Van Ling

Visual Effects

Van Ling

Known for

Visual Effects

Credits

12 titles

Van Ling is a visual effects supervisor, film producer and creator of DVD menus for many popular movies, including the Star Wars DVDs. Ling graduated summa cum laude from the USC School of Cinema-Television. He began his career as a visual effects supervisor for The Abyss and became head of production on Lightstorm Entertainment, for which he continued with many major motion pictures and television, including Titanic, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Walking Dead, Starship Troopers, Dr. Dolittle, Vanilla Sky and many others.[3] He had a brief cameo in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic, as the Chinese man, who was in real-life, a Chinese passenger booked under the name of Fang Lang (or…

Known for

Titanic poster
7.9

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

Titanic

1997

Terminator 2: Judgment Day poster
8.2

Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

1991

The Abyss poster
7.4

A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.

The Abyss

1989

Jurassic Punk poster
6.7

Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams is a pioneer in computer animation. His digital dinosaurs of Jurassic Park transformed Hollywood in 1993, but an appetite for anarchy and reckless disregard for authority may have cost him the recognition he deserved.

Jurassic Punk

2022

Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator' poster
5.9

Many cast and crew interviews cue us in on the making of the film The Terminator (1984). From James Cameron's first concept to casting to practical effects, all this and much more is explored here to make us understand how hard it was for this idea to become a reality.

Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator'

2001

Cliffs of Freedom poster
7.1

The timeless story of an ill-fated romance between a young Greek village girl and a conflicted Turkish officer during the dawn of the Greek War for Independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821.

Cliffs of Freedom

2019

Film credits

Behind the camera

Terminator 2: Judgment Day poster
8.2

Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

1991

The Abyss poster
7.4

A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.

The Abyss

1989

Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator' poster
5.9

Many cast and crew interviews cue us in on the making of the film The Terminator (1984). From James Cameron's first concept to casting to practical effects, all this and much more is explored here to make us understand how hard it was for this idea to become a reality.

Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator'

2001

Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator' poster
5.9

Many cast and crew interviews cue us in on the making of the film The Terminator (1984). From James Cameron's first concept to casting to practical effects, all this and much more is explored here to make us understand how hard it was for this idea to become a reality.

Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator'

2001

Cliffs of Freedom poster
7.1

The timeless story of an ill-fated romance between a young Greek village girl and a conflicted Turkish officer during the dawn of the Greek War for Independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821.

Cliffs of Freedom

2019

Cliffs of Freedom poster
7.1

The timeless story of an ill-fated romance between a young Greek village girl and a conflicted Turkish officer during the dawn of the Greek War for Independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821.

Cliffs of Freedom

2019

T2: More Than Meets the Eye poster
6.8

A documentary about scenes that were deleted from the original theatrical release of Terminator 2.

T2: More Than Meets the Eye

1993

No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects poster
7.0

A look at the digital effects in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects

2003

No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects poster
7.0

A look at the digital effects in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects

2003