Sean Thigpen

Hailing from Atlanta by way of Savannah, Sean’s route to VFX was a circuitous one. He spent several years playing bass in a hard rock band before trading his bass in for a tattoo machine and, eventually, finding his way to art school. Looking to improve his skills applying ink to flesh, he instead discovered a more lucrative path in design and motion graphics, which led him to visual effects. The Atlanta film boom brought Hollywood to him, as luck would have it, and Sean found himself working on the most popular TV show in America, The Walking Dead. Success there gave way to many more projects and a career in VFX supervising, but Sean still finds time for his hobbies, including photography, traveling the world, and enjoying expensive brown liquor.