Craig Barron was born on April 6,1961 and is an American visual effects artist and creative director at Magnopus, a media company that produces visual development and virtual production services for motion pictures, television, museums and multimedia platforms.
19 Facts About Craig Barron
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Craig Barron is an Emmy Award recipient for By Dawn's Early Light and he received an Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects on Batman Returns.
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Craig Barron is a film historian, museum exhibit curator, and educator with a focus on the history of visual effects in classic films, before and after the digital age.
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Craig Barron produces short documentaries that reveal the formerly secret history of how visual effects pioneers created seamless visuals using matte paintings, miniatures and optical effects.
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Craig Barron later told Star Wars Insider that he had originally wanted a job in animation and stop motion, but he jumped at the chance to join the matte painting department when there was an opening.
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Craig Barron is credited as director of matte photography on Willow, his last film at ILM, before leaving to start his own company Matte World.
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Craig Barron contributed to the visual effects of more than 100 films at MWD, innovating digital-effects techniques for Zodiac, Alice in Wonderland, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 2009.
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Craig Barron shot digital images of existing city-building textures, then added painted period details in the computer.
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Craig Barron researched archival photographs and architectural drawings for the shot.
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Craig Barron worked with Fincher again in 2008 to build several digital matte and CGI environments for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
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Craig Barron was a visual effects supervisor at Tippett Studio in 2013, where he developed digital environments for film and commercial productions alongside his former ILM co-worker Phil Tippett.
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Craig Barron sought out and interviewed retired Hollywood studio-era cameramen and matte painters who revealed the formerly secretive world of visual effects techniques that were used in films such as King Kong, The Wizard of Oz, and Citizen Kane.
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The duo have been continuing guest hosts on the TCM Network and Craig Barron has been an ongoing contributor to the annual TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood since 2014.
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Craig Barron has been an adjunct associate professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts since 2015.
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Craig Barron produces and is featured in a number of documentary supplements for DVD and Blu-ray editions from The Criterion Collection and Turner Classic Movies.
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From 2007 to the present, Craig Barron served on several planning committees tasked with developing the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
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In 2014 Craig Barron became creative director at Magnopus, a media company based in Los Angeles.
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Craig Barron specializes in interactive and immersive virtual-reality experiences that put filmmakers "inside the movie" during production.
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At Magnopus, Craig Barron directed the VR tie-in to 2017's Blade Runner 2049.