Tom Bertino

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Tom Bertino is a professional animator, formerly Animation Director and Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic.

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He graduated from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1981. Tom Bertino joined Industrial Light & Magic in 1986 as a Supervisor of the Rotoscope Department. Bertino later moved into the Animation Department. and contributed his talents to a number of feature films including: Star Wars , Terminator 2: Judgment Day , Death Becomes Her , The Abyss , The Mask , and Who Framed Roger Rabbit . [1] [2]

Beginning his professional animation career with Sally Cruikshank in 1978, Bertino has worked for Nepenthe, DiC, Hanna-Barbera and Colossal Pictures in a number of capacities including character design, storyboards, layouts, voices and sound effects.

In 1995, Bertino was nominated for an Academy Award for best achievement in visual effects and received a BAFTA nomination in the same category, for the groundbreaking computer graphics imagery he created in The Mask. [3]

In 2005, Bertino left ILM and became the Director of the Graduate Department of the School of Animation at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. [4]

Filmography

Art Department - filmography

Director - filmography

Miscellaneous Crew - filmography

Himself - filmography

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References

  1. ↑ "Tom Bertino". IMDb .
  2. ↑ "NOVA Online | Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond | Tom Bertino". PBS .
  3. ↑ "Tom Bertino". Archived from the original on 2004-10-21.
  4. ↑ "Academy of Art University School of Animation & Visual Effects Faculty". academyart.edu. Academy of Art University . Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  5. ↑ The New York Times Movies


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