James Turner

Biography:

James Turner is a British visual effects producer at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) in London, with a career spanning more than a decade across major facilities including Framestore, Milk Visual Effects, and MPC. He graduated with a BA (Hons) in Computer Animation from Teesside University in 2006 with First Class Honours. He entered the industry through production support and coordination roles, building hands-on experience across asset, roto-prep, and production departments. Turner's early credits include work at MPC as a visual effects production assistant on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), followed by coordinator roles on features such as John Carter (2012), Prometheus (2012), Dark Shadows (2012), Total Recall (2012), 47 Ronin (2013), and Maleficent (2014). He advanced to senior coordination at Framestore, contributing to Paddington (2014), before stepping into line producing on large-scale projects including Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016). From 2017, Turner served as a visual effects line producer at ILM on Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), then as a VFX producer at Milk Visual Effects on Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Four Kids and It(2020). He continued as a VFX producer at Framestore on The Suicide Squad (2021) and No Time to Die (2021), before joining ILM as a VFX producer in 2021, where his work includes Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023), the Disney+ series The Acolyte (2024), Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025), and Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025), the latter also crediting him as a visual effects stage operator.