VFX Art Director: Jurassic Park, Flintstones, A New Hope 97. Concept Designer: Hellboy 1&2, Blade 2&3, Avatar, Pacific Rim, Battle LA. Professor @ VCU. Artist.

Midlothian, VA
Joined January 2012
Greetings, friends. I’ve been on a sizable social media hiatus—hope you’re all well. Enjoy a robot. More renders in the pipe.
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As we wait for the results to come in, here's a mobile robot brain container. @Dougblot @NeillBlomkamp @RealGDT
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First view of a new series. Insect One (Synthetic). @Dougblot
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Lecturing my class today about drive and creativity. When this slide came up, I announced, “Today is Guillermo’s birthday!” They all wished you a fantastic day! HBD, my amazing friend. @RealGDT
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A month ago, I spent an enjoyable evening in conversation with the thoughtful Jamie Benning. We covered a range of topics including Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Avatar, and my move from Hollywood into education. Enjoy. @RealGDT @Dougblot @artofmmignola
Episode 111 is live! I sit down with @TyRuben Ellingson, VFX Art Director and educator, to talk early influences, his work at @ILMVFX, collaborating with Spielberg, Lucas, and Cameron, and the lessons he's learnt along the way. filmumentaries.com/2024/09/e…
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From Blade Trinity -- Electronic Pistol with micro DVD recorder. That was a high-tech concept in 2003. Time moves very fast.
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This photo of me was taken in December of 2022. I like it, so added some Kaiju (怪獣) sparkle. @Dougblot
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Can’t wait.
50 days shooting “F” almost halfway
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Here's another view of the Massive welding machine Guillermo and I developed for Pacific Rim. @RealGDT
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This was such a fun design to develop alongside Guillermo del Toro, regardless of whether it made it into the final film. Massive welding machine. @RealGDT @Dougblot
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TyRuben Ellingson retweeted
I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours
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Avatar - These were taken the first day we reviewed the full size AMP suit full scale cockpit mockup . This was an important step for Jim to asses the scale and views out and in through the windshield. The mockup was built at Legacy VFX.
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Jurassic Park - Playing a gallimimus in the ILM stampede test - "method acting” - I gave it my all. @ILMVFX #JurassicPark30
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A story from the making of the film that keeps coming up is how I fell and broke my arm while pretending to be a gallimimus — and subsequently — one of the stampeding dinosaurs experiences the same fate.
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