Blaine Lougheed

Blaine Lougheed
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Role:	Visual Effects Assistant / Visual Effects Coordinator
BSG Universe:	Re-imagined Series
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Nationality:	CAN
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Blaine Lougheed is a Canadian visual effects professional who served as visual effects assistant and later visual effects coordinator on the Re-imagined Series of Battlestar Galactica. Working under visual effects supervisor Gary Hutzel, Lougheed contributed to the series' VFX pipeline across its first two broadcast seasons before advancing to a career spanning major Hollywood feature films and prestige television, including Emmy nominations for his work on Lost in Space and Goosebumps.

Battlestar Galactica

Lougheed joined the visual effects department of Battlestar Galactica at the series' inception in 2004, receiving credit as visual effects assistant on 13 episodes across the first season and into the second. Working alongside coordinator Michael Gibson and under Gary Hutzel's supervision, his role placed him within the on-set VFX pipeline responsible for managing plates and data, and coordinating between the production unit and visual effects vendors including Zoic Studios and Atmosphere Visual Effects.

By the second season, Lougheed had been promoted to visual effects coordinator, a role he held for 17 episodes from 2005 through 2006. In this capacity he is credited alongside fellow coordinators Jonathan MacPherson and Jack Marshall on several second-season episodes, reflecting an expanded coordination team as the series' visual effects scope grew. His tenure on the series concluded following the second season, with a combined total of 30 credited episodes spanning 2004–2006.

Career

Following his work on Battlestar Galactica, Lougheed moved into on-set VFX data work on large-scale feature film productions, serving as on-set data coordinator on Night at the Museum (2006), visual effects plate data coordinator on Eragon (2006), and on-set data coordinator and visual effects set surveyor on 300 (2006). In 2007 he served as lead visual effects set coordinator and on-set data coordinator on Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

He continued with on-set data work on The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) as a set data technician at Rhythm and Hues Studios, and as on-set data coordinator on The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008). Lougheed then served as visual effects set coordinator on additional photography for X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and as on-set data coordinator on Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009). He served as lead visual effects coordinator and on-set data wrangler on Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) and visual effects data coordinator on Tooth Fairy (2010).

Transitioning into coordinator roles at the supervisory level, Lougheed served as visual effects coordinator on Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) and Final Destination 5 (2011), visual effects coordinator on Man of Steel (2013), and lead visual effects set coordinator on Seventh Son (2014).

Visual Effects Supervision

Lougheed moved into visual effects supervision with the TNT science fiction series Falling Skies, on which he served as visual effects supervisor across 32 episodes from 2013 to 2015. He served as second-unit visual effects supervisor on Fantastic Four (2015) and visual effects supervisor on the television film Breed (2015).

For the 2016 Fox superhero film Deadpool, directed by Tim Miller and starring Ryan Reynolds, Lougheed served as second-unit visual effects supervisor. Production visual effects supervisor Jonathan Rothbart and visual effects producer Annemarie Griggs distributed approximately 1,200 shots across multiple facilities — including Digital Domain, Atomic Fiction, Blur Studio, Luma Pictures, Rodeo FX, Weta Digital, Ollin VFX, and Image Engine — with Lougheed providing on-set support for the second unit throughout the Vancouver-area principal photography. He also served as additional visual effects supervisor on the television series Shooter (2016).

Lougheed served as visual effects supervisor on nine episodes of the Netflix science fiction series Lost in Space in its first season (2018), and subsequently as visual effects set supervisor for 12 additional episodes across the second and third seasons (2019–2021). His on-set visual effects supervisor work on the episode "Ninety-Seven" earned him a Primetime Emmy nomination in 2020 in the category of Outstanding Special Visual Effects. The Lost in Space entry competed against Stranger Things, The Mandalorian, Watchmen, and Westworld in that category.

He was also second-unit visual effects supervisor on the Marvel Studios feature Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) and animation supervisor on A Wrinkle in Time (2018). He served as second-unit visual effects supervisor on the Netflix feature The Adam Project (2022) and as visual effects set supervisor on Carnival Row (2023) across eight episodes.

He served as visual effects supervisor and additional visual effects supervisor on multiple episodes of the first season of the HBO series The Last of Us (2023), including "When You're Lost in the Darkness" and "Please Hold to My Hand". He subsequently returned for the second season as well.

In 2025, Lougheed received a Children's and Family Emmy nomination for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Live Action Program for his work as a VFX supervisor on the horror series Goosebumps. He shared the nomination with senior VFX supervisor Lawren Bancroft-Wilson, fellow VFX supervisors Greg Kegel, Carlo Monaghan, Justin Reimer, and Chris Van Dyck, VFX producers Matthew Lane and Sara Moore, and on-set VFX supervisor Matthew Whittaker.

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