Mårten Larsson Biography
Mårten Larsson is a visual effects supervisor. Raised in Sweden, Larsson studied computer science with a focus on media programming, computer graphics, and image processing. He joined Digital Domain in 2004 as a technical director and, over time, transitioned into effects supervision. His early work at the studio included serving as a lead effects artist on The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), where he helped develop a cracking-simulation technique to portray the destruction of terracotta warriors.
He also contributed to large-scale destruction effects in 2012 (2009), working within Digital Domain's rigid-body simulation pipeline on some of the film's major catastrophic sequences. Larsson later stepped into a supervisory role on Pixels (2015), acting as Visual Effects Supervisor for Digital Domain. On that project, he and his team transformed classic arcade characters—such as Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and Centipede—into voxel-based 3D entities integrated into live-action settings, including the use of interactive lighting rigs on set to match the luminous voxel effects.
He has also contributed to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as an additional visual effects supervisor on several major films, including Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Eternals (2021), and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). Larsson has earned formal recognition for his work, including a Visual Effects Society nomination in 2009 (listed as Mårten Larsson) for Outstanding Created Environment in a Feature Motion Picture for his contribution as CG Effects Animation Lead on 2012.
