Portland Press Herald staff reporter Ray Routhier talks with Eric Saindon about his recent Oscar win and more during a virtual conversation on Wednesday, April 5.
About Eric
Gorham native Eric Saindon won his first Oscar for visual effects in March for his work on “Avatar: The Way of Water” and had been nominated twice before, for “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” in 2014 and “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” in 2013.
After graduating from Gorham High School in 1988, Saindon took community college classes, and later studied architecture at Washington State University. He got a job out of college at a company that made animation software.
After that, he worked at the animation company Santa Barbara Studios in California. In 1999, he went to work at Weta Digital in New Zealand – now Weta FX – and worked his way up to senior visual effects supervisor. He’s been at Weta ever since and lives in Wellington, New Zealand, with his wife and four children.
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