Eddie Bonin

Eddie Bonin is an Emmy award-nominated and Visual Effects Society award-nominated digital consultant for TV, film, commercials, and special venue projects. Specializing in high-end episodic streaming TV, Bonin is a VFX production specialist, who has helped to oversee the production of dozens of highly complex projects, including Netflix's Love, Death & Robots, Netflix & Tim Burton's Wednesday, Netflix's Stranger Things, Netflix's Lost in Space, Marvel's Legion, HBO's True Detective, and AMC's The Walking Dead. Bonin's work spans across in-house roles at major Hollywood studios, film production crews, and VFX vendors.

Named one of Variety Magazine's 2018 "Movers & Shakers," Bonin is a champion for digital artists, managers and other digital specialists who facilitate visual effects and digital production as the intersection of art and technology, within advanced storytelling.

Virtual Production is an area of focus for Bonin, as he views the traditional VFX industry and the VFX experts occupying new production crew positions, alongside other new partners now associated with virtual production, as paramount in how virtual production is advancing the entertainment production industry at large. Partners in this advancement primarily include the Art Department, Camera & Lighting Departments, Editorial Department, Special Effects Department, Directors, Producers, and others.

DEI and the fostering of career advancement are also important areas of focus for Bonin. Bonin has served on the Television Academy's Special Visual Effects Peer Group Executive Committee since 2013, plus is an active member of the Visual Effects Society, Producers Guild of America, and Hollywood Professional Alliance's expert judging pool. Bonin is a Regents Scholar UCLA graduate, originally from the Silicon Valley, California.

updated 11.28.22