Ken Ralston
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Biografie
Kenneth Ralston (born 1954) is an American visual effects artist, visual effects supervisor and Creative Head at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Ralston began his career at the commercial animation and visual effects company Cascade Pictures in Hollywood, where he worked on over 150 advertising campaigns in the early 1970s. In 1976, Dennis Muren hired him at Industrial Light & Magic to help George Lucas create the effects for Star Wars. He remained at ILM for 20 years before joining Sony Pictures Imageworks as president. Ralston is best known for his work in the films of Robert Zemeckis. Ralston has won five Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects, including a Special Achievement Academy Award for the visual effects in Return of the Jedi (1983), and regular awards for his work on Cocoon (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Death Becomes Her (1992) and Forrest Gump (1994). He was nominated three more times for Dragonslayer (1981), Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Alice in Wonderland (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Ralston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmografie
- LIGHT & MAGIC · Selbst
- Inside Star Trek - Hinter den Kulissen des Enterprise-Universums · Selbst
- Alice im Wunderland: Hinter den Spiegeln · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Star Wars: Greatest Moments · Selbst
- Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan · Selbst
- Men in Black 3 · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland · Selbst
- Alice im Wunderland · Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
- Die Legende von Beowulf · Visual Effects Design Consultant
- Der Polarexpress · VFX Supervisor
- When Star Wars Ruled the World · Selbst
- Men in Black II · Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
- America's Sweethearts · Visual Effects Coordinator
- Cast Away - Verschollen · Visual Effects Supervisor
- From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic · Selbst
- Contact · Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
- Phenomenon - Das Unmögliche wird wahr · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Jumanji · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Hallo, Mr. President · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump · Selbst, Dank
- Forrest Gump · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Der Tod steht ihr gut · Second Unit Director, Visual Effects Supervisor
- Rocketeer · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Rocketeer: Excitement in the Air · Selbst
- Die Geheimnisse der Back to the Future-Trilogie · Selbst
- Zurück in die Zukunft III · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Akira Kurosawas Träume · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Zurück in die Zukunft II · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town · Selbst
- Falsches Spiel mit Roger Rabbit · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Auf der Suche nach dem goldenen Kind · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Star Trek IV - Zurück in die Gegenwart · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Cocoon · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Star Trek III - Auf der Suche nach Mr. Spock · Visual Effects Supervisor
- Star Trek II - Der Zorn des Khan · Visual Effects Supervisor