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		John Dykstra: Yeah by all means and they look at the thing that’s interesting to me is that there was a big argument that I had at that time because I used to target for you as a basis for a lot of the illustrations I did.
		John Dykstra: No it’s changed completely and that was what was interesting my avocation which was photography, my understanding of the business of engineering and mechanical design were perfect chemistry for visual effects at that time because we designed and built equivalent that allowed camera to do things that cameras couldn’t do otherwise.
		John Dykstra: Well not yet, not yet because the basic definition of visual effects at that time was multiple images captured at separate times combined on to a single piece of film that appears if they were all photographer at the same time.
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	Imageworks - John Dykstra
		Dykstra went on to design the visual effects for the Academy Award nominated international hit "Spider-Man," and last year he completed production on the highly anticipated sequel, "Spider-Man 2" which garnered him a second Academy Award.
		Dykstra won an Academy Award® for Best Visual Effects for his work on "Star Wars" and was also recognized with an Academy Scientific and Engineering Award in 1977 for his work at ILM creating a facility "uniquely oriented toward visual effects photography."
		Dykstra's next challenge was to bring the effects world to television with the groundbreaking "Battlestar Galactica." Dykstra produced the series and served as visual effects supervisor, working with his key creative team from "Star Wars" in their newly formed company, Apogee.
	www.imageworks.com /company/bios/jdykstra.html (439 words)

	Spider-Man
		Four-time Academy Award®; nominee JOHN DYKSTRA, ASC (Visual Effects Designed By) was most recently honored with an Academy Award®; nomination for Visual Effects for his work on the record-breaking box office phenomenon Spider-Man, which was directed by Sam Raimi and stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst and Willem Dafoe.
		Dykstra was instrumental in the founding of the now world-renowned Industrial Light and Magic with Gary Kurtz and George Lucas.
		Dykstra produced and served as visual effects supervisor for the television series Battlestar Galactica, working with his key creative team from Star Wars in their newly formed company, Apogee.
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	Dykstra John
		John Dykstra was born in 1947 and attended a Southern California Design School.
		One of Dykstra's first gigs getting into the business was working with the legendary effects wizard Douglas Trumbull on the the feature film "Silent Running" which starred Bruce Dern.
		John Dykstra is the man who helped George Lucas' special effects studios known as ILM or Industrial Light and Magic.
	www.scifi2k.com /misc_html/legends/legend_dykstra_john.html (391 words)

	Reelmind.com
		With their help, Dykstra was able to take the camera match move concept that Doug Trumbull began so elegantly on 2001 and refine it to a technique that came to be known as motion control.
		For Dykstra, the gun camera epic, as he calls it, was the most challenging sequence because the camera was constantly moving.
		Dykstra's next challenge was, of all things, bringing the effects world to television with the groundbreaking Battle Star Galactica, from his newly formed company, Apogee.
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	An Interview with John Dykstra: Special Feature \| NEC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		John Dykstra is a visual effects pioneer and a legend.
		John Dykstra(JD): The way that the film's director, Sam Raimi put it together, his choice of the way the characters performed, the arc of the story, made it so that the visual effects were much more an integral part of the story.
		The task from the studio for the second film was that they wanted more vertigo, a more vertiginous travel experience.
	www.nec.com /global/features/index16/interview.html (797 words)

	Glen Larson and John Dykstra interviews from Science and Fantasy Film Classics (October 1978)
		He was involved with me primarily in the early stages prior to production and is now concentrating on seeing that the second one is ready to go when we finish this one.
		John functions as my right arm in terms of execution, runs the whole special effects wing, and handles vast amounts of the areas on the stages.
		John has a certain touch in terms of how he and some of his guys do things.
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	The Gordon E. Sawyer Award Nomination : John Dykstra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		John Dykstra was the head of ILM when it was first formed, later head of his own EFX studio, Apogee.
		Dykstra refined and further developed the concept and practical use of the computer controlled MOTION CONTROL ststems first used on the first STAR WARS film to be released, EPISODE 4: A NEW HOPE.
		John Dykstra revolutionized the entire field of special effects with his works in the 1970's, every bit as much as George Pal did in the 1950's.
	www.oscarworld.net /awardlobby_read.asp?LobbyId=1359 (185 words)

	BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - 21 YEARS OLD
		Dykstra demonstrated a distinctive flair for designing and photographing complex models and miniatures with such painstaking attention to scale that he could create a convincing illusion of great size and mass.
		Dykstra received another memento from the Academy that year-a Class II Academy Technical Award for the invention and development of the Dystraflex Camera, an important tool in the craft of motion control photography.
		Dykstra has lent his talents to such diverse film fare as CADDYSHACK (1980), Clint Eastwood's FIREFOX (1982), Tobe Hooper's remake of INVADERS FROM MARS (1986) and the comedy MY STEPMOTHER IS AN ALIEN (1988).
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	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Bringing digital actors alive
		John Dykstra is not a name known to most cinema-goers, but without him, many of the wonders on screen would not have happened.
		Mr Dykstra is one of Hollywood's leading lights in the area of visual effects, with films like Star Wars, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Stuart Little to his credit.
		As visual effects supervisor for Columbia Pictures, Mr Dykstra says he has to always push the boundaries of what is possible.
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	John Dykstra Speaks on Milo
		Legendary Special Efffects Supervisor, John Dykstra, with some heavy weight films under his belt such as Star Wars, Batman and Star Trek recently commented on his use of the Milo Motion Control System on the all-time blockbuster, Spiderman.
		Dykstra who originally ran George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic to create the original ground-breaking effects of Star Wars, is a veteran to Special Effects supervision.
		John Dykstra, visual effects designer said, "For Spiderman, we used an excellent motion rig from Mark Roberts [Motion Control] called the Milo.
	www.mrmoco.com /Newsletter/JohnDykstraSpeaksonMilo.htm (186 words)

	Spider-Man: Sony Imageworks creates swinging visuals; led by effects vet John Dykstra, Sony Imageworks created 475 ...
		John Dykstra, [myself] and the other artists at Imageworks had to figure out how to get all these effects for the movie to work."
		So in the same way that a stunt skydiver has a stunt cameraman that follows him and shoots his routine, Spider-Man would have a "personal cameraman" so the audience could have the excitement of swooping through the city from that point of view.
		So instead they selected 17 prominent buildings, sent a crew to New York City, surveyed the structures with conventional techniques, modeled them and then mapped on 60,000 corresponding high-resolution photographic textures to build the high rise CG version of the city.
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	John Dykstra - Moviefone
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		Two-time Academy Award®-winning visual effects designer John Dykstra began his career under the tutelage of noted visual effects visionary Douglas Trumbull,...
		John Dykstra - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, John Dykstra Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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	John Dykstra Web Page At MyStarLinks.com
		Synopsis: John Dykstra, who is returning as visual effects supervisor, said the tentacles...
		John Dykstra was a photographer who liked to tinker with the images...
		John Albert Dykstra was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on June 10, 1886...
	www.mystarlinks.com /stars/johndykstra.php (533 words)

	John Dykstra to Direct Tortoise and Hippo - ComingSoon.net
		Two-time Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor John Dykstra is set to make his directorial debut on Tortoise and Hippo for Walden Media and Relevant Entertainment, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
		Dykstra's cinema-technology prowess dates back to 1977 on George Lucas' Star Wars, for which he built the first computer-operated motion-control camera system and won an Oscar for best visual effects.
		One of the director's main challenges will be depicting the tsunami onscreen, which brings with it computer-graphic and storytelling challenges.
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