Jabbar Raisani

Jabbar Raisani
Biographical information
Full name	Jabbar K. Raisani
First credit	The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999)
Further information
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Jabbar K. Raisani is an Emmy Award winning director, producer, and visual effects supervisor. He worked as a director, executive producer, and VFX supervisor on the first season of Netflix's live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and following the departure of Albert Kim will lead the show alongside showrunner Christine Boylan for the second and third seasons.

Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix) credits

Executive producer

• 101. "Aang"
• 102. "Warriors"
• 103. "Omashu"
• 104. "Into the Dark"
• 105. "Spirited Away"
• 106. "Masks"
• 107. "The North"
• 108. "Legends"

Director

• 103. "Omashu"
• 104. "Into the Dark"

Selected other credits

Television

• Game of Thrones (second unit director and visual effects supervisor)
• Lost in Space (director, executive producer, and visual effects supervisor)
• Stranger Things (visual effects supervisor)
• The Flash (second unit director and visual effects supervisor)

Filmography

• Outpost 37 (2014 - director, executive producer, and writer)
• Man of Steel (2013 - costume digital artist)
• Fright Night (2011 - visual effects consultant)
• Machete (2010 - visual effects supervisor)
• Predators (2010 - visual effects supervisor)
• Shorts (2009 - computer graphics supervisor)
• Iron Man (2008 - design department)
• God Thinks You're a Loser (2008 - visual effects artist)
• The Deaths of Ian Stone (2007 - computer graphics supervisor)
• Veritas (2006 - visual effects artist)
• Superman Returns (2006 - previs artist)
• Eight Below (2006 - computer graphics supervisor)
• Fantastic Four (2005 - computer graphics supervisor)
• The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D (2005 - digital compositor)
• Spy Kids 3: Game Over (2003 - visual effects technical director)
• The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999 - visual effects artist)

Biographical information

Raisani began his film career at age 17 working at a visual effects studio in San Antonio, Texas. In 2004 he moved to Los Angeles to work at Stan Winston Studio, where he was a computer graphics supervisor on numerous projects, including Fantastic Four in 2005 and Iron Man in 2008. In 2013, he was a digital artist on Man of Steel, supervising the digital modeling of Superman's live-action suit, and in 2014 directed his first feature film, Outpost 37, for which he was also writer and producer.

Raisani has teamed up with American filmmaker Robert Rodriguez on several occasions, beginning in 2003 as visual effects technical director on Spy Kids 3: Game Over. He was also a digital compositor on the 2005 film The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D, and returned to work with Rodriguez as visual effects supervisor on the 2010 films Predators and Machete.

In 2013, Raisani began working as a visual effects supervisor on Game of Thrones, earning two Primetime Emmy Awards for his work, and was also second unit director for one episode in season 5. In 2014, he was second unit director and visual effects supervisor for the pilot of the TV series The Flash, and was visual effects supervisor on the 2018 reboot of the sci-fi series Lost in Space. He would later going on to direct two episodes of the series as well as becoming an executive producer for the third and final season. In 2022, Raisani was visual effects supervisor for three episodes of the fourth season of Stranger Things.

Awards

• 2019: Won a VES Award for Lost in Space (Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode)
• 2015: Won a Primetime Emmy Award for Game of Thrones (Outstanding Special Visual Effects)
• 2015: Won an HPA Award for Game of Thrones (Outstanding Visual Effects - Television)
• 2013: Won a Primetime Emmy Award for Game of Thrones (Outstanding Special Visual Effects)
• 2013: Won an HPA Award for Game of Thrones (Outstanding Visual Effects - Television)