Neill Blomkamp (born 17 September 1979) is a South African-Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator.
Neill Blomkamp Age
He was born on the 17th of September 1979 in Johannesburg, South Africa. As of 2023, he is 44 years old and celebrates his birthday on September 17th every year.
Neill Blomkamp Wife
He is married to Terri Tatchell, a Canadian screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay of District 9.
Career
He got his first lead animator gig for the Dark Angel TV series in 2000. (2000). For 3000 Miles to Graceland, he was the principal 3D animator (2001).
In 2003, he was hired by Popular Science to illustrate photo-realistic futuristic planes for their “Next Century in Aviation” issue. He drew “The Future of the Automobile” in 2004.
Blomkamp was signed by the Toronto commercial studio Spy Films after working as a visual effects artist at The Embassy Visual Effects in Vancouver and Rainmaker Digital Effects.
In 2007, Blomkamp directed a trilogy of live-action short films known as Landfall. To promote the release of Halo 3, they were set in the Halo universe.
Following Elysium, he began work on Chappie, his next sci-fi feature, in April 2013. Tetra Vaal, his own short film, served as inspiration for the feature.
Blomkamp announced the formation of his own film production company, Oats Studios, in 2017 and confirmed the release of Oats Studios Volume 1, a collection of experimental short films and other content, on Steam.
Blomkamp had surreptitiously shot a supernatural horror film in British Columbia during the summer of 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, it was disclosed in December 2020.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $10 million which he has earned as a film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator.
