Neal Sopata

Movies

2025 Armageddon
VFX Artist
A militant alien race launches an attack on Earth using gigantic creatures and geological disasters all based on those found on The Asylum's Movie Channel signal which reached their planet.
Battle for Pandora
VFX Artist
After a help signal from a research vessel makes it back to Earth, the U.S. Space Force sends a rescue ship to Pandora, a moon of Saturn. But when they try to land, they discover Pandora is inhabited by a highly evolved humanoid species.
Time Pirates
VFX Artist
Shooting a music video aboard a tall ship, band SM6 discovers a partial treasure map. After reading the incantation on the map, a waterspout emerges and transports the ship back to an era where pirates rule the seven seas. As SM6 searches for a way back home, they run into dread pirate Blackbeard, the fearsome Kraken, and make an alliance with female pirate Anne Bonny.
Shark Side of the Moon
VFX Artist
Decades ago, the USSR developed unkillable sharks and launched them to the moon. Today, a team of American astronauts will endure the fight of their lives.
Bullet Train Down
VFX Artist
On its maiden run, the world's fastest bullet train is rigged with a bomb that will explode if it dips below 200 mph.
Thor: God of Thunder
VFX Artist
Thor’s villainous brother Loki has escaped Asgard to search for Yggdrasil — The Tree of the Nine Realms. The tree holds the power of the Universe, and is secreted away on Earth. With the help of giant wolf god Fenrir, Loki plans to destroy the tree and replant it in his image, giving him dominion over all. Now Thor must follow Loki to Earth to wage an epic battle that will hold the two worlds in its balance.
Jurassic Domination
VFX Artist
When two military-made, weaponized dinosaurs attack a small mountain town, it's up to the sheriff to figure out a way to stop the creatures before the dinos escape and wreak havoc nationwide.
4 Horsemen: Apocalypse
VFX Artist
A small team of scientists must race against time to stop what seems to be a cascade of global disasters signaling the possible apocalypse and end of days.
Titanic 666
VFX Artist
After a mammoth cruise ship sails over the site of the Titanic’s disaster, dark and deadly events start to occur on board. As the ship’s captain investigates the tragic occurrences, it becomes clear that the passengers and crew from the original Titanic have returned.
Moon Crash
VFX Artist
A global steelworks company partners with an aerospace firm to mine the Moon. But when a drilling accident causes a giant piece of the Moon to crack off and hurtle towards Earth, the surviving space team and the head of the firm must figure out how to destroy the meteoroid before it wipes out the entire planet.
Devil's Triangle
VFX Artist
When a group of marine biologists crash land in the Bermuda Triangle, they realize they have stumbled into the lost city of Atlantis. But they quickly discover the city isn't friendly, and its humanoid inhabitants are planning worldwide domination using the piles of weapons and technology that have fallen through the Triangle over the centuries.
Megaboa
VFX Artist
On a trip to Colombia, a group of college students encounter a fifty-foot boa constrictor, hungry for blood.
Planet Dune
Visual Effects
A crew on a mission to rescue a marooned base on a desert planet turns deadly when the crew finds themselves hunted and attacked by the planet’s apex predators: giant sand worms.
Megalodon Rising
VFX Artist
When history’s greatest aquatic predator returns, the armada of modern warships sent to destroy it has no chance at all.
Swim
VFX Artist
A family gets trapped in their storm flooded vacation rental, tries to escape from a hungry shark that made it's way into the house.
Jungle Run
VFX Artist
A brother and sister's journey into the jungle to find their missing father.
Aquarium of the Dead
VFX Artist
A scientific mishap causes the species of an aquarium to become zombies.
Ape vs. Monster
VFX Artist
An ape crash-lands on Earth, which creates a sludge that makes him and a passing lizard grow to giant-size, resulting in a fight for dominance.
Alien Conquest
VFX Artist
Sibling astronomers join forces with the military when hostile aliens attack Earth.
Triassic Hunt
VFX Artist
When two genetically created dinosaurs end up on the loose, it's up to a team of rag tag mercenaries to capture them. When the realize that the dinosaurs are bred as smart as humans, the game of cat and mouse turns for the worst.
Blood on Her Badge
VFX Artist
Follows the true crime tale of Dee Johnson, a charming and eager young cop.
Airliner Sky Battle
VFX Artist
Russian operatives hijack a commercial American jet, planning to crash it into a nuclear power plant near Washington, D.C. resulting in fallout that will devastate the Eastern seaboard. With little time for Air Force fighters to shoot it down, the passengers and crew aboard the aircraft must rely on their own military and civilian training to stop the terrorists before it's too late.
Sweet Autumn
Digital Compositor
Maggie, a successful entrepreneur, returns home for a will reading and discovers she’s inherited half of her aunt’s famed maple candy business. What she doesn’t understand is why Aunt Dee’s maple supplier, Dex, inherited the other half. Her return also coincides with the town’s Sweet Autumn Fest, and through a series of letters Aunt Dee left, Maggie and Dex search for the reason behind her aunt’s final wishes. As she and Dex grow closer, Maggie must decide if the life she built is the one she wants.
Monster Hunters
VFX Artist
When an alien prison ship crash lands and unleashes creature after creature in the California desert, they make quick work of the army that tries to stop them. Now, the only hope of stopping the aliens rests with a secret branch of the government specializing in alien weaponry. But with the team untested in actual combat, the battle for Earth will be brutal.
Shark Season
VFX Artist
Dozens of great white sharks attack the sleepy coastal town of Goldcoast, CA, resulting in several deaths and forcing the town council to bring in a group of marine biologists and shark hunters to solve the problem. But when one shark in particular refuses to go down without a fight, it will take all of the biologists’ and hunters’ knowhow to defeat the creature for good.
Another Mother
VFX Artist
After accepting his proposal, hospitality queen Kristen Carter couldn’t be more excited to marry Ryan Munson, and to become a mother to his ten-year-old daughter, Lisa. But, when strange and deadly things start to happen around her, Kristen starts to worry whether she’ll ever see her wedding day at all…
Top Gunner
VFX Artist
Recent graduates of a secluded U.S. Air Force base must protect a gene-editing bioweapon from the Russian military—who are desperate to seize the deadly viral agent at any cost.
Collision Earth
VFX Artist
A large meteor shower unexpectedly bombards planet Earth. Scientists rush to the scene of the first impact and the race is on to find a solution to save humanity.
Homeward
Visual Effects
A boastful elf and his prank-happy orc brother must learn to work together to stop a fiendish orc gang from retrieving a magical stone that will give them the power to take over the world.
Winter in Vail
VFX Artist
Chelsea inherits a house in Vail. She meets Owen and gets a much needed break. Together, they put on Strudelfest to highlight the charm of Old Vail.
Christmas Belles
VFX Artist
Despite being successful in their careers, two 30-something BFFs never stop hearing that they both need a man before it's too late. When a handsome pastor arrives just in time to kick off the Christmas season, both ladies try to make a move-but as their hilarious attempts to one up each other keep growing, it will be up to their family to remind them what the holiday season is truly about.
Clown
VFX Artist
A group of teens fights for their lives as they find themselves trapped in a fun-house, stalked by a killer clown who won't rest until every last one of them is dead.
Arctic Apocalypse
VFX Artist
A massive influx of glacial melting triggers a new ice age in the Northern Hemisphere, forcing a family to make their way across the ice-covered landscape before they are frozen out for good.
Zoombies 2
VFX Artist
A game ranger arresting poachers ends up saving their lives when zombie animals attack them in the jungle. Now surrounded, the game ranger and poachers forge uneasy alliance to stop the beasts before the super-zombie virus spreads to entire world.
The Last Sharknado: It's About Time
Additional Visual Effects
With much of America lying in ruins, the rest of the world braces for a global sharknado, Fin and his family must travel around the world to stop them.
Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens
VFX Artist
The new installment of the Sharknado franchise takes place 5 years after Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! There have been no Sharknados in the intervening years, but now they’re appearing again in unexpected ways.
Bone Alone
VFX Artist
When a family visits Grandma's house on Christmas Eve, they leave their dog at home alone. And when burglars try to take the presents from under the tree, the dog must use every trick it knows to stop them.
13/13/13
Visual Effects
It's the 13th month of the 13th year of the new millennium.
Sharknado
VFX Artist
A freak hurricane hits Los Angeles, causing man-eating sharks to be scooped up in tornadoes and flooding the city with shark-infested seawater. Surfer and bar-owner Fin sets out with his friends Baz and Nova to rescue his estranged wife April and teenage daughter Claudia.
Good Luck Chuck
CG Artist
Cursed since childhood, dentist Charlie Logan cannot find the right woman. Even worse, he learns that each of his ex-girlfriends finds true love with the man she meets after her relationship with him ends. Hearing of Charlie's reputation as a good-luck charm, women from all over line up for a quick tryst. But when Charlie meets the woman of his dreams, he must find a way to break the curse or risk losing her to the next man she meets.
300
VFX Artist
Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy.
Torque
VFX Artist
Biker Cary Ford is framed by an old rival and biker gang leader for the murder of another gang member who happens to be the brother of Trey, leader of the most feared biker gang in the country. Ford is now on the run trying to clear his name from the murder with Trey and his gang looking for his blood.
Freddy vs. Jason
3D Artist
Freddy Krueger enlists Jason Voorhees to kill on his behalf on Elm Street, in order to restore fear and haunt children's dreams.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
VFX Artist
To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.
Agent Cody Banks
VFX Artist
Recruited by the U.S. government to be a special agent, nerdy teenager Cody Banks must get closer to cute classmate Natalie in order to learn about an evil plan hatched by her father. But despite the agent persona, Cody struggles with teen angst.