Evil Eye Pictures
FUTURE.STAGEEvil Eye Labs
Founders

Founded by artists, for artists.

Two visual effects supervisors who turned a feature-film studio into a real-time and software company.

Portrait of Dan Rosen

Dan Rosen

Co-founder & CEO

Dan has contributed to award-winning films and special projects for over 25 years. He worked as a compositor on The Matrix and What Dreams May Come, both Academy Award winners for Best Visual Effects, then moved into supervision on the Matrix sequels and other Warner Bros. projects.

Since founding Evil Eye Pictures in 2004, Dan has led key visual effects on over 30 films, including Academy Award winners The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. In 2008 he contributed VFX workflow standards to the Visual Effects Society Handbook.

Dan moved into real-time by producing VR content for Google Spotlight Stories, most notably Pearl, which earned Evil Eye an Emmy, an Academy Award nomination, a Peabody and two Annies. Evil Eye has since focused on Unreal Engine, producing Psyonix's Rocket League cinematic and many special projects for Fortnite and Epic Games, including The Matrix Awakens.

In 2020 Evil Eye was awarded an Epic MegaGrant, which started the development of FUTURE.STAGE, a real-time remote capture and animation platform.

From his design studies at UCLA to visual effects and immersive VR, Dan has always worked where art and technology meet. Today he focuses on growing the Evil Eye family and designing great images for clients.

Portrait of Matt McDonald

Matt McDonald

Co-founder & COO

Matt's background in architecture in the early '90s became a springboard into computer graphics and visual effects, as the field moved from analog to digital at Columbia University's first "paperless studio."

Matt has contributed visual effects and supervision to over 60 films, including Academy Award winners The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. He has also worked across broadcast, online and mobile, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Main Title Design for Between the Lions on PBS.

In 2015 Matt turned Evil Eye's focus to real-time, 360 and virtual reality. He supervised the studio's core creative crew in collaboration with Google Spotlight Stories on both Pearl and On Ice.