Steve Emerson is an Oscar®-nominated VFX supervisor. As a longtime LAIKA collaborator, he has contributed to all five award-winning films: Missing Link, Kubo and the Two Strings, The Boxtrolls, ParaNorman, and Coraline. Prior to joining LAIKA, Steve spent nearly twenty years working in visual effects as an artist and technical director. He has worked on many feature films and television series including The Matrix Reloaded, Transformers, The Dark Knight, and Sliders for Universal Television.

He is a two-time recipient of the Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature for Missing Link (2020) and Kubo and the Two Strings (2017).