Greg Rainoff

Gregory "Greg" Daniel Rainoff (born 1958; age ~66) is a visual effects animator who firstly worked for Digital Magic and later on at Digital Muse on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, while also having a later credit for Star Trek Nemesis. During his tenure at Digital Magic, Rainoff has also worked as digital effects artist on the Star Trek documentaries Star Trek: A Captain's Log (1994) and William Shatner's Star Trek Memories (1995). His work on Star Trek has earned him ten Emmy Award nominations and four wins in the category "Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series", comprising all three television series.

Upon closure of Digital Muse in 2000, Rainoff has since then predominantly worked as a free-lancer, securing a commission as "digital compositor" at Digital Domain for Star Trek Nemesis.

Outside of the Star Trek franchise, he worked as compositor on the short drama I? (2005, starring Sharon Lawrence) and on the horror sequel Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005, with Steve Fong, Paul Hill, and Eddie Robison).

In 2010 he worked as director and producer on the documentary about the 3.5 miles of border wall dividing San Diego, CA, from Tijuana, Mexico, El muro, of which he has stated, "I needed to do something good with myself.(...)I started a film about birds and it became about Human rights." [1] He followed up on this documentary with the equally socially involved 2011 short film Borrando la Frontera as editor and cinematographer, as well as location sound manager for the documentary Tierra Brillante of the same year.

Star Trek credits[]

Star Trek awards[]

Emmy Awards[]

Rainoff received the following Emmy Award wins and nominations in the category "Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series":

• 1998 Nomination for the episode "Year of Hell", shared with Mitch Suskin, Paul Hill, Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz, John Teska, Arthur J. Codron, Koji Kuramura, and Eric Chauvin
• 1999 Nomination for the episode "Timeless", shared with Mitch Suskin, Arthur J. Codron, Don Greenberg, Eric Chauvin, Rob Bonchune, John Allardice, Ron Thornton, John Teska, Dan Curry, and Sherry Hitch
• 1999 Nomination for the episode "Thirty Days", shared with Ronald B. Moore, Dan Curry, Paul Hill, Elizabeth Castro, and Bruce Branit
• 1999 Nomination for the episode "What You Leave Behind", shared with Dan Curry, Gary Hutzel, David Stipes, Adam Buckner, Arthur J. Codron, Judy Elkins, Gary Monak, Paul Maples, Steve Fong, Don Greenberg, Paul Hill, Davy Nethercutt, Kevin Bouchez, Adam Howard, Larry Younger, Sherry Hitch, Rob Bonchune, and David Lombardi
• 1999 Win for the episode "Dark Frontier", shared with Dan Curry, Ronald B. Moore, Mitch Suskin, Elizabeth Castro, Arthur J. Codron, Paul Hill, Don Greenberg, Rob Bonchune, Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz, and John Teska
• 2000 Nomination for the episode "The Haunting of Deck Twelve", shared with Dan Curry, Ronald B. Moore, Elizabeth Castro, Paul Hill, John F. Gross, Bruce Branit, Fred Pienkos, and Jeremy Hunt
• 2001 Nomination for the episode "Workforce", shared with Dan Curry, Ronald B. Moore, Chad Zimmerman, Paul Hill, Dave Morton, David Lombardi, John Teska, and Brandon MacDougall
• 2001 Win for the episode "Endgame", shared with Dan Curry, Mitch Suskin, Ronald B. Moore, Arthur J. Codron, Steve Fong, Eric Chauvin, Rob Bonchune, and John Teska
• 2002 Nomination for the episode "Breaking the Ice", shared with David Stipes, Adam Buckner, Paul Hill, Adam Howard, John F. Gross, Steven Joseph Rogers, Fred Pienkos, and Eddie Robison
• 2002 Win for the episode "Broken Bow", shared with Dan Curry, Ronald B. Moore, Arthur J. Codron, Elizabeth Castro, Paul Hill, Steve Fong, Rob Bonchune, and Dave Morton
• 2003 Nomination for the episode "Dead Stop", shared with Mitch Suskin, Arthur J. Codron, Steve Fong, Rob Bonchune, Pierre Drolet, Sean M. Scott, John Teska, and Koji Kuramura
• 2003 Nomination for the episode "The Expanse", shared with Dan Curry, Ronald B. Moore, Elizabeth Castro, Paul Hill, Fred Pienkos, Sean M. Scott, Eric Hance, and Bruce Branit
• 2004 Nomination for the episode "The Council", shared with Arthur J. Codron, Dan Curry, Steve Fong, John Teska, Sean Jackson, Michael Stetson, Koji Kuramura, and Pierre Drolet
• 2004 Win for the episode "Countdown", shared with Ronald B. Moore, Dan Curry, Elizabeth Castro, Paul Hill, Fred Pienkos, Sean M. Scott, David R. Morton, and Chris Zapara

External link[]

• Gregory Rainoff at the Internet Movie Database