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Amy’s career in theater and film has spanned more than 30 years, from Broadway to San Francisco Opera to George Lucas’s Industrial Light & Magic. She has worked as a Stage Technician (Lighting, Props, Grip, Costumes), Stage & Production Manager, Special Effects Pyrotechnician and Model Maker.
Some of her film credits include: Terminator 2, Star Trek VI, Star Trek Generations, Hook, Casper and The Rocketeer. (She was on the Pyro crew which blew up the zeppelin and the Hollywoodland sign and created a lot of other flame effects used in the film.)
Credits continue:
Negative Cutter BUENA VISTA NEGATIVE CUTTING
Color Timer BOB KAISER
Titles & Opticals PACIFIC TITLE
Main Title Graphics by SAXON / ROSS FILM DESIGN, INC.
DGA Trainee DAVID SPITZER
Production Assistants HENRY H. HAMMOND, KRISTINA H. JONES, DIANA VILKAITIS, DAVID DALE
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS by
Visual Effects Supervisor KEN RALSTON
Visual Effects Producer PATRICIA BLAU
Visual Effects Art Director JOHN BELL
Optical Photography Supervisors JOHN ELLIS, BRUCE VECCHITTO
Director of Photography PATRICK TURNER
Visual Effects Editor TIM EATON
Animation Supervisor WES FORD TAKAHASHI
Rotoscope Supervisor TOM BERTINO
Supervising Modelmaker STEVE GAWLEY
Efx Camera Matte Painting Supervisor BRUCE WALTERS
Executive in Charge of Production JIM MORRIS
Executive in Charge of Post Production ED L. JONES
General Manager SCOTT ROSS
Project Manager ED HIRSH
Visual Effects Coordinators PENNY RUNGE, ANNE CALANCHINI
Camera Operators PETER DAULTON, PAT SWEENEY, TERRY CHOSTNER
Stop Motion Animator TOM ST. AMAND
Camera Assistants VANCE PIPER, KATE O’NEILL, DAVID HANKS
Optical Camera Operators KENNETH SMITH, JAMES LIM, JEFF DORAN, JON ALEXANDER, KEITH JOHNSON, PAT REPOLA
Computer Graph., Digital Supervisors SANDRA R. FORD, STUART ROBERTSON
Film Scanner Operators JOSHUA PINES, RANDALL K. BEAN, JEFF B. LIGHT
Optical Line-Up TOM ROSSETER, PEG HUNTER, LORI NELSON, DAVID KARPMAN, JENNIFER LEE, JOHN WHISNANT
Chief Matte Painter MARK SULLIVAN
Animators CRISPY GREEN, ANTHONY STACCHI, CHARLIE CANFIELD, GORDON BAKER, LORING DOYLE, KEVIN COFFEY
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Amy’s career in theater and film has spanned more than 30 years, from Broadway to San Francisco Opera to George Lucas’s Industrial Light & Magic. She has worked as a Stage Technician (Lighting, Props, Grip, Costumes), Stage & Production Manager, Special Effects Pyrotechnician and Model Maker.
Some of her film credits include: Terminator 2, Star Trek VI, Star Trek Generations, Hook, Casper and The Rocketeer. (She was on the Pyro crew which blew up the zeppelin and the Hollywoodland sign and created a lot of other flame effects used in the film.)
Credits continue:
Negative Cutter BUENA VISTA NEGATIVE CUTTING
Color Timer BOB KAISER
Titles & Opticals PACIFIC TITLE
Main Title Graphics by SAXON / ROSS FILM DESIGN, INC.
DGA Trainee DAVID SPITZER
Production Assistants HENRY H. HAMMOND, KRISTINA H. JONES, DIANA VILKAITIS, DAVID DALE
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS by
Visual Effects Supervisor KEN RALSTON
Visual Effects Producer PATRICIA BLAU
Visual Effects Art Director JOHN BELL
Optical Photography Supervisors JOHN ELLIS, BRUCE VECCHITTO
Director of Photography PATRICK TURNER
Visual Effects Editor TIM EATON
Animation Supervisor WES FORD TAKAHASHI
Rotoscope Supervisor TOM BERTINO
Supervising Modelmaker STEVE GAWLEY
Efx Camera Matte Painting Supervisor BRUCE WALTERS
Executive in Charge of Production JIM MORRIS
Executive in Charge of Post Production ED L. JONES
General Manager SCOTT ROSS
Project Manager ED HIRSH
Visual Effects Coordinators PENNY RUNGE, ANNE CALANCHINI
Camera Operators PETER DAULTON, PAT SWEENEY, TERRY CHOSTNER
Stop Motion Animator TOM ST. AMAND
Camera Assistants VANCE PIPER, KATE O’NEILL, DAVID HANKS
Optical Camera Operators KENNETH SMITH, JAMES LIM, JEFF DORAN, JON ALEXANDER, KEITH JOHNSON, PAT REPOLA
Computer Graph., Digital Supervisors SANDRA R. FORD, STUART ROBERTSON
Film Scanner Operators JOSHUA PINES, RANDALL K. BEAN, JEFF B. LIGHT
Optical Line-Up TOM ROSSETER, PEG HUNTER, LORI NELSON, DAVID KARPMAN, JENNIFER LEE, JOHN WHISNANT
Chief Matte Painter MARK SULLIVAN
Animators CRISPY GREEN, ANTHONY STACCHI, CHARLIE CANFIELD, GORDON BAKER, LORING DOYLE, KEVIN COFFEY