Rocco Gioffre
- Visual Effects
- Actor
- Art Department
Rocco Gioffre has created matte paintings for more than 100 films that
have bridged two eras -- from the optical/photochemical domain to the
modern digital palette. After apprenticing at age 18 on
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
for VFX supervisor Douglas Trumbull, Gioffre went on to become one of
the founding members of Dream Quest Images, where he worked for seven
years. Since then, Gioffre has worked widely in film, TV and
commercials.