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Ara Khanikian
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Ara Khanikian is a Visual Effects Supervisor and Executive VFX Supervisor at visual effects company Rodeo FX. Over a multi-decade career in visual effects, he has led work across numerous high-profile feature films and television series.
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Ara Khanikian is a Visual Effects Supervisor and Executive VFX Supervisor at visual effects company Rodeo FX.
Over a multi-decade career in visual effects, he has led work across numerous high-profile feature films and television series.
His film credits as VFX Supervisor include Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), Vince Gilligan's El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019), and Marvel Studios' Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), directed by Destin Daniel Cretton.
Khanikian served as Visual Effects Supervisor on Amazon's fantasy TV series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022), directed in part by Charlotte Brändström, earning Primetime Emmy nominations for his work.
