John Dykstra

Known for Visual EffectsBorn 1947-06-03 (age 79)Long Beach, California, USA

John Charles Dykstra, A.S.C. (/ˈdaɪkstrə/; born June 3, 1947) is an American special effects artist, a pioneer in developing computers in filmmaking and a recipient of three Academy Awards, among many other awards and prizes. He was one of the original employees of Industrial Light & Magic, the special effects and computer graphics division of Lucasfilm. He is well known as the special effects lead on the original Star Wars, helping bring the original visuals for lightsabers, space battles between X-wings and TIE fighters, and Force powers to the screen. He also led special effects on many other movies, including Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Stuart Little, X-Men: First Class, Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Dykstra, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Stuart Little: Making It Big

Inglourious Basterds

Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class

LIGHT & MAGIC

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

X-Men: First Class

Spider-Man

Spider-Man 2

The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek

Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon

The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz

Riddle Me This: Why Is Batman Forever?

Clint Eastwood: Director

Dolittle

Kong: Skull Island

Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible

X-Men: Apocalypse

Battlestar Galactica

The Oscars

Hancock

Caddyshack

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Ghost in the Shell

Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001

Stuart Little

Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001

Lifeforce

Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'

My Stepmother Is an Alien

Seventh Son

Invaders from Mars

Batman Forever

Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet

Avalanche Express

Batman & Robin

8 Arms to Hold You

Sciography

The Making Of Lifeforce