Special effects people

Adam Savage (born july 15, 1967 in New York City, and raised in Westchester County, NY) is an American television host on the program MythBusters on the Discovery Channel. Before becoming a TV host, he spent 10 years as an artisan in special effects, specifically modelmaking for companies such as Industrial Light and Magic, Warner Bros. and Disney. He worked on such films as Star Wars Episodes I and II, The Matrix sequels, Bicentennial Man, A.I., Space Cowboys, and others. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adam Savage"

Al Magliochetti is a film visual effects artist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Al Magliochetti"

Brian Johnson is a specialist for television and movie special effects. He is best known for his special effects work on Thunderbirds, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Space: 1999, Alien, and Aliens. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brian Johnson (special effects)"

Brothers Greg and Colin Strause (known as Brothers Strause) are a directing duo and special effects artists who grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. They began experimenting with visual effects in their early teens. In 1995, they moved to Los Angeles and started working on the special effects for The X-Files. From there they moved on to big-budget hits such as The Nutty Professor, Volcano, and the iceberg sequence of the Academy Award-winning Titanic. They then broke into the music video and commercial arena, handling the special effects for artists such as U2, Britney Spears, Tool, and Aerosmith as well as spots for Nike, Jeep, and Pepsi. In 2000, Colin won a MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction for the Red Hot Chili Peppers' video, "Californication." This led the brothers to start directing under the moniker "The Brothers Strause," and their Linkin Park clip "Crawling" was nominated for Best Direction and Best Rock Video at the 2001 VMA's. Other artists they have directed for include A Perfect Circle, Nickelback, Disturbed, and Staind. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brothers Strause"

Carlo Rambaldi (born 1925 in Vigarano Mainarda, Italy) is an Italian-born special effects artist who is most famous for designing title character of the 1982 super-smash hit E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Alien. Rambaldi has also worked on Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977) and King Kong Lives ( 1986). ...more on Wikipedia about "Carlo Rambaldi"

David Rindner is a visual effects artist, technical director, and visual effects consultant with multiple credits in advertising, film, and television digital visual effects. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Rindner"

David Allen (1944-1999) ...more on Wikipedia about "David W. Allen" Go crack a www.shortopedia.com!

Dennis Muren (born November 1, 1946) is an American film special effects artist, most notable for his work on the films of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dennis Muren"

Derek Meddings ( 15 January 1931– 10 September 1995) was a British television and cinema special effects expert, initially noted for his work on the " Supermarionation" television puppet series produced by Gerry Anderson. ...more on Wikipedia about "Derek Meddings"

Douglas Trumbull (born April 8, 1942) is a film director and special effects supervisor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Douglas Trumbull"

Eiji Tsuburaya (円谷英二 Tsuburaya Eiji) ( July 7, 1901 – January 25, 1970, in Sukagawa, Fukushima) was responsible for the special effects on many Japanese movies, including the Godzilla series (1954–??). ...more on Wikipedia about "Eiji Tsuburaya"

Sound effects man Eugene Twombley was the second husband of American actress Bea Benaderet. He died of a heart attack in 1968, only a week after her death. They are buried together at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eugene Twombley"

Georges Méliès ( December 8, 1861 – January 21, 1938), full name Maries-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a Formalist French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. He was born in Paris, where his family manufactured shoes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Georges Méliès"

James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian-born American film director noted for his action/ science fiction films, which are often extremely successful financially. Thematically, James Cameron's films generally explore the relationship between man and technology. He frequently works with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, Michael Biehn and Jenette Goldstein. Cameron directed the film Titanic which went on to become the top grossing film of all time, with a worldwide gross of over US$1.8 billion. ...more on Wikipedia about "James Cameron"

Jamie Hyneman (born 1956 in Marshall, Michigan) is a visual effects expert, best known for being the co-host of the television series MythBusters. He is also the founder of M5 Industries, a special effects workshop where MythBusters is filmed. He, along with M5 Industries, is also known in the BattleBots circles for his robot entry, Blendo, that was, for a time, deemed too powerful for competition. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jamie Hyneman"

Stop motion master animator, and well known for his matte-painting skill. Jim Danforth is best known for his work on " When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth", a sequel of sorts to Harryhausen's One Million Years B.C.. Danforth later went on to work under Harryhausen on the film " Clash of the Titans", in which he was responsible for the animation of the winged horse Pegasus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jim Danforth"

John Charles Dykstra (born June 3, 1947 in Long Beach, California) is a 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 he approached Trumbull who pointed him towards Dykstra. Dykstra led the development at Industrial Light and Magic of the computer controlled motion capture camera system, Dykstraflex, that was responsible for many of the films groundbreaking effects. The system was made possible by the availability of off the shelf micro-processors at relatively low cost and secondhand VistaVision cameras. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Dykstra"

John Gaeta (born c. 1965) is a visual effects designer and director best known for his work on the Matrix film trilogy, where he advanced and popularized the effects known as " bullet time," virtual cinematography, universal capture, and CGI pre visualization. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Gaeta"

John P. Fulton (born 1902 in Nebraska and died October 1, 1965 in London, England) was an American special effects supervisor and cinematographer. ...more on Wikipedia about "John P. Fulton"

Kevin Yagher (born June 23, 1962 in Illinois, USA) is a special effects technician, known for Freddy Krueger's makeup, the Cryptkeeper from Tales from the Crypt, and Child's Play. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kevin Yagher"

Koichi Kawakita (川北絋一 - Kawakita Kôichi) (born in Tokyo, Japan on December 5, 1942) is a special effects artist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Koichi Kawakita" Go crack a shortopedia!

Matthew J. Yuricich (born January 19, 1923) is an American Academy Award-winning special effects artist. Yuricich won the 1976 Academy Special Achievement Award for visual effects in the movie Logan's Run. ...more on Wikipedia about "Matthew Yuricich"

Mike Jittlov is the creator of many inventive movies using stop-motion animation, also known as pixilation. The Wizard of Speed and Time, released in 1989, is his best known work. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mike Jittlov"

Mike Tucker (born South Wales) is a special effects expert working for BBC Television, and also the author of a variety of spin-offs relating to the television series Doctor Who. He sometimes co-writes with Robert Perry, and usually for the character of the Seventh Doctor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mike Tucker"

Ray Harryhausen (born June 29, 1920 in Los Angeles, California) is an American producer and, most notably, a special effects creator. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ray Harryhausen"

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