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Alex Lemke
Visual Effects · Erlangen, Germany
Biography
Alex Lemke started his career in traditional optical effects work before moving into the digital world in 1994. Since 2000 he has been working as a freelance Compositor and VFX Supervisor at some of the most respected international facilities such as Weta, Double Negative and Framestore, as well as his in own VFX office in germany. His credits include “Dark City”, the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, “Sweeney Todd”, “2012”, “Inside Llewyn Davis” and the “Hobbit” trilogy. From 2009 to 2012, we was also teaching the course “Digital Arts and Compositing” at the Vienna Film Academy, Austria. Since 2011 he has been living and working in New York.
Known for

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2D Sequence Supervisor

Severance
Visual Effects Supervisor

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Compositing Lead

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Compositing Lead

Past Lives
Visual Effects Supervisor

Dark City
Visual Effects Compositor

Patriots Day
Visual Effects Supervisor

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Visual Effects Supervisor

Song Sung Blue
Visual Effects Supervisor

The Tragedy of Macbeth
Visual Effects Supervisor
Filmography
- 2025Song Sung BlueVisual Effects Supervisor
- 2024Drive-Away DollsVFX Supervisor
- 2023Past LivesVisual Effects Supervisor
- 2022SeveranceVisual Effects Supervisor
- 2022Crafting the Tragedy of MacbethSelf
- 2021The Tragedy of MacbethVisual Effects Supervisor
- 2020I'm Thinking of Ending ThingsVisual Effects Supervisor
- 2018The Ballad of Buster ScruggsVisual Effects Supervisor
- 2017AWOLVisual Effects
- 2016Patriots DayVisual Effects Supervisor
- 2014A Most Violent YearVFX Supervisor
- 2013Inside Llewyn DavisVisual Effects Supervisor
- 2009John RabeCompositing Supervisor
- 2007Dard DivorceVisual Effects
- 2003The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King2D Sequence Supervisor
- 2002The Lord of the Rings: The Two TowersCompositing Lead
- 2001The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingCompositing Lead
- 1998Dark CityVisual Effects Compositor
- 1997Ballermann 6Digital Compositor
- 1997Premutos: The Fallen AngelDigital Effects Supervisor
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