João Sita is a visual effects supervisor at Framestore. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, he began his career in advertising before relocating to Canada around 2006, where he transitioned into feature films. Over the years, he has worked at several major VFX houses, including Hybride, Rodeo FX, Image Engine, and, since 2019, Framestore.
Sita’s early film work includes 300 (2006), Avatar (2009), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012), Ender’s Game (2013), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), and Assassin’s Creed (2016), and Jurassic World (2015).
Transitioning into television, Sita served as v… João Sita is a visual effects supervisor at Framestore. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, he began his career in advertising before relocating to Canada around 2006, where he transitioned into feature films. Over the years, he has worked at several major VFX houses, including Hybride, Rodeo FX, Image Engine, and, since 2019, Framestore.
Sita’s early film work includes 300 (2006), Avatar (2009), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012), Ender’s Game (2013), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), and Assassin’s Creed (2016), and Jurassic World (2015).
Transitioning into television, Sita served as visual effects supervisor for the first season of Netflix’s Lost in Space (2018), during which his team delivered 266 VFX shots, including forest fire scenes and alien creatures. He later joined Framestore’s Montreal studio, where he oversaw the creation of Amazon’s Fallout (2024), designing mutated beasts like the Yao Guai and Gulper.
Sita was a Primetime Emmy Award nominee for Lost in Space (2018) for Outstanding Special Visual Effects Television Academy, and again for Fallout (2024) in the same category. He has also been honoured by the Visual Effects Society, winning their award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode for Lost in Space (Episode “Danger, Will Robinson”) and earning nominations for Project Power (2020) and Jurassic World (2015).More
