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Frederick "Fred" J. Pienkos (born 16 September 1973; age 50) is a CGI Artist and Compositor at Digital Muse, and later Eden FX. He was involved with the special effects created in Star Trek Nemesis, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise.

While working on Star Trek, Pienko was nominated five times for an Emmy Award, winning one in 2004 for "Countdown". Apart from these, Peinkos was also twice nominated for a VES (Visual Effects Society) Award, winning one in 2005 for his work in the episode "Storm Front, Part II". He would later appear in an interview featured on the ENT Season 4 DVD discussing the creation of the battle over New York City between Enterprise and several Stukas, featured in "Storm Front, Part II," for which he and his team were nominated for the other VES Award in another category, they did not win. [1]

Career outside Star Trek[]

Hailing from Illinois, Pienkos started his professional career in 1993 in Chicago as computer animator, working for several companies making commercials, before moving to Los Angeles in 1999, where he joined Digital Muse in December. He followed Digital Muse's co-founder John Gross in July 2000 to Eden FX, as the latter opted to start over when Digital Muse fell prey to a hostile takeover, and has remained in the employment of that company ever since. At Eden FX he worked on the majority that company was involved with, and which include Hellboy (2004), Miami Vice (2006), Spider-Man 3 (2007), Nim's Island (2008, winning him a third VES award nomination), Hancock (2008), The Social Network (2010), and Fright Night (2011). Television series Pienkos was involved with included Surface, Ghost Whisperer, Lost, Fringe, Robert Duncan McNeill's Chuck, NCIS, Army Wives and Person of Interest.

Star Trek awards[]

Emmy Awards[]

Pienkos received the following Emmy Award win and nominations in the category Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series:

Visual Effects Society Awards[]

Pienkos received the following VES Award win and nomination:

Star Trek interview[]

External links[]

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