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class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1969–2022</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span style="white-space:nowrap;">Notable work</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_(film)" title="Star Wars (film)">Star Wars</a> - <a href="/wiki/The_Day_After" title="The Day After">The Day After</a> - <a href="/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage" title="Cosmos: A Personal Voyage">Cosmos: A Personal Voyage</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Robert Blalack</b> (December 9, 1948 – February 2, 2022) was a Panama-born American mass-media <a href="/wiki/Visual_arts" title="Visual arts">visual artist</a>, independent filmmaker, and producer. He is one of the founders of <a href="/wiki/Industrial_Light_%26_Magic" title="Industrial Light & Magic">Industrial Light & Magic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Blalack received the <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Visual_Effects" title="Academy Award for Best Visual Effects">Academy Award for Best Visual Effects</a> in 1978 for his work on the first <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_(film)" title="Star Wars (film)"><i>Star Wars</i></a> film. He also received the <a href="/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Special_Visual_Effects" title="Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects">Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects</a> in 1984 for his work on the 1983 television film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Day_After" title="The Day After">The Day After</a></i>. Blalack directed <a href="/wiki/Experimental_film" title="Experimental film">experimental films</a> and mixed-media <a href="/wiki/Television_commercials" class="mw-redirect" title="Television commercials">television commercials</a>, and he produced visual effects for <a href="/wiki/Amusement_park" title="Amusement park">theme park</a> rides. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_education">Life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Blalack&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Robert Blalack was born in Panama on December 9, 1948. He attended <a href="/wiki/St_Paul%27s_School,_London" title="St Paul's School, London">St. Paul's School</a> in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> before receiving a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a> in English Literature and <a href="/wiki/Theatre" title="Theatre">Theater Arts</a> from <a href="/wiki/Pomona_College" title="Pomona College">Pomona College</a> in <a href="/wiki/Claremont,_California" title="Claremont, California">Claremont, California</a>. As the college did not have a film school, Blalack taught himself filmmaking by directing non-narrative <a href="/wiki/Experimental_film" title="Experimental film">experimental films</a> using a second-hand 16mm <a href="/wiki/Bolex" title="Bolex">Bolex camera</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After graduating from Pomona, he attended the <a href="/wiki/California_Institute_of_the_Arts" title="California Institute of the Arts">California Institute of the Arts</a>, receiving a <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Fine_Arts" title="Master of Fine Arts">Master of Fine Arts</a> in Film Studies in 1973. While attending the Institute, he was a teaching assistant for <a href="/wiki/Pat_O%27Neill_(filmmaker)" title="Pat O'Neill (filmmaker)">Pat O'Neil</a>, an experimental filmmaker. Meanwhile, he continued his work in experimental film before co-directing his first feature film, <i>The Words</i> (1973), with Professor <a href="/wiki/Don_Levy" title="Don Levy">Don Levy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Blalack died from cancer on February 2, 2022, at the age of 73.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Blalack&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_experimental_films">Early experimental films</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Blalack&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early experimental films"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Over/Done</i> (1970) 24 minutes</li> <li><i>If They Only Knew</i> (1969) 20 minutes</li> <li><i>Navajo Mountain</i> (1972) 36 minutes</li> <li><i>The Words</i> (1973) 26 minutes</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_professional_career">Early professional career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Blalack&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Early professional career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1973, Blalack worked night shifts at Crest Film Labs (later renamed <a href="/wiki/Crest_Digital" title="Crest Digital">Crest Digital</a>), operating an <a href="/wiki/Optical_printer" title="Optical printer">optical printer</a> making 35mm to 16mm TV negatives. </p><p>For <i><a href="/wiki/Hearts_and_Minds_(film)" title="Hearts and Minds (film)">Hearts And Minds</a></i> (1974), Blalack animated director <a href="/wiki/Peter_Davis_(director)" title="Peter Davis (director)">Peter Davis</a>´s smuggled photographs of <a href="/wiki/C%C3%B4n_S%C6%A1n_Island" title="Côn Sơn Island">Con Son Island</a> Tiger Cage prisoners.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film went on to receive an Academy Award recipient for Best Documentary Feature.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Blalack created a first-person subjective <a href="/wiki/Compositing" title="Compositing">optical effects</a> sequence designed to put the audience in the driver's seat of a Formula One race car for the film <a href="/wiki/One_by_One_(1975_film)" title="One by One (1975 film)">One By One</a> (1975).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Blalack formed Praxis Film Works, Inc.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> during his work on <i>One by One</i>. After <i>One By One</i>, Blalack continued to produce optical effects for low-budget Hollywood movies and <a href="/wiki/Compositing" title="Compositing">optical composites</a> for high-end TV commercials. </p><p>In 1975, Blalack worked with the two leading visual effects innovators, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Abel_(animator)" title="Robert Abel (animator)">Robert Abel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Trumbull" title="Douglas Trumbull">Douglas Trumbull</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Trumbull commissioned Blalack to make a 16mm promo showcasing the creativity of Trumbull's visual effects studio, Future General. While making this documentary, Blalack met Trumbull's cameraman <a href="/wiki/John_Dykstra" title="John Dykstra">John Dykstra</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Star_Wars_(1975-77)"><span id="Star_Wars_.281975-77.29"></span><i>Star Wars</i> (1975-77)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Blalack&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Star Wars (1975-77)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In June 1975, <a href="/wiki/George_Lucas" title="George Lucas">George Lucas</a> chose <a href="/wiki/John_Dykstra" title="John Dykstra">John Dykstra</a> to supervise the visual effects for <i>Star Wars</i>. Dykstra asked Blalack to help build the Star Wars <a href="/wiki/VistaVision" title="VistaVision">VistaVision</a> Visual Effects facility. As one of the founders of <a href="/wiki/Industrial_Light_%26_Magic" title="Industrial Light & Magic">Industrial Light & Magic</a>, Blalack's responsibility was to create crucial ILM VistaVision Photographic Optical Composite and <a href="/wiki/Rotoscoping" title="Rotoscoping">Rotoscope</a> Animation production pipelines that would mass-produce a record 365 VistaVision-to-35mm <a href="/wiki/Panavision" title="Panavision">Panavision</a> <a href="/wiki/Anamorphic_format" title="Anamorphic format">anamorphic</a> visual effects composites. </p><p>No modern VistaVision photographic blue-screen pipeline existed when <a href="/wiki/Industrial_Light_%26_Magic" title="Industrial Light & Magic">ILM</a> was founded. The modest budget of <i>Star Wars</i> dictated that Blalack gather obsolete VistaVision optical composite equipment, modernize and debug each mechanical and optical component, devise methods to mass-produce 365 Visual Effects composites, design the Rotoscope Department, and then hire and train the Optical Composite and Rotoscope crew. Blalack supervised the design and fabrication of the world's first and only aerial image <a href="/wiki/Diffraction-limited_system" title="Diffraction-limited system">diffraction-limited</a> VistaVision-to-35mm optical composite system. The <i>Star Wars</i> 365 VistaVision Visual Effects shots contained 1,250 original VistaVision color negative elements, from which more than 10,000 <a href="/wiki/RGB_color_model" title="RGB color model">RGB</a> black and white color Separations, mattes, and other intermediate VistaVision composite elements were generated. All of these VistaVision Visual Effects composite elements were photographed and composited during the final seven months of the <i>Star Wars</i> production.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the <i>Star Wars</i> 40th anniversary, Blalack spoke to the assembled crew: "All of us changed the direction of filmmaking. Because of you, visions that were once completely impossible are now within reach. And you know, it wasn't always like that. We discovered that building ILM from scratch during production was like jumping out of a low-budget airplane, and stitching up a parachute during free-fall."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Star_Wars_Academy_Award_(1978)"><span id="Star_Wars_Academy_Award_.281978.29"></span><i>Star Wars</i> Academy Award (1978)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Blalack&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Star Wars Academy Award (1978)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Blalack received the 1978 <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Visual_Effects" title="Academy Award for Best Visual Effects">Best Visual Effects Academy Award</a> for his work on <i>Star Wars</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage"><i>Cosmos: A Personal Voyage</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Blalack&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1980, Blalack produced visual effects for 12 of the 13 episodes of <a href="/wiki/Carl_Sagan" title="Carl Sagan">Carl Sagan's</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage" title="Cosmos: A Personal Voyage">Cosmos: A Personal Voyage</a></i>, in collaboration with the series producer <a href="/wiki/Adrian_Malone" title="Adrian Malone">Adrian Malone</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Day_After"><i>The Day After</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Blalack&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: The Day After"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1983, Blalack designed and produced <i><a href="/wiki/The_Day_After" title="The Day After">The Day After</a></i> visual effects. To determine what visual effects the movie needed, the Praxis team created <a href="/wiki/Storyboard" title="Storyboard">storyboards</a> to visualize the effects of nuclear detonations and their aftermath, and the missile contrails of US-launched ICBMs, from the perspective of the population of two cities in <a href="/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas">Kansas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Praxis calculated that the number of angles and shots that would be required to simulate a <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_bomb" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear bomb">nuclear bomb</a> <a href="/wiki/Mushroom_cloud" title="Mushroom cloud">mushroom cloud</a> on 35mm high-speed blue screen film would not be possible to produce within the modest production budget. Instead, Blalack decided to create both the nuclear bomb simulations and the missile contrails of US-launched <a href="/wiki/Intercontinental_ballistic_missile" title="Intercontinental ballistic missile">ICBMs</a> in a custom-built, computer-controlled water tank, where the interaction between the iconic mushroom cloud “cap” and “stem” could be separately controlled with precision.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Day_After_Emmy_(1984)"><span id="The_Day_After_Emmy_.281984.29"></span><i>The Day After</i> Emmy (1984)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Blalack&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: The Day After Emmy (1984)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1984 Blalack received the <a href="/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Special_Visual_Effects" title="Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects">Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement, Special Visual Effects</a> for his work on <i>The Day After</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Additional_motion_picture_work">Additional motion picture work</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Blalack&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Additional motion picture work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p> Blalack created and produced visual effects for many motion pictures, including: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Blues_Brothers_(film)" title="The Blues Brothers (film)">Blues Brothers</a></i> (1980): Worked with director <a href="/wiki/John_Landis" title="John Landis">John Landis</a> and producer <a href="/wiki/Robert_Weiss_(producer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Weiss (producer)">Robert Weiss</a> to design and produce the visual effects for the “Nazis Drive off the End of the Unfinished Freeway” sequence.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Airplane!" title="Airplane!">Airplane!</a></i> (1980): Produced the iconic <a href="/wiki/Title_sequence" title="Title sequence">opening sequence</a> of the tail fin of a passenger jet swimming back and forth through clouds, set to the theme music from <i>Jaws</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Altered_States" title="Altered States">Altered States</a></i> (1980): Worked with director <a href="/wiki/Ken_Russell" title="Ken Russell">Ken Russell</a> to design and produce special optical effects sequences simulating the psychedelic effects experienced by <a href="/wiki/William_Hurt" title="William Hurt">William Hurt's</a> character.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wolfen_(film)" title="Wolfen (film)">Wolfen</a></i> (1981): Worked with Academy Award winner <a href="/wiki/Michael_Wadleigh" title="Michael Wadleigh">Michael Wadleigh</a> to design and produce the “Wolf Vision” special visual effects. Wolf Vision incorporated multi-layered RGB color separation optical composites of the <i>Wolfen</i> POV cinematography shot by <a href="/wiki/Steadicam" title="Steadicam">Steadicam</a> inventor <a href="/wiki/Garrett_Brown" title="Garrett Brown">Garret Brown</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cat_People_(1982_film)" title="Cat People (1982 film)">Cat People</a></i> (1982): Worked with director <a href="/wiki/Paul_Schrader" title="Paul Schrader">Paul Schrader</a> to design and produce the cat vision of <a href="/wiki/Nastassja_Kinski" title="Nastassja Kinski">Natasha Kinski's</a> character after she transforms into a black panther.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zu_Warriors_from_the_Magic_Mountain" title="Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain">Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain</a></i> (1983): Collaborated with filmmaker <a href="/wiki/Tsui_Hark" title="Tsui Hark">Tsui Hark</a> to combine elements of <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_action_cinema" title="Hong Kong action cinema">Hong Kong action cinema</a> with <a href="/wiki/Western_world" title="Western world">Western</a> special effects technology.<sup id="cite_ref-lines_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lines-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/RoboCop" title="RoboCop">RoboCop</a></i> (1987): Worked as an Supervisor with director <a href="/wiki/Paul_Verhoeven" title="Paul Verhoeven">Paul Verhoeven</a> and producer <a href="/wiki/Jon_Davison_(film_producer)" title="Jon Davison (film producer)">Jon Davison</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Theme_park_work">Theme park work</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Blalack&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Theme park work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Seafari</i> (1994). Praxis Film Works, Inc. produced motion control miniature photography for <a href="/wiki/Rhythm_and_Hues_Studios" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhythm and Hues Studios">Rhythm & Hues</a>´s mixed-media <a href="/wiki/Simulator_ride" title="Simulator ride">theme park ride</a>, with lighting by Visual Effects Oscar winner <a href="/wiki/Alex_Funke" title="Alex Funke">Alex Funke</a>.</li> <li><i>Aliens: Ride at the Speed of Fright</i> (1996). Praxis Film Works, Inc. provided motion control miniature photography for this <a href="/wiki/Iwerks_Entertainment" class="mw-redirect" title="Iwerks Entertainment">Iwerks Entertainment</a> location-based theme park ride, that explored visual themes from the movie <a href="/wiki/Alien_(franchise)" title="Alien (franchise)"><i>Aliens</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Akbar’s Adventure Tours – Busch Entertainment, Inc.</i> (1998). Blalack directed live-action sequences in <a href="/wiki/Marrakesh" title="Marrakesh">Marrakech, Morocco</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hollywood,_Los_Angeles" title="Hollywood, Los Angeles">Hollywood, California</a> with <a href="/wiki/Martin_Short" title="Martin Short">Martin Short</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eugene_Levy" title="Eugene Levy">Eugene Levy</a>. Praxis Film Works, Inc. produced the visual effects.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television_commercial_work">Television commercial work</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Blalack&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Television commercial work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Blalack directed hundreds of multi-layered mixed-media USA and International TV commercials, produced by Praxis Film Works, Inc., for such clients as <a href="/wiki/Cadillac" title="Cadillac">Cadillac</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chevrolet" title="Chevrolet">Chevrolet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coca-Cola" title="Coca-Cola">Coca-Cola</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dodge" title="Dodge">Dodge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hyundai_Group" title="Hyundai Group">Hyundai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kodak" title="Kodak">Kodak</a>, <a href="/wiki/Minolta" title="Minolta">Minolta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Panasonic" title="Panasonic">Panasonic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paper_Mate" title="Paper Mate">Papermate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philip_Morris_International" title="Philip Morris International">Philip Morris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Union_Carbide" title="Union Carbide">Union Carbide</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sharp_Corporation" title="Sharp Corporation">Sharp</a>, and <a href="/wiki/3M" title="3M">3M</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Independent_motion_pictures">Independent motion pictures</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Blalack&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Independent motion pictures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The visionary experience, as described by Aldous Huxley (<i>The Doors of Perception</i>, <i>Heaven and Hell</i>, and <i>Moksha</i>) and others, was a lifelong interest for Blalack. He discovered his passion for film-making when he attended experimental movie programs that played on the Pomona College campus from time to time. There he experienced the work of Patrick O’Neil, among others. Blalack would go on to study with O’Neil at CalArts. He came to regard film as a means and medium to open the doors of perception. This interest in the visionary experience underpinned his experimental film work. </p><p>Blalack was in post-production on <i>Daddy Dearest</i>, a Praxis Film Works, Inc. production of his experimental 8K motion picture, at the time of his death. The film remains unfinished. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ROBERT_BLALACK_ARTWORK.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/ROBERT_BLALACK_ARTWORK.png/220px-ROBERT_BLALACK_ARTWORK.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="123" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/ROBERT_BLALACK_ARTWORK.png/330px-ROBERT_BLALACK_ARTWORK.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/ROBERT_BLALACK_ARTWORK.png/440px-ROBERT_BLALACK_ARTWORK.png 2x" data-file-width="506" data-file-height="284" /></a><figcaption>One of Blalack's Living Paintings</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Artworks">Artworks</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Blalack&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Artworks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Inspired by his life-long interest in the visionary experience, Blalack created a series of "Living Paintings". These unique 10-hour, 4K, and 8K <a href="/wiki/Ultra-high-definition_television" title="Ultra-high-definition television">UHDTV</a> creations were synthesized from tens of thousands of photographs he took in the Jain temples of Northern <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, the Hindu temples of <a href="/wiki/Angkor_Wat" title="Angkor Wat">Angkor Wat</a>, the Buddhist temples of <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a> and <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>, and the Catholic cathedrals of France between 2008 and 2017. Each artwork draws the viewer into a world beyond everyday experience, a world of waking dreams. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Attribution_needed" title="Wikipedia:Attribution needed"><span title="This sentence may contain perspectives and opinions without stating whose they are. (October 2023)">attribution needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Multi-media_conversations">Multi-media conversations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Blalack&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Multi-media conversations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Blalack gave multi-media talks at more than 70 universities, film schools, VFX schools, art schools, and film festivals in <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>, <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>, <a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a>, and France at the <a href="/wiki/Cin%C3%A9math%C3%A8que_Fran%C3%A7aise" class="mw-redirect" title="Cinémathèque Française">Cinematheque Francaise</a>. 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(1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Stears" title="John Stears">John Stears</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Thunderball_(film)" title="Thunderball (film)">Thunderball</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Art_Cruickshank" title="Art Cruickshank">Art Cruickshank</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Fantastic_Voyage" title="Fantastic Voyage">Fantastic Voyage</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/L._B._Abbott" title="L. B. Abbott">L. B. Abbott</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Dolittle_(1967_film)" title="Doctor Dolittle (1967 film)">Doctor Dolittle</a></i> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick" title="Stanley Kubrick">Stanley Kubrick</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey" title="2001: A Space Odyssey">2001: A Space Odyssey</a></i> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robie_Robertson" title="Robie Robertson">Robie Robertson</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Marooned_(1969_film)" title="Marooned (1969 film)">Marooned</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._D._Flowers" title="A. D. Flowers">A. D. Flowers</a> and <a href="/wiki/L._B._Abbott" title="L. B. Abbott">L. B. Abbott</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Tora!_Tora!_Tora!" title="Tora! Tora! Tora!">Tora! Tora! Tora!</a></i> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Maley" title="Alan Maley">Alan Maley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eustace_Lycett" title="Eustace Lycett">Eustace Lycett</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Danny_Lee_(special_effects_artist)" title="Danny Lee (special effects artist)">Danny Lee</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Bedknobs_and_Broomsticks" title="Bedknobs and Broomsticks">Bedknobs and Broomsticks</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/L._B._Abbott" title="L. B. Abbott">L. B. Abbott</a> and <a href="/wiki/A._D._Flowers" title="A. D. Flowers">A. D. Flowers</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Poseidon_Adventure_(1972_film)" title="The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)">The Poseidon Adventure</a></i> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Brendel" title="Frank Brendel">Frank Brendel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Glen_Robinson_(visual_effects)" title="Glen Robinson (visual effects)">Glen Robinson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Albert_Whitlock" title="Albert Whitlock">Albert Whitlock</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Earthquake_(1974_film)" title="Earthquake (1974 film)">Earthquake</a></i> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Whitlock" title="Albert Whitlock">Albert Whitlock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Glen_Robinson_(visual_effects)" title="Glen Robinson (visual effects)">Glen Robinson</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hindenburg_(film)" title="The Hindenburg (film)">The Hindenburg</a></i> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlo_Rambaldi" title="Carlo Rambaldi">Carlo Rambaldi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Glen_Robinson_(visual_effects)" title="Glen Robinson (visual effects)">Glen Robinson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Frank_Van_der_Veer" title="Frank Van der Veer">Frank Van der Veer</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/King_Kong_(1976_film)" title="King Kong (1976 film)">King Kong</a></i> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Stears" title="John Stears">John Stears</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Dykstra" title="John Dykstra">John Dykstra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Edlund" title="Richard Edlund">Richard Edlund</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grant_McCune" title="Grant McCune">Grant McCune</a>, and <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Robert Blalack</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_(film)" title="Star Wars (film)">Star Wars</a></i> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Les_Bowie" title="Les Bowie">Les Bowie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colin_Chilvers" title="Colin Chilvers">Colin Chilvers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Denys_Coop" title="Denys Coop">Denys Coop</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roy_Field" title="Roy Field">Roy Field</a>, <a href="/wiki/Derek_Meddings" title="Derek Meddings">Derek Meddings</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Zoran_Perisic_(visual_effects_artist)" title="Zoran Perisic (visual effects artist)">Zoran Perisic</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Superman_(1978_film)" title="Superman (1978 film)">Superman</a></i> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._R._Giger" title="H. R. Giger">H. R. Giger</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carlo_Rambaldi" title="Carlo Rambaldi">Carlo Rambaldi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brian_Johnson_(special_effects_artist)" title="Brian Johnson (special effects artist)">Brian Johnson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nick_Allder" title="Nick Allder">Nick Allder</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Ayling" title="Dennis Ayling">Dennis Ayling</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Alien_(film)" title="Alien (film)">Alien</a></i> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Johnson_(special_effects_artist)" title="Brian Johnson (special effects artist)">Brian Johnson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Edlund" title="Richard Edlund">Richard Edlund</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Muren" title="Dennis Muren">Dennis Muren</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Nicholson" title="Bruce Nicholson">Bruce Nicholson</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Empire_Strikes_Back" title="The Empire Strikes Back">The Empire Strikes Back</a></i> (1980)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">1981–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Edlund" title="Richard Edlund">Richard Edlund</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kit_West" title="Kit West">Kit West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Nicholson" title="Bruce Nicholson">Bruce Nicholson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Joe_Johnston" title="Joe Johnston">Joe Johnston</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark" title="Raiders of the Lost Ark">Raiders of the Lost Ark</a></i> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlo_Rambaldi" title="Carlo Rambaldi">Carlo Rambaldi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Muren" title="Dennis Muren">Dennis Muren</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_F._Smith" title="Kenneth F. Smith">Kenneth F. Smith</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial" title="E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial">E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial</a></i> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Edlund" title="Richard Edlund">Richard Edlund</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Muren" title="Dennis Muren">Dennis Muren</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ken_Ralston" title="Ken Ralston">Ken Ralston</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Phil_Tippett" title="Phil Tippett">Phil Tippett</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Return_of_the_Jedi" title="Return of the Jedi">Return of the Jedi</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Muren" title="Dennis Muren">Dennis Muren</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_J._McAlister" title="Michael J. McAlister">Michael J. McAlister</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lorne_Peterson" title="Lorne Peterson">Lorne Peterson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/George_Gibbs_(special_effects_artist)" title="George Gibbs (special effects artist)">George Gibbs</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Temple_of_Doom" title="Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom">Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom</a></i> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Ralston" title="Ken Ralston">Ken Ralston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ralph_McQuarrie" title="Ralph McQuarrie">Ralph McQuarrie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scott_Farrar" title="Scott Farrar">Scott Farrar</a>, and <a href="/wiki/David_Berry_(special_effects_artist)" title="David Berry (special effects artist)">David Berry</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Cocoon_(film)" title="Cocoon (film)">Cocoon</a></i> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Skotak" title="Robert Skotak">Robert Skotak</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stan_Winston" title="Stan Winston">Stan Winston</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Richardson_(special_effects_designer)" title="John Richardson (special effects designer)">John Richardson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Suzanne_M._Benson" title="Suzanne M. Benson">Suzanne M. Benson</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Aliens_(film)" title="Aliens (film)">Aliens</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Muren" title="Dennis Muren">Dennis Muren</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bill_George_(visual_effects_supervisor)" title="Bill George (visual effects supervisor)">Bill George</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harley_Jessup" title="Harley Jessup">Harley Jessup</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_F._Smith" title="Kenneth F. Smith">Kenneth F. Smith</a> - <i><a href="/wiki/Innerspace" title="Innerspace">Innerspace</a></i> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Ralston" title="Ken Ralston">Ken Ralston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Williams_(animator)" title="Richard Williams (animator)">Richard Williams</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Jones_(visual_effects_artist)" title="Edward Jones (visual effects artist)">Edward Jones</a>, and <a href="/wiki/George_Gibbs_(special_effects_artist)" title="George Gibbs (special effects artist)">George Gibbs</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Who_Framed_Roger_Rabbit" title="Who Framed Roger Rabbit">Who Framed Roger Rabbit</a></i> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bruno_(special_effects)" title="John Bruno (special effects)">John Bruno</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Muren" title="Dennis Muren">Dennis Muren</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hoyt_Yeatman" title="Hoyt Yeatman">Hoyt Yeatman</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Skotak" title="Dennis Skotak">Dennis Skotak</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Abyss" title="The Abyss">The Abyss</a></i> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Brevig" title="Eric Brevig">Eric Brevig</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rob_Bottin" title="Rob Bottin">Rob Bottin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tim_McGovern" title="Tim McGovern">Tim McGovern</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Alex_Funke" title="Alex Funke">Alex Funke</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Total_Recall_(1990_film)" title="Total Recall (1990 film)">Total Recall</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Muren" title="Dennis Muren">Dennis Muren</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stan_Winston" title="Stan Winston">Stan Winston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gene_Warren_Jr." title="Gene Warren Jr.">Gene Warren Jr.</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Skotak" title="Robert Skotak">Robert Skotak</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day" title="Terminator 2: Judgment Day">Terminator 2: Judgment Day</a></i> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Ralston" title="Ken Ralston">Ken Ralston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doug_Chiang" title="Doug Chiang">Doug Chiang</a>, <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Smythe" title="Douglas Smythe">Douglas Smythe</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tom_Woodruff_Jr." title="Tom Woodruff Jr.">Tom Woodruff Jr.</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Death_Becomes_Her" title="Death Becomes Her">Death Becomes Her</a></i> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Muren" title="Dennis Muren">Dennis Muren</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stan_Winston" title="Stan Winston">Stan Winston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Phil_Tippett" title="Phil Tippett">Phil Tippett</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Lantieri" title="Michael Lantieri">Michael Lantieri</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(film)" title="Jurassic Park (film)">Jurassic Park</a></i> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Ralston" title="Ken Ralston">Ken Ralston</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Murphy_(special_effects_artist)" title="George Murphy (special effects artist)">George Murphy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Rosenbaum" title="Stephen Rosenbaum">Stephen Rosenbaum</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Allen_Hall_(special_effects_artist)" title="Allen Hall (special effects artist)">Allen Hall</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Forrest_Gump" title="Forrest Gump">Forrest Gump</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_E._Anderson" title="Scott E. Anderson">Scott E. Anderson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Gibson_(special_effects_artist)" title="Charles Gibson (special effects artist)">Charles Gibson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neal_Scanlan" title="Neal Scanlan">Neal Scanlan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/John_Cox_(special_effects_artist)" title="John Cox (special effects artist)">John Cox</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Babe_(film)" title="Babe (film)">Babe</a></i> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volker_Engel" title="Volker Engel">Volker Engel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Smith_(special_effects_artist)" title="Douglas Smith (special effects artist)">Douglas Smith</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clay_Pinney" title="Clay Pinney">Clay Pinney</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Joe_Viskocil" title="Joe Viskocil">Joe Viskocil</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Independence_Day_(1996_film)" title="Independence Day (1996 film)">Independence Day</a></i> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Legato" title="Robert Legato">Robert Legato</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Lasoff" title="Mark Lasoff">Mark Lasoff</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_L._Fisher" title="Thomas L. Fisher">Thomas L. Fisher</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Kanfer" title="Michael Kanfer">Michael Kanfer</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Titanic_(1997_film)" title="Titanic (1997 film)">Titanic</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joel_Hynek" title="Joel Hynek">Joel Hynek</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Brooks_(special_effects_artist)" title="Nicholas Brooks (special effects artist)">Nicholas Brooks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Robertson_(visual_effects_artist)" title="Stuart Robertson (visual effects artist)">Stuart Robertson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Mack_(visual_effects_artist)" title="Kevin Mack (visual effects artist)">Kevin Mack</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/What_Dreams_May_Come_(film)" title="What Dreams May Come (film)">What Dreams May Come</a></i> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Gaeta" title="John Gaeta">John Gaeta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Janek_Sirrs" title="Janek Sirrs">Janek Sirrs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Courtley" title="Steve Courtley">Steve Courtley</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jon_Thum" title="Jon Thum">Jon Thum</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Matrix" title="The Matrix">The Matrix</a></i> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Nelson_(visual_effects_artist)" title="John Nelson (visual effects artist)">John Nelson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neil_Corbould" title="Neil Corbould">Neil Corbould</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tim_Burke_(visual_effects_supervisor)" title="Tim Burke (visual effects supervisor)">Tim Burke</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rob_Harvey_(special_effects_artist)" title="Rob Harvey (special effects artist)">Rob Harvey</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Gladiator_(2000_film)" title="Gladiator (2000 film)">Gladiator</a></i> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">2001–2020</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Rygiel" title="Jim Rygiel">Jim Rygiel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Randall_William_Cook" title="Randall William Cook">Randall William Cook</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Taylor_(filmmaker)" title="Richard Taylor (filmmaker)">Richard Taylor</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mark_Stetson" title="Mark Stetson">Mark Stetson</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring" title="The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring">The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring</a></i> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Rygiel" title="Jim Rygiel">Jim Rygiel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Letteri" title="Joe Letteri">Joe Letteri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Randall_William_Cook" title="Randall William Cook">Randall William Cook</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Alex_Funke" title="Alex Funke">Alex Funke</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Two_Towers" title="The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers">The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers</a></i> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Rygiel" title="Jim Rygiel">Jim Rygiel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Letteri" title="Joe Letteri">Joe Letteri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Randall_William_Cook" title="Randall William Cook">Randall William Cook</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Alex_Funke" title="Alex Funke">Alex Funke</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Return_of_the_King" title="The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King">The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King</a></i> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Dykstra" title="John Dykstra">John Dykstra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scott_Stokdyk" title="Scott Stokdyk">Scott Stokdyk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anthony_LaMolinara" title="Anthony LaMolinara">Anthony LaMolinara</a>, and <a href="/wiki/John_Frazier" title="John Frazier">John Frazier</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Spider-Man_2" title="Spider-Man 2">Spider-Man 2</a></i> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Letteri" title="Joe Letteri">Joe Letteri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brian_Van%27t_Hul" title="Brian Van't Hul">Brian Van't Hul</a>, <a href="/wiki/Christian_Rivers" title="Christian Rivers">Christian Rivers</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Taylor_(filmmaker)" title="Richard Taylor (filmmaker)">Richard Taylor</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/King_Kong_(2005_film)" title="King Kong (2005 film)">King Kong</a></i> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Knoll" title="John Knoll">John Knoll</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hal_Hickel" title="Hal Hickel">Hal Hickel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Gibson_(special_effects_artist)" title="Charles Gibson (special effects artist)">Charles Gibson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Allen_Hall_(special_effects_artist)" title="Allen Hall (special effects artist)">Allen Hall</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_Dead_Man%27s_Chest" title="Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest">Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest</a></i> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_L._Fink" title="Michael L. Fink">Michael L. Fink</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Westenhofer" title="Bill Westenhofer">Bill Westenhofer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ben_Morris_(special_effects_artist)" title="Ben Morris (special effects artist)">Ben Morris</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Wood_(special_effects_artist)" title="Trevor Wood (special effects artist)">Trevor Wood</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Compass_(film)" title="The Golden Compass (film)">The Golden Compass</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Barba" title="Eric Barba">Eric Barba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Preeg" title="Steve Preeg">Steve Preeg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Burt_Dalton" title="Burt Dalton">Burt Dalton</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Craig_Barron" title="Craig Barron">Craig Barron</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Curious_Case_of_Benjamin_Button_(film)" title="The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)">The Curious Case of Benjamin Button</a> </i> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Letteri" title="Joe Letteri">Joe Letteri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Rosenbaum" title="Stephen Rosenbaum">Stephen Rosenbaum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Baneham" title="Richard Baneham">Richard Baneham</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Andrew_R._Jones" title="Andrew R. Jones">Andrew R. Jones</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film)" title="Avatar (2009 film)">Avatar</a></i> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Franklin_(visual_effects_supervisor)" title="Paul Franklin (visual effects supervisor)">Paul Franklin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chris_Corbould" title="Chris Corbould">Chris Corbould</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Lockley" title="Andrew Lockley">Andrew Lockley</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Bebb" title="Peter Bebb">Peter Bebb</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Inception" title="Inception">Inception</a></i> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Legato" title="Robert Legato">Robert Legato</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joss_Williams" title="Joss Williams">Joss Williams</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ben_Grossmann" title="Ben Grossmann">Ben Grossmann</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Alex_Henning" title="Alex Henning">Alex Henning</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Hugo_(film)" title="Hugo (film)">Hugo</a></i> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Westenhofer" title="Bill Westenhofer">Bill Westenhofer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guillaume_Rocheron" title="Guillaume Rocheron">Guillaume Rocheron</a>, <a href="/wiki/Erik-Jan_de_Boer" title="Erik-Jan de Boer">Erik-Jan de Boer</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Donald_R._Elliott" title="Donald R. Elliott">Donald R. Elliott</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Life_of_Pi_(film)" title="Life of Pi (film)">Life of Pi</a></i> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Webber" title="Tim Webber">Tim Webber</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chris_Lawrence_(visual_effects)" title="Chris Lawrence (visual effects)">Chris Lawrence</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dave_Shirk" title="Dave Shirk">Dave Shirk</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Neil_Corbould" title="Neil Corbould">Neil Corbould</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Gravity_(2013_film)" title="Gravity (2013 film)">Gravity</a></i> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Franklin_(visual_effects_supervisor)" title="Paul Franklin (visual effects supervisor)">Paul Franklin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Lockley" title="Andrew Lockley">Andrew Lockley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ian_Hunter_(visual_effects_supervisor)" title="Ian Hunter (visual effects supervisor)">Ian Hunter</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Scott_R._Fisher" title="Scott R. Fisher">Scott R. Fisher</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Interstellar_(film)" title="Interstellar (film)">Interstellar</a></i> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Williams_Ardington" title="Mark Williams Ardington">Mark Williams Ardington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sara_Bennett" title="Sara Bennett">Sara Bennett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Norris_(visual_effects)" title="Paul Norris (visual effects)">Paul Norris</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Whitehurst" title="Andrew Whitehurst">Andrew Whitehurst</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Ex_Machina_(film)" title="Ex Machina (film)">Ex Machina</a></i> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Legato" title="Robert Legato">Robert Legato</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adam_Valdez" title="Adam Valdez">Adam Valdez</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andrew_R._Jones" title="Andrew R. Jones">Andrew R. Jones</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dan_Lemmon" title="Dan Lemmon">Dan Lemmon</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Jungle_Book_(2016_film)" title="The Jungle Book (2016 film)">The Jungle Book</a></i> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Nelson_(visual_effects_artist)" title="John Nelson (visual effects artist)">John Nelson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gerd_Nefzer" title="Gerd Nefzer">Gerd Nefzer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Lambert_(special_effects_artist)" title="Paul Lambert (special effects artist)">Paul Lambert</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Richard_R._Hoover" title="Richard R. Hoover">Richard R. Hoover</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/Blade_Runner_2049" title="Blade Runner 2049">Blade Runner 2049</a></i> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Lambert_(special_effects_artist)" title="Paul Lambert (special effects artist)">Paul Lambert</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ian_Hunter_(visual_effects_supervisor)" title="Ian Hunter (visual effects supervisor)">Ian Hunter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tristan_Myles" title="Tristan Myles">Tristan Myles</a>, and <a href="/wiki/J._D._Schwalm" title="J. D. Schwalm">J. D. Schwalm</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/First_Man_(film)" title="First Man (film)">First Man</a></i> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guillaume_Rocheron" title="Guillaume Rocheron">Guillaume Rocheron</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greg_Butler_(visual_effects_supervisor)" title="Greg Butler (visual effects supervisor)">Greg Butler</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dominic_Tuohy" title="Dominic Tuohy">Dominic Tuohy</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/1917_(2019_film)" title="1917 (2019 film)">1917</a></i> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_(visual_effects)" title="Andrew Jackson (visual effects)">Andrew Jackson</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Lee_(visual_effects_artist)" title="David Lee (visual effects artist)">David Lee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Lockley" title="Andrew Lockley">Andrew Lockley</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Scott_R._Fisher" title="Scott R. Fisher">Scott R. 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