Colin Trevorrow is an American filmmaker. He is also a character in the S/F canon universe; on the Masrani Global Corporation website backdoor, he is credited with “Director, Safety (Not Guaranteed).” This is a reference to his debut film in real life, the 2012 comedy Safety Not Guaranteed.
Derek Connolly (1976 – present) is an American film producer and screenwriter. He also exists in the S/F canon universe, being credited on the Masrani Global Corporation website backdoor as “Employee of the Month” in June 2015.
Gregory S. Paul (born December 24, 1954) is an author, researcher, and paleontological illustrator. Paul has been restoring dinosaurs via illustration for over thirty years. In the 1970’s, Paul, working with paleontologists and doing his own research, helped to pioneer the look of dinosaurs. He was among the first artists to depict dinosaurs as warm-blooded and active. Paul also was one of the first artist to add feathers to dinosaurs, albeit mainly on smaller animals. During the years through 1977 to 1984, Paul worked with renowned paleontologist Robert T. Bakker. Since the 1970’s Paul’s work has appeared in over one hundred books and documentaries. He is also credited with the naming of at least twelve dinosaurs. In the early 1990’s Paul worked as a consultant for both the…
Christopher Swift is a Special Effects Character Creator, Makeup Effects Artist, Supervisor for Legacy Effects, and Teacher at Stan Winston School of Character Arts. Swift was born in Las Vegas, Nevada and was a self-taught artist. After creating the special effects for his own short films, Swift chose it for his professional career. Swift began a career at Stan Winston Studio with his first project there being the 1991 film, Termminator 2: Judgment Day. At Stan Winston Studio, Swift became a Key Artist and character designer. He continues to work at Legacy Effects, formerly Stan Winston Studio. Swift contributed to the creation of the animatronic Velociraptors in the first Jurassic Park film and other animatronics for The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III. Selected Filmography Child’s…
John Rosengrant is an Academy Award nominated Character Creator and teacher at Stan Winston School of Character Arts as well as a Co-Founder of Legacy Effects. Rosengrant majored in Fine Arts at Louisiana State University and moved to Los Angeles in 1983 to pursue a career in special effects. In Los Angeles, he joined Stan Winston Studio where he worked on film projects such as the Terminator franchise, Aliens, and Predator. Rosengrant was a special effects supervisor for the Jurassic Park films and specifically worked on the Male Tyrannosaurus animatronic in both the Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III. After the passing of Stan Winston in 2008, Rosengrant, along with Shane Mahan, Lindsay Macgowan, and Alan Scott, founded Legacy Effects. Selected Filmography The Terminator (1984) Aliens…
John Michael Crichton, MD (October 23, 1942-November 4, 2008) was an American physician, screenwriter, director and best-selling author who contributed extensively to the science fiction, medical fiction and thriller genres. His popular books–which have sold over 200 million copies–have been adapted into feature films. Those include The Andromeda Strain (twice), The Terminal Man, The 13th Warrior (Eaters of the Dead), The Carey Treatment (A Case of Need), Disclosure, Rising Sun, The First Great Train Robbery, Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues, Congo, Sphere, Timeline, Jurassic Park and The Lost World. In 1994 he became the first author in history to achieve a #1 ranked novel, television series and film simultaneously (Disclosure, ER and Jurassic Park respectively). His other literary works apart from those listed above include Airframe, Travels,…
Gary Rydstrom is a seven-time Academy Award winning sound designer. Rydstrom was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1959. In 1981, he graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Two years later, he was hired at Skywalker Sound where he worked with Ben Burtt, the sound designer for both the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises. For his first project, Rydstrom was a sound technician for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. In 1991, Rydstrom won an Academy Award for his original sound effects for the film, Terminator 2: Judgment Day. In 1993, Rydstrom was tasked to create sounds for the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. He and his team recorded numerous types of animals and mixed the sounds together in order to create realistic…
Shane Mahan is an Academy Award nominated makeup and special effects artist at Legacy Effects, formerly Stan Winston Studio. He was born in Greenville, Michigan. In 1981, after graduating from the local high school, Mahan moved to Hollywood during the makeup and character effects boom of the time. Mahan began working at various effects studios and eventually was hired on at Stan Winston Studio. His first job was key sculptor for the 1984 film, The Terminator. This began a lifelong relationship with the top filmmakers in Hollywood. From here, Mahan worked on numerous other film projects. Mahan was also co-producer of HBO’s Creature Features where he also designed and coordinated creature effects. After working for at Stan Winston Studio for over twenty years, Mahan, along with Alan Scott,…
Rick Galinson is an Animatronic Effects Supervisor and Teacher at Stan Winston School of Character Arts. Galinson was raised in La Jolla, California and eventually graduated from the Universtiy of Southern California with a B.S. in BioMedical Engineering. Shortly after graduating in 1990, he had his first FX job with Kevin Yagher and worked on the films Child’s Play 3 and Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey. After working with Yagher, Galinson moved onto Stan Winston Studio where he worked on the film Jurassic Park. His first major animatronic was the Dilophosaurus, lovingly referred to as ‘the Spitter,’ in the film. Selected Filmography Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) Child’s Play 3 (1991) Batman Returns (1992) Jurassic Park (1993) Men In Black (1997) Snakes on a Plane (2006) Aliens…
Andy Shoneberg is a two-time Emmy Award winning special-effects makeup artist, painter, FX sculpter and teacher at Stan Winston School of Character Arts. Shoneberg was born July 17, 1956 in Casper, Wyoming and grew up and in Billings, Montana. At the age of fourteen, Shoneberg began carving foam body parts in his parents’ basement. He studied art in high school and eventually attended Montana State University Billings where was part of the art program. Shoneberg eventually received an invitation to Los Angeles from legendary makeup artist, Dick Smith to attend his course. His first job was creating the feet for the dwarfs in the 1987 film, Snow White. He has since worked at numerous studios including Stan Winston Studio, Rick Baker’s Cinovation, and KNB. Shoneberg has won two…
Shannon Shea was a Character Creation Supervisor at Stan Winston Studios and is currently a teacher at Stan Winston School of Character Arts. He has worked on numerous films in the past and was a puppeteer for the sick Triceratops animatronic in the first Jurassic Park film. Biography Shannon Shea grew up in New Orleans and, as a child, was heavily influenced by the character creation work of Willis O’Brien and Ray Harryhausen. Shea attended CalArts and worked with the experimental character animation program. However, this did not last and he left school in order to pursue a career in special makeup effects. He was hired on at Stan Winston Studios in the mid-1980s and first contributed to the studio during the production of Aliens. He has since…
Joey Orosco is a key artist for Legacy Effects, formerly Stan Winston Studios. He is well known for his work in the Jurassic Park franchise. His work includes painting the sick Triceratops animatronic, sculpting the main body of the Tyrannosaur animatronic from the first film, and also sculpting the Spinosaurus from Jurassic Park III. Selected Filmography Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1991) Jurassic Park (1993) Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) Congo (1995) The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) The Sixth Sense (1999) A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) Jurassic Park III (2001) Alien vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) Avatar (2009) Predators (2010)
Jaws), 1980s (E.T. The Extra Terrestrial) and 1990s (Jurassic Park). He is also critically acclaimed as he has directed several Academy Award nominees for best picture, winning once in 1993 for Schindler’s List–a film for which he also won his first of two Oscars for best director (the other being Saving Private Ryan). He is known for being a part of the directorial generation that revived Hollywood and is also considered the father of the summer blockbuster thanks to Jaws. He was a recipient of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, a special Academy Award, in 1987. He has had a long association with Universal Studios and Dreamworks. Biography Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to a Jewish family. His mother, Leah Adler (née Posner, 1920– ), was a restaurateur and concert pianist,…
Janusz Kaminski (June 27, 1959) is an award-winning Polish cinematographer closely associated with American director Steven Spielberg. He rose to prominence in 1993 after he received an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Spielberg’s historical bio-drama Schindler’s List. He subsequently has worked on all of Spielberg’s live-action films. Kaminski won his second and–to date–final Academy Award for his work on Saving Private Ryan, again for cinematography. Janusz has directed three films: Lost Souls (2000), Hania (2007) and American Dream (2011). Biography Kamiński was born in Ziębice, Poland to Jadwiga Celner–his mother–and Marian Kaminski–his father–on June 27, 1959. He emigrated from Poland in 1981 at age 21 to the United States to escape governmental suppression. He attended Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois from 1982 to 1987 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, taking up film-making as…
Dr. John “Jack” R. Horner (born June 15th, 1946) is an American paleontologist, renowned the world over for his innovative dinosaur research, spanning topics as diverse as hadrosaur family nurturing habits, whether Tyrannosaurus rex was a hunter or scavenger, and even the possibility of re-creating non-avian dinosaurs by modifying the genetics of the contemporary chicken. Famous for his discovery of Maiasaura and extensive studies of the so-called “Egg Mountain” in Montana, Dr. Horner is the Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies. He was also a paleontological consultant for all three of the Jurassic Park films, as well as the inspiration for the character of Dr. Alan Grant in both the film and novel. In 2001, Jack Horner is mentioned by Dr. Ellie Sattler as she explains to…
