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Max Colt

Ukrainian visual effect producer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Max Colt (born Maksym Chyzhevskyy[a], December 10, 1982) is a visual effects producer and supervisor. He won MTV Video Music Award in 2015 for Best Visual Effects for his work on music video for Justin Bieber, Skrillex and Diplo and 2016 MTV Video Music Award for Coldplay "Up&Up" music video. He has produced visual effects for music videos for artists such as Britney Spears, Imagine Dragons, Justin Bieber, Kanye West, Foals, Ariana Grande and Shakira. Colt was born in Alchevsk, Ukraine.

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Early career

Early in his career, Max spent time working as a Creative director for an advertising firm with brands including Coca-Cola, Henkel, and Procter & Gamble. He participated in Ukrainian national video projects such as: Pray for Ukraine, directed by Evgeny Afineevsky,[2]

Max moved to Los Angeles in 2014 where he began working on music videos, commercials and feature films.[3] He studied visual effects production at Gnomon visual effects school.

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Present career

Colt now spends most of his time in visual effects. Since 2010, he produced more than 300 music videos, several short and feature films and nearly 50 commercials.[4]

Awards

2015 the MTV Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects with Skrillex and Diplo for Justin Bieber's "Where Are Ü Now."[5]

2016 MTV Music Video Awards for Best Visual Effects with Coldplay.

2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity / Film Craft (Silver) with Coldplay - "UP&UP"

Films

Commercials

Music videography

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Notes

  1. Ukrainian: Максим Чижевський, romanized: Maksym Chyzhevskyi

References

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