Anthony Richard Chiang

Anthony Chiang was born on February 14, 1965 in Oakland, California.  He and his family lived in Oakland and then San Francisco for a time before moving to Hercules in 1976.  The youngest of five brothers, Anthony set himself apart by being brash and bold.  He loved comic books, movies and video games and was able to turn his passions into a career.  While attending Pinole Valley High School in the early 80’s, he founded The Chiang Brothers Software company, coding video games on the family Apple II computer as a hobby.  Many of the games were published on SoftDisk, a pre-internet computing magazine distributed on floppy disks.

While majoring in English at U.C. Berkeley, Anthony parlayed his SoftDisk connections into an internship at their Shreveport, Louisiana office.  There, he had found his calling, and upon his return to the Bay Area (Albany, CA) he became a 3D Modeler/Art Technician for several video game developers including Spectrum HoloByte, LucasArts, and Nihilistic.  He is credited with work on 25 games including Falcon 3.0, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, Starcraft: Ghost, and Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects.  A full list of game credits is available at https://www.mobygames.com/person/1819/anthony-chiang/.

Never afraid to take on new challenges, Anthony in 2010 literally moved around the world to begin work as a layout director in the visual effects industry, starting at Weta Digital in Wellington, New Zealand where he contributed on several blockbusters including X-Men: First Class, The Avengers, The Hobbit series, Iron Man 3, and the Planet of the Apes series.  Following his time at Weta, he worked a stint at Mill Film in Adelaide, South Australia, before moving to Montreal, Canada in 2019 to work at Mr. X, Scanline VFX, and then Framestore.  His full movie credits are listed on his IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4897221/.   

In between work, Anthony loved to travel and explore the world, but always made time to meet up with friends and spend holidays with his family.  He maintained a vast comic book collection, was a solid ringer on movie trivia night, and enjoyed cheering on all the Bay Area sports teams.  Anthony passed away unexpectedly in Montreal on April 3, 2023, at the age of 58.  He was predeceased by his parents Tit and May Chiang.  He is survived by his brothers Raymond (Vivian), John, Samuel, and Kenneth (Trudy); nephew Zachary; nieces Samantha and Chloe; stepsister Maggie (Peter); and stepmother Hai Yan.