s underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate.

Visual Effects Supervisor

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier · 2021

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

SeriesAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

Following the events of “Avengers: Endgame”, the Falcon, Sam Wilson and the Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes team up in a global adventure that tests their abilities, and their patience.

Visual Effects Supervisor

Ironheart

Ironheart · 2025

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyCrime

After the events of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, technology is pitted against magic when Riri Williams, a young, genius inventor determined to make her mark on the world, returns to her hometown of Chicago. Her unique take on building iron suits is brilliant, but in pursuit of her ambitions, she finds herself wrapped up with the mysterious yet charming Parker Robbins aka "The Hood."

Visual Effects Supervisor

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew · 2024

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

SeriesAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

Four ordinary kids search for their home planet after getting lost in the Star Wars galaxy.

Visual Effects Supervisor

The Resort

The Resort · 2022

SeriesComedyMystery

An anniversary trip puts a marriage to the test when a couple finds themselves embroiled in one of Yucatan's most bizarre unsolved mysteries.

Digital Compositor

Gaslit

A modern take on the 1970s political Watergate scandal centering on untold stories and forgotten characters of the time.

Visual Effects Supervisor

The Man Who Fell to Earth

The Man Who Fell to Earth · 2022

The Man Who Fell to Earth

SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy

An extraterrestrial alien arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future.

Visual Effects Supervisor

I Know What You Did Last Summer

I Know What You Did Last Summer · 2021

I Know What You Did Last Summer

SeriesMysteryDrama

In a sun-soaked Hawaiian town with a mysterious past, a group of friends is left with a dark secret after a tragic accident. One year later, a member of the group receives a threatening message, and the friends now know that someone intends to make them pay for last summer.

Visual Effects Supervisor

The Spiderwick Chronicles

The Spiderwick Chronicles · 2024

The Spiderwick Chronicles

SeriesAction & AdventureFamily

The coming-of-age story of the Grace Family, as they move from New York to Michigan and into their family's ancestral home. Upon arrival, the family not only uncovers mysteries hidden inside their great grandfather's Spiderwick Estate, but also discovers a secret, fantastical world around them.

Visual Effects Supervisor