Known for Visual Effects
Sheldon Stopsack is a VFX Supervisor at Wētā FX. He served as VFX Supervisor on Chris McKay’s science-fiction action film The Tomorrow War. He was co-VFX Supervisor on Gemini Man (2019), where he led Wētā’s development of cutting-edge facial technology. His work on Gemini Man helped establish a new industry benchmark for creating fully digital human characters, including the entirely CG young version of Will Smith. Before this, Sheldon brought his expertise in digital doubles to Terminator Genisys (2015), where he supervised the creation of a photo-real younger Arnold Schwarzenegger—an achievement that pushed the boundaries of visual effects at the time. Sheldon was also the VFX Supervisor on Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma (2018), contributing to the film’s Academy Award-winning success with subtle, yet essential visual effects that enhanced its acclaimed cinematography and realism. Earlier in his career, as a CG Supervisor at MPC, Sheldon led 3d teams on high-profile blockbusters including Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), and Total Recall (2012). He played a key role in The Lone Ranger (2013), contributing to its pioneering work with the ACES colour space. Sheldon’s journey through the VFX industry began in lighting and look development, quickly rising to lead roles on films such as X-Men: First Class (2011), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010). With a blend of technical mastery and artistic vision, Sheldon Stopsack continues to shape the future of digital storytelling.
Filmography
11 films


Predator: Badlands
2025 · 1h 47m
country: United States
Cast out from his clan, a young Predator finds an unlikely ally in a damaged android and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.


A Minecraft Movie
2025 · 1h 41m
country: Sweden
Four misfits find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they'll have to master this world while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected, expert crafter, Steve.


Carry-On
2024 · 2h
country: United States
An airport security officer races to outsmart a mysterious traveler forcing him to let a dangerous item slip onto a Christmas Eve flight.


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.


Terminator: Dark Fate
2019 · 2h 8m
country: United States
Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet.


Gemini Man
2019 · 1h 57m
country: United States
Henry Brogan is an elite 51-year-old assassin who's ready to call it quits after completing his 72nd job. His plans get turned upside down when he becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict his every move. To his horror, Brogan soon learns that the man who's trying to kill him is a younger, faster, cloned version of himself.


Roma
2018 · 2h 15m
country: United Kingdom
In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.


Transformers: The Last Knight
2017 · 2h 34m
country: United States
Humans and Transformers are at war. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Saving our world falls upon the shoulders of an unlikely alliance: Cade Yeager; Bumblebee; an English Lord; and an Oxford Professor.


Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
2017 · 2h 9m
country: United States
Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle. Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it, he must forge an uneasy alliance with a brilliant and beautiful astronomer and a headstrong young man in the British navy.


Terminator Genisys
2015 · 2h 6m
country: United States
The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him from both fronts; past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever.