Known for Visual Effects
Brendan Seals is a visual effects supervisor at Luma Pictures, originally from Australia, currently based in Melbourne. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Curtin University (graduated in 2007), where his fascination with visual storytelling began with classic films such as E.T. and Jaws. His early experiments with filmmaking included staging lightsaber battles with friends, long before he entered the professional VFX arena. Seals's career path took shape when he joined the industry via Perth post-production house Boogie Monster, under the mentorship of Steve Vojkovic. There, he gained foundational experience in animation, lighting, and compositing. His trajectory soon led him to Luma Pictures in Melbourne, where he became a key creative force in their visual effects work. Over the years, Seals has contributed to an impressive list of high-profile feature films. He began as a lighter and compositor on projects such as Thor: The Dark World (2013) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), progressed to lighting supervisor on Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), and then to sequence supervisor on Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Captain America: Civil War (2016). His credits later include serving as visual effects supervisor on Doctor Strange (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Black Panther (2018), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Captain Marvel (2019), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). At the Visual Effects Society Awards, Seals was nominated for Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature for Doctor Strange (2016). The same film also brought him a nomination at the AACTA Awards for Best Visual Effects or Animation. He followed this with another AACTA nomination for Black Panther (2018). That year, his work on Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) earned him both a Saturn Award nomination for Best Special Effects from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films and an AACTA nomination—and indeed a win—for Best Visual Effects or Animation. He continued this streak with an AACTA nomination for Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). Additionally, his role in the Coca‑Cola commercial A Mini Marvel (2016) secured a nomination for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial at the VES Awards. Beyond film, Brendan Seals has led the Melbourne VFX team at Luma Pictures on projects like Amazon's The Tomorrow War (2021), tackling intricate creature design, extensive environment creation, and time-travel sequences with creativity and technical finesse. His background in design, FX, lighting, and compositing has also made him a featured guest at industry forums discussing the evolving landscape of VFX, including the rise of real-time effects and LED StageCraft technologies.
Filmography
26 films


Balls Up
2026 · 1h 44m
country: United States
Two marketing executives go "balls out" and pitch a bold full‑coverage condom sponsorship with the World Cup. After their drunken celebration in Brazil sparks a global scandal, they must outrun furious fans, criminals, and power-hungry officials to salvage their careers and make it home alive.


Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
2024 · 2h 1m
country: United States
The rebels gear up for battle against the ruthless forces of the Motherworld as unbreakable bonds are forged, heroes emerge — and legends are made.


The Equalizer 3
2023 · 1h 49m
country: Italy
Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.


Elvis
2022 · 2h 39m
country: Australia
The life story of Elvis Presley as seen through the complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker.


Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021 · 2h 28m
country: United States
Peter Parker is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a super-hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.


The Tomorrow War
2021 · 2h 18m
country: United States
The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future, mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is high school teacher and family man Dan Forester. Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist and his estranged father in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the planet.


Those Who Wish Me Dead
2021 · 1h 40m
country: Canada
A young boy finds himself pursued by two assassins in the Montana wilderness, with a survival expert determined to protect him, and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.


Godzilla vs. Kong
2021 · 1h 54m
country: United States
In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet collide in a spectacular battle for the ages.


Chaos Walking
2021 · 1h 49m
country: United States
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.


Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
2020 · 1h 49m
country: United States
Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare diamond from a crime lord.


Jojo Rabbit
2019 · 1h 48m
country: New Zealand
Jojo, a lonely German boy during World War II has his world shaken when he learns that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. Influenced by a buffoonish imaginary version of Adolf Hitler, he begins to question his beliefs and confront the conflict between propaganda and his own humanity.


Spider-Man: Far From Home
2019 · 2h 9m
country: United States
Peter Parker and his friends go on a summer trip to Europe. However, they will hardly be able to rest - Peter will have to agree to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of creatures that cause natural disasters and destruction throughout the continent.


Captain Marvel
2019 · 2h 4m
country: United States
The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.


Mary Poppins Returns
2018 · 2h 11m
country: United States
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.


The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018 · 1h 39m
country: United States
When Clara’s mother leaves her a mysterious gift, she embarks on a journey to four secret realms—where she discovers her greatest strength could change the world.


Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018 · 1h 59m
country: United States
Just when his time under house arrest is about to end, Scott Lang once again puts his freedom at risk to help Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym dive into the quantum realm and try to accomplish, against time and any chance of success, a very dangerous rescue mission.


A Wrinkle in Time
2018 · 1h 49m
country: United States
After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.


Black Panther
2018 · 2h 15m
country: United States
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.


Thor: Ragnarok
2017 · 2h 11m
country: United States
Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his home-world and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of a powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.


Spider-Man: Homecoming
2017 · 2h 13m
country: United States
Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges.


Alien: Covenant
2017 · 2h 2m
country: United States
The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world.


Underworld: Blood Wars
2016 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Vampire death dealer Selene fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David and his father Thomas, she must stop the eternal war between Lycans and Vampires, even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice.


Doctor Strange
2016 · 1h 55m
country: United States
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.