John Dykstra
Personal Info
Known For Visual Effects
Gender Male
Birthday 1947-06-03 (77 years old)
Place of Birth Long Beach, California, USA
Also Known As John Charles Dykstra, John C. Dykstra
John Dykstra
Biography
John Charles Dykstra, A.S.C. (/ˈdaɪkstrə/; born June 3, 1947) is an American special effects artist, a pioneer in developing computers in filmmaking and a recipient of three Academy Awards, among many other awards and prizes. He was one of the original employees of Industrial Light & Magic, the special effects and computer graphics division of Lucasfilm. He is well known as the special effects lead on the original Star Wars, helping bring the original visuals for lightsabers, space battles between X-wings and TIE fighters, and Force powers to the screen. He also led special effects on many other movies, including Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Stuart Little, X-Men: First Class, Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Dykstra, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Visual Effects
as Visual Effects Designer
as Visual Effects Supervisor
as Visual Effects Supervisor
as Visual Effects Designer
as Visual Effects Designer
as Visual Effects Supervisor
as Visual Effects Designer
as Visual Effects Designer
as Visual Effects Supervisor
as Visual Effects Designer
as Visual Effects Supervisor
as Visual Effects Designer
as Visual Effects Supervisor
as Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
as Visual Effects
as Visual Effects Supervisor
as Visual Effects Supervisor
as Visual Effects Producer
as Visual Effects
as Special Effects Supervisor
as Visual Effects
Actor
as Self - Visual Effects Supervisor
as Self
as Self
as Self - Visual Effects Supervisor
as Himself
as Self
Director
as Second Unit Director
as Second Unit Director
Crew
as Special Effects
Producer
as Producer