Ethan Summers

Emmy Award–winning digital artist and art director with 30+ years of experience spanning feature film VFX, biomedical visualization, immersive science installations, and generative AI production.

Credits include the Emmy-winning recreation of Gettysburg for The History Channel (Stargate Studios, 2011), environment R&D for Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch at Warner Bros., and the Paramount Pictures 100th anniversary animated logo — still in use today.

On the science and installation side, I've collaborated with researchers at UCSC, the SETI Institute, East Carolina University, NOAA, and NSF — including an origins-of-life simulation for the California Academy of Sciences and a stereoscopic 4K coral reef for Newton Harrison's Sensorium for the World Ocean at the UCSB AlloSphere.

My fine art practice spans painting (realism to abstraction), photography, sculpture, and large-scale art car builds. Studied Studio Art and Cognitive Neuroscience at UC Davis and San Francisco State University — before leaving in his final year for a paid internship in media production in Tokyo, Japan.

Based in the Santa Cruz mountains, California, with my wife Anne-Marie, two ravens, and a sizable house cat.

30+
Years Experience
🏆
Emmy Award 2011
NSF
Grant Recipient
Fine &
Digital Arts

Tools & Disciplines

Unreal Engine 5MayaCinema 4DBlender TerragenEmbergenArnold RendererDaVinci Resolve Adobe Creative SuiteMidjourneyFluxKling GeminiGrokGIS IntegrationParticle FX
Ethan Summers

Selected Clients

  • Paramount Pictures
  • Warner Bros.
  • Lionsgate · 20th Century Fox
  • Stargate Studios · Pixomondo
  • National Science Foundation
  • SETI Institute
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb · J&J
  • NOAA · ESRI