Creative director Visual effects supervisor Film historian Lecturer
Years active
1979 – present
Awards
Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Emmy, VES Founders Award, Doctorate of Letters
Website
Magnopus
Craig Barron (born April 6, 1961)[1] 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.[2][3]
Working at Industrial Light & Magic, Barron contributed to the visual effects on such films as The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. At his own VFX studio Matte World Digital, he produced visual effects on Zodiac, Alice in Wonderland and Hugo. Over the course of his VFX career, Barron contributed to the visual effects on more than 100 films. He is an Emmy Award recipient for By Dawn's Early Light and he received an Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects on Batman Returns. In 2009, he won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
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. He hosts presentations and lectures on the visual effects from Hollywood’s studio age. He produces short documentaries that reveal the formerly secret history of how visual effects pioneers created seamless visuals using matte paintings, miniatures and optical effects.
^According to the State of California. California Birth Index, 1905–1995. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. Searchable at MyHeritage
^Craig Barron - Creative Director. Magnopus. Retrieved September 15, 2022.
^What We Do. Magnopus. Retrieved December 22, 2021.
CraigBarron (born April 6, 1961) is an American visual effects artist and creative director at Magnopus, a media company that produces visual development...
Traditional Matte Paintings | CraigBarron". Archived from the original on 2012-02-15. Retrieved 2010-10-06. Cotta Vaz & Barron 2002, p. 33. Robert Guenette...
upper halves of some of the larger buildings in the film's downtown set. CraigBarron, one of the effects supervisors, said that these digital models did not...
Tom Woodruff Jr., and George Gibbs Batman Returns Michael L. Fink, CraigBarron, John Bruno, and Dennis Skotak 1993 (66th) Jurassic Park Dennis Muren...
work remains the same, regardless of the tools and techniques used. CraigBarron, the co-founder of Matte World Digital, offered an insight regarding...
Carolina 12–2 (12) Pittsburgh Truist Field Attendance: 4,263 Umpires: HP: CraigBarron 1B: Ryan Clark 2B: Travis Carlson 3B: Greg Street WP: J. DeCaro (5–1)...
Effects in Film. The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-13465-1. Mark Cotta Vaz; CraigBarron: The Invisible Art: The Legends of Movie Matte Painting. San Francisco...
politics, and real estate. Donald Trump, his third wife Melania, and their son Barron were the first family for the duration of his presidency. Trump's father...
with 3 other nominations. The Oscar he won was shared with Eric Barba, CraigBarron and Steve Preeg. "2014 Academy Awards nominees". oscars.org. Retrieved...
films, which his colleague and good friend Steven Spielberg directed. CraigBarron, who worked at ILM as part of the matte painting department, told Star...
‡ Alien³ – Richard Edlund, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr. and George Gibbs Batman Returns – Michael L. Fink, CraigBarron, John Bruno and Dennis Skotak...
Neill and Stan Winston) and Best Special Visual Effects (Michael Fink, CraigBarron, John Bruno, and Dennis Skotak). For the 65th Academy Awards, Batman...
Effects in Film. The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-13465-1. Mark Cotta Vaz; CraigBarron: The Invisible Art: The Legends of Movie Matte Painting, Chronicle Books...
Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. Batman Returns Michael L. Fink, John Bruno, CraigBarron and Dennis Skotak Beauty and the Beast Randy Fullmer 1993 (47th) Jurassic...
Bulls Athletic Park Attendance: 4,084 Umpires: Brian Miller Mike Jarboe CraigBarron Doug Vines WP: J. Knapp (5–3) Sv: D. Pence (1) Boxscore LP: C. Early...
1988 by visual effects supervisor CraigBarron, matte painter Michael Pangrazio, and producer Krystyna Demkowicz. Barron and Pangrazio had worked together...
Button, in the category of Best Visual Effects. He shared his Oscar with CraigBarron, Burt Dalton and Steve Preeg. In 2013, Barba was promoted to Chief Creative...
with Don Shay and Jody Duncan, moderated by Matte World Digital founder CraigBarron. That event highlighted the magazine's definitive coverage of the most...
After leaving ILM, Pangrazio co-founded Matte World Digital with CraigBarron in 1988. Barron and Pangrazio continued to work with the crew at ILM on notable...
category of Best Visual Effects. He shared his Oscar with Eric Barba, CraigBarron and Burt Dalton. He graduated in 1989 from Los Alamos High School. Oblivion...
president of the United States has used several pseudonyms, including "John Barron" (or "John Baron"), "John Miller" and "David Dennison". His practice of...
Ellenshaw Under Glass - Going to the Matte for Disney Mark Cotta Vaz; CraigBarron: The Invisible Art: The Legends of Movie Matte Painting, Chronicle Books...
and Grahame Andrew The Truman Show – Michael J. McAlister, Brad Kuehn, CraigBarron and Peter Chesney Outstanding British Film Elizabeth – Alison Owen, Eric...
ed. London: BFI Publishing. ISBN 1-84457-192-0 Cotta Vaz, Mark, and CraigBarron (2002). The Invisible Art: The Legends of Movie Matte Painting. San Francisco:...
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