- 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.
- Stephen Norrington
Stephen Norrington (born 1964, London) is a film director whose credits include "Death Machine" and the comic book adaptations "Blade" and "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Norrington was originally attached to the Dimension Films's "Ghost Rider" before the project was acquired by Columbia Pictures.
- Carlo Rambaldi
Carlo Rambaldi (born 1925 in Vigarano Mainarda, Italy) is an Italian-born special effects artist who is most famous for designing the title character of the 1982 super-smash hit "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" and the mechanical head-effects for the creature in "Alien". Rambaldi has also worked on "Profondo Rosso (Deep Red)" (1975), "King Kong" (1976), "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), "Dune" (1984), …
- Paul Pistore
Paul Pistore is a voice actor and puppeteer who is also known as Paul John Pistore.
- Ernie Fosselius
Ernie Fosselius is an American filmmaker, best known for his classic "Star Wars" parody "Hardware Wars". After performing with the San Francisco band Earth Mother and The Final Solution, Fosselius' film career began in the early 1970’s when he co-created 20 original animated films for "Sesame Street". Fosselius is known for his satirical short films. One of the most notable, made in 1976 for "Mother's Little Network", …
- Maya Kulenovic
Maya Kulenovic (born March 1, 1975) is a Canadian artist and painter. She was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and studied at Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada; Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey; and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, England. She is also an alumna of Goodenough College in London, England. She lives and works in Toronto, Canada, and exhibits nationally and internationally.
- Christiane Cegavske
Christiane Cegavske is an American artist and stop motion animator. She is primarily known for her animated film "Blood Tea and Red String" and for having done the animated segments to the movie "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things". She has also made a short film named "Blood and Sunflowers" and has done animation for the TV show "X-Chromosome".
- Richard Armiger
Richard Armiger (born Baltimore, Maryland) is an influential professional architectural model maker and founder of Network Modelmakers Ltd. Armiger attended Maryland Institute College of Art studying painting and sculpture. In England, he studied industrial design model making at the Kent Institute of Art & Design thereafter settling in London in 1982.
- Carlos Atanes
Carlos Atanes (born November 8, 1971) is an Spanish film director and writer. Born in Barcelona, Spain, Atanes has written and directed many works since 1987, using different genres and techniques (Hi-8 video, 35mm., etc). In 1991, he shoots "The Marvellous World of the Cucu Bird", which has been followed by another experimental works as "El Tenor Mental" (1993) and "Borneo" (1997).
- Seth Cardew
Seth Cardew is a studio potter born in Gloucestershire in 1934. He is the son of the influential potter Michael Cardew. He studied painting at Chelsea School of Art London and sculpture at Camberwell School of Art. He then worked as a model maker at Pinewood,Elstree and Sheperton Studios from 1960 to 1970 After his father's death in 1983, …
- Tess Girard
We came to earth to destroy human kind.
- Tom Pahk
Tom Pahk ... special effects shop supervisor Visual Effects Department
- Steve Gawley
Steve Gawley began his model making career as a student of Industrial Design at the campus of California State University at Long Beach, California. In 1975,while in school,he was recommended for a drafting job at George Lucas' newly formed film company, Industrial Light & Magic. Soon, Gawley became a visual effects model maker at ILM after completing orthographic drawings,of the now famous Star Wars spaceships. His pickup truck was later used to film the infamous Star Wars Deathstar...
- Dan Abdo
- Tom Martinek
- Dale Angell
- Aaron Haye
- Carter Burwell
Has composed scores for all the Coen Brothers' films. Has scored all of the films directed by Spike Jonze. One of 115 peopled invited to join AMPAS in 2007.
- Oliver Kirchhoff
- Carsten Woithe
Carsten Woithe .... pre-visualization technician
- Jack Edjourian
- Gudrun Heinze
- Noah Meddings
- David Wough
- Dale Tanguay
- Jeffrey Kalmus
Owner of Creative Imaging Alliance, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in the art and science of imaging for motion pictures. Jeff works as a VFX and Digital Imaging supervisor.
- Paul Ozzimo
- Mark Bullimore
- Eugene P. Rizzardi
Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - Visual Effects Branch. Member of the Visual Effects Society
- Marc Lougee
- Steven Elford
- Phil Brotherton
- Randy Vellacott
- Christopher Dray Dawson
Began working as a Visual Effects Production Assistant in 1985 while still attending college at the Univerity of Southern California, School of Fine Arts. Graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting and Photography) degree in 1988. Experience is diverse in traditional VFX techniques as well as digital 2d and 3d applications. Worked at various Visual Effects facilities (staff and freelance)including Praxis Filmworks (freelance 1985-1990), Title House (staff 1988), Introvision...
- Ease Owyeung
- Jack Haye
- Christopher Roth
Was romantically linked to actress Mavie Hörbiger for some years. Studied at the School of Television and Film in Munich from 1983 to 1989.
- Virginie Degorgue
- Colin Chilvers
He has nephews and a neice also in Special Effects. Chris Corbould, Neil Corbould, Paul Corbould, Ian Corbould and Gail Corbould.