- John Knoll
John Knoll is an Academy-award winning motion picture visual effects specialist at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). One of the original creators of Adobe Photoshop (along with his brother, Thomas), he is recently best known for his work as Visual Effects Supervisor on the "Star Wars" prequels and the 1997 special editions of the original trilogy.
- John Dykstra
John Charles Dykstra (born June 3 1947 in Long Beach, California, United States) is a two-time Academy Award-winning special effects supervisor and pioneer in the development of the use of computers in film making. After studying industrial design, Dykstra landed a job working with Douglas Trumbull on "Silent Running" filming model effects. When George Lucas was recruiting people for the special effects work on "Star Wars", …
- Richard Edlund
Richard Edlund (born December 6 1940, Fargo, North Dakota) is a multi-Academy Award-winning US special effects photographer. After first joining the Navy, he developed an interest in experimental film and enrolled in film school in California in the late 60s.
- Doug Chiang
Doug Chiang is an American movie designer and artist. He was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1962 and grew up in the United States. Chiang studied film at UCLA and industrial design at the College for Creative Studies. During the late 1980's he worked at various production studios including Rhythm and Hues. Chiang eventually joined Industrial Light and Magic as a creative director where he worked on films such as "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "Forrest Gump".
- Alex Lindsay
Alex Lindsay, founder of the Pixel Corps, has been involved in computer graphics for nearly 20 years. Having extensive experience in digital production including print, real-time graphics, multimedia titles, forensic animation, television, and film, he spent several years on the production of "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" (at JAK Films and then at Industrial Light and Magic).
- Adam Savage
Adam John Savage (born July 15, 1967) is an American television co-host on the program "MythBusters" on the Discovery Channel.
- Grant Imahara
Grant Imahara (born October 23, 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is an American electronics and radio control expert known for his work as a Build Team member on the American television show "MythBusters". He is credited in many special effects works done by Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), where he worked for nine years - in particular, …
- Tory Belleci
Salvatore "Tory" Belleci (born October 30, 1970 in Monterey, California) is a film maker and model maker. He is best known for his work on the Discovery Channel television program "MythBusters". He has also worked with Industrial Light and Magic on films such as "The Phantom Menace" and "Attack of the Clones". The Federation battleships and podracers are some of Tory's pieces. He attended San Francisco State University.
- Stu Maschwitz
Stuart T. Maschwitz, commonly known as Stu Maschwitz, is the co-founder and chief technology officer of The Orphanage, a visual effects company in California. He has worked as senior visual effects supervisor on several films. He previously worked at Industrial Light and Magic. Maschwitz was writer, director, cinematographer, and editor for the film "The Last Birthday Card" (2000).
- Ronald Fedkiw
Ronald Fedkiw is a leading researcher in the field of computer graphics, focusing on topics relating to physical simulation of natural phenomena and level sets. Fedkiw received his Ph.D in Applied Mathematics from UCLA in 1996. He completed postdoctoral studies both at UCLA in Mathematics and at Caltech in Aeronautics before joining the Stanford Computer Science Department. Fedkiw is now an assistant professor in the department of computer science.
- Paul Gilger
Paul Gilger (born October 13, 1954 in Mansfield, Ohio) is an American architect, set designer, and playwright. He conceived the off-Broadway Jerry Herman musical revue "Showtune". A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, Gilger designed the Industrial Light and Magic Film Studios in San Rafael, California for filmmaker George Lucas ("Star Wars", "Indiana Jones") in 1991. He assisted in the conceptual designs for the Disney/MGM Film Studios in Tokyo, …
- Wayne Gilbert
Wayne Gilbert is a Canadian working in Vancouver as a Senior Animation Director for Electronic Arts. His computer-animated short "Let Go" won a Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival. It was his second film created while working at ILM. The first was "CPU". Prior to that he created 2D shorts titled "Bottoms Up" and "Traffic Jam" which was accepted into the Anncey Animation Festival.
- Dennis Muren
The only living human being to have won 8 Oscars, Dennis Muren is an innovator in the visual effects industry, responsible for overseeing work on hits such as Jurassic Park, Star Wars, War of the Worlds and The Hulk. In this interview, Dennis talks about breaking into Hollywood as an artist, and how to reach the pinnacle of success as he has.
- Todd Widup
Over the last 10 years, I have worked on everything from Addy awarding winning regional commercials, to triple A rated video games to oscar winning films. My roles have also ranged from modeler to animator, to mocap artist, to creature TD to cg supervisor. Video Games : Altered Beasts : GBA; Shinobi : GBA; NHL Rivals : XBox; Top Spin Tennis : XBox; C&C Renegade : PC; C&C Generals : PC; Tiger Woods 2003 : all skus; Unnannounced tactical shooter with Unreal 3 engine : XBox . . .
- Dan Shumaker
Son of Sonja Christopher
- Erich Ippen
- Pat Tubach
- Stacy Bissell
- Colum Slevin
- Daryl Munton
- Samson
"john samson is currently flying through the cosmos, screaming at the top of his lungs on a mountaintop. he is a very saucy gentleman, extremely intelligent, intuitive, long since understood his place and meaning on this lovely blue planet. he is somewhat well traveled, knows the streets of cuzco just as well as picadilly circus. he is ambidextrous, and can play the trumpet, piano, drums, guitar, and xylophone.
- Juan-Luis Sanchez
Be sure to check out my new photo blog.
- Tj Burke
Everybody fuckin loves me. At least once. Usually behind the dumpster.
- Benjamin Hawkins
i turned the volume down until I can get some new music files... you can turn it up still, its the grey horizontal bar..
- Rob
I've been in the VFX industry for quite awhile. I bounce between video games and feature films. I got engaged this year to my girlfriend (sarah) of 10 years! Wish i did it sooner ;)
- Meghan Thornton
- Gregory Frank
I am a funny, nice and friendly Guy. I get lonely sometimes but for the most part I am happy and energentic. I have been told I am one of a kind. I am reliable, trustworthy and a hard worker. I have a good sense of humor and easy to get along with. I love movies and Video games. I have over 400 DVDs and 500 Video games to my name. I have seem more movies then most people I know and hope to one day be an Actor.
- Casey Basichis
(See above interests) + Aspiring secret agent (or martini drinking eccentric villian with pencil thin mustache [though i cannot grow one]) + 2080's futurist (al la Back to the Future 2), Draming of a Virgin Mary Tattoo on my chest, orthodox jewish children with confused looks on their faces, and my own facist dictatorship on a small island with lots of sun, sand, and girlie drinks with those little umbrella thingys.
- David
http://www.daveyee.com.
- David Oliver
"THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE GONE.
- Grant
Mythbusting.
- Casey
Diamond is one of the hardest (if not THE hardest) metals known to man! Due to extensive research done by the Fourchon University of Science, diamond has been confirmed as the the hardest metal known the man. The research is as follows. Pocket-protected scientists built a wall of iron and crashed a diamond car into it at 400 miles per hour, and the car was unharmed.
- Stephen Parish
WELLLL... The days of San Fran are over! You can see my ILM work at the moment, look for my name at the end of; Pirates 3, Evan Almighty and Harry Potter 5.. Although my name is amongst 14000 others, bah! I am now working in commercials again as a CG Supervisor for Smoke and Mirrors in NY, its good to be back!
- Tristan Tom
I AM: SF Bay Area (in L.A. often) photographer.
- Kelly Prince
I like cheese.
- Terrance Tribble
Hello, My name is Terrance A. Tribble. I enjoy long rolls on the beach, high-protein grain and starring in tv shows with fat, bad actors.
- Allen Holbrook
I'm happy.
- Kameron
Hey, this is Kam.
- Brian Fong
i'm a dork.
- Pete Ward
A complete fucktard hidden beneath a thin veneer of sensibility.