Highly prolific, he produced advertisements and short films for clients like Guinness Brewery, PepsiCo, and British Airways.
[2][3] The film contained numerous visual effects shots utilizing scale models composited into rendered backgrounds.
Vanlint was initially approached by Scott to shoot his follow-up film Blade Runner, but he turned the offer down and was replaced by Jordan Cronenweth.
Until his death in 2010, Vanlint worked almost exclusively on commercials in Canada, though he briefly returned to feature films in the year 2000, handling special effects photography for the X-Men and serving as DP and director on the horror thriller The Spreading Ground, starring Dennis Hopper.
Throughout his career, he worked on advertisements for such companies as British Airways, Chevrolet, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Guinness, Kellogg's, Levi's, Maxwell House, Pepsi, and Visa.