Pat Sweeney

Patrick "Pat" Sweeney is a visual effects artist who worked on several Star Trek projects. He started his Trek connection as effects camera operator for Industrial Light & Magic on in  on which he shot the motion control element of the Klingon Bird-of-Prey. In he worked as Visual Effects Director of Photography for ILM on the Star Trek: The Next Generation pilot episode. Together with fellow ILM artist David Carson he filmed the explosions and fire sequences on the Old Bandi City model on and was interviewed for the TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "The Beginning". In Sweeney was the Visual Effects Director of Photography on the feature film  and in  he worked as additional Visual Effects Photographer on. His most recent Trek connection was in, as Visual Effects Director of Photography for Kerner Optical on J.J. Abrams'.