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Gregory “Greg” Jein (born October 31, 1945 in Los Angeles , United States ) is an American special effects technician who has made a name for himself with his model kits for science fiction films .
Live and act
The son of Chinese immigrants was fascinated by comics and the science fiction film genre from a young age . When the spaceship Enterprise series started on American television in the mid-1960s , he worked as a fan writer and wrote a famous article in T-Negative fan magazine, where he compiled a list of spaceships and registration numbers for the Star Trek era . He took the numbers from a graphic in the Enterprise episode Kirk under indictment , but more or less randomly linked them to known and sometimes newly invented spaceships.
Jein taught himself his expertise and came across the Star Trek universe when, in late 1977, he was commissioned to design the first Star Trek: Phase II variant of the D7-class studio model, which was shot with the Magicam special effects camera system. The following year, he took Douglas Trumbull , on whose debut film Dark Star - Sinister Stern had already participated Jein as a special effects designer, also in the team that the special effects and miniature structures for the first Star Trek -Kinofilm Star Trek: The film had to produce. On July 31, 1979, Jein had made such a good name for himself in the special effects industry that he took the plunge into independence and founded Gregory Jein Inc. With her he supplied several Star Trek franchises, but was also involved in other films, such as the creation of several submarine miniatures for John McTiernan's hunt for Red October .
As early as the late 1970s, Jein had been nominated twice for an Oscar as a member of a comprehensive special effects team : in 1978 for his work on Steven Spielberg's science fiction classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind and two years later for the war satire 1941 - Where Please Go to Hollywood from the same director. For his work on the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Angels in America , Jein received two other nominations, this time for a Primetime Emmy . In later years, Gregory Jein also created miniature models for blockbusters such as James Cameron's Avatar - Departure to Pandora , the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises by Christopher Nolan and another science fiction film with Interstellar , again a directorial work by Nolan.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gregory Jein at californiabirthindex.org
Web links
- Gregory Jein in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Greg Yes and No on memory-alpha.fandom.com
- Video interview with Gregory Yes and No
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yes and no, Gregory |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Yes and no, Greg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American special effects artist and model maker in science fiction film and television |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , United States |