1. Robert Blalack was a Panama-born American mass-media visual artist, independent filmmaker, and producer.
25 Facts About Robert Blalack
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Robert Blalack received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in 1984 for his work on the 1983 television film The Day After.
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Robert Blalack directed experimental films and mixed-media television commercials, and he produced visual effects for theme park rides.
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Robert Blalack was born in Panama on December 9,1948.
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Robert Blalack attended St Paul's School in London before receiving a BA in English Literature and Theater Arts from Pomona College in Claremont, California.
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Robert Blalack died from cancer on February 2,2022, at the age of 73.
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In 1973, Robert Blalack worked night shifts at Crest Film Labs, operating an optical printer making 35mm to 16mm TV negatives.
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Robert Blalack created a first-person subjective optical effects sequence designed to put the audience in the driver's seat of a Formula One race car for the film One By One.
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Robert Blalack formed Praxis Film Works, Inc during his work on One by One.
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Trumbull commissioned Robert Blalack to make a 16mm promo showcasing the creativity of Trumbull's visual effects studio, Future General.
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Dykstra asked Robert Blalack to help build the Star Wars VistaVision Visual Effects facility.
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The modest budget of Star Wars dictated that Robert Blalack gather obsolete VistaVision optical composite equipment, modernize and debug each mechanical and optical component, devise methods to mass-produce 365 Visual Effects composites, design the Rotoscope Department, and then hire and train the Optical Composite and Rotoscope crew.
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Robert Blalack supervised the design and fabrication of the world's first and only aerial image diffraction-limited VistaVision-to-35mm optical composite system.
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Robert Blalack received the 1978 Best Visual Effects Academy Award for his work on Star Wars.
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In 1980, Robert Blalack produced visual effects for 12 of the 13 episodes of Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, in collaboration with the series producer Adrian Malone.
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In 1983, Robert Blalack designed and produced The Day After visual effects.
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In 1984 Robert Blalack received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement, Special Visual Effects for his work on The Day After.
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Robert Blalack created and produced visual effects for many motion pictures, including:.
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Robert Blalack directed hundreds of multi-layered mixed-media USA and International TV commercials, produced by Praxis Film Works, Inc.
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Robert Blalack discovered his passion for film-making when he attended experimental movie programs that played on the Pomona College campus from time to time.
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Robert Blalack would go on to study with O'Neil at CalArts.
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Robert Blalack came to regard film as a means and medium to open the doors of perception.
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Robert Blalack was in post-production on Daddy Dearest, a Praxis Film Works, Inc production of his experimental 8K motion picture, at the time of his death.
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Robert Blalack gave multi-media talks at more than 70 universities, film schools, VFX schools, art schools, and film festivals in China, Germany, Austria, and France at the Cinematheque Francaise.
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Robert Blalack explored the design and realization of ILM from scratch for Star Wars, the impact of VFX on Hollywood studio creative choices, and strategies for aspiring movie workers to optimize their career paths and make use of today's merged media motion picture design and production opportunities.