Scott Farrar

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Scott Farrar (* 1950 ) is an American specialist in visual effects .

Life

Farrer studied at the University of California Film School at Los Angeles , where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1972 . After completing postgraduate studies at the same university, he completed his Master of Fine Arts in 1975 . He then worked as a freelance cameraman for commercials. In 1977 he was responsible for the photographic special effects for the film Foes and in 1979 for Star Trek: The Film . In 1980 a friend who worked at Industrial Light & Magic told him that they needed someone who knew about visual effects as well as on-set photography. He then signed a seven-month contract for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . After the film, however, he decided to stay with Industrial Light & Magic . In the years that followed, films such as Return of the Jedi , Star Trek III: In Search of Mr. Spock , Starman and 1985 Cocoon followed , for each of which he worked as a special effects cameraman. For Cocoon he received the Oscar for best visual effects along with Ken Ralston , Ralph McQuarrie and David Berry .

In 1987 he worked on the film Willow , in which the morphing technique was used for the first time . In 1988, Wrong Game followed with Roger Rabbit and Cocoon II - The Return , in which he was responsible for the visual effects for the first time. In this capacity, films followed such as Back to the Future II , Back to the Future III , Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Land and Backdraft - Men Who Go Through Fire , for which he was nominated for an Oscar for best visual effects. He received his third nomination in 2001 for AI - Artificial Intelligence , but this year The Lord of the Rings: The Companions won . This was followed by a 2006 nomination for The Chronicles of Narnia: The King of Narnia , 2008 for Transformers and 2012 for Transformers 3 . However, in none of these cases did he receive the award.

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claudia Meglin, Rolf Giesen: Künstliche Welten September 1, 2000, ISBN 978-3203841144 , p. 222 (accessed January 1, 2013).
  2. ↑ UCLA Awards Watch - . November 7, 2008. Accessed January 1, 2013.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / old.tft.ucla.edu  
  3. ↑ a b ILM's Scott Farrar on Transformers, and the Transformation of Digital Effects Work . In: Studio Daily . July 26, 2007. Retrieved January 1, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Farrar, Scott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American specialist in visual effects
DATE OF BIRTH 1950