Award-winning Visual effects house Zoic Studios has welcomed among its ranks visual effects supervisor Jim Lima. And award winner himself, Lima has worked with Stephen Spielberg on a number of projects, including the Emmy-winning SCI-FI Channel miniseries Taken. He first worked with Zoic on the pilot episode of the hit FOX medical mystery series House, which was directed by Bryan Singer.

Lima began his film career as the visual effects art director on the Arnold Schwarzenegger blockbuster Total Recall, and got his first supervising gig on Spielberg’s NBC series Seaquest DSV, one of the first TV series to use computer graphics exclusively for visual effects. He also designed and supervised the effects on James Cameron’s Strange Days and Ivan Reitman and Joe Pytka’s Space Jam. He returned to television for Spielberg on the critically acclaimed NBC series The Others, simultaneously tackling the roles of production designer, visual effects supervisor and 2nd unit director.

"From Spielberg I learned to be bold," says Lima, "while Cameron taught me to start with design and use the rules and logic of the basic concept to explore new approaches. I apply these ideals to all projects, whether features, episodic television or commercials."

“Perhaps the most important job a visual effects supervisor does is to help writers and directors realize their vision in art,” says Zoic co-founder/ creative director Loni Peristere. “Jim is that perfect artisan who not only can talk our creative partners through the process, but uses all mediums to conceptualize an idea from the page to the screen."

Zoic Studio has worked on such feature films as the Joss Whedon-directed Serenity, Judd Apatow’s Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and the upcoming Marcus Nispel Viking epic Pathfinder. The company’s television credits include episodes CSI: Miami, 24 Blade and Eureka, as well commercials for Mini Cooper, HP, VW, Slim Jim, Xbox and Playstation2. More information can be found at www.zoicstudios.com.