Steve Williams
Canadian special effects artist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Steven "Spaz" Williams is a Canadian special effects artist, animator, and film and commercials director. Biography Williams studied animation at Sheridan College, graduating in 1984. During the summers he would work at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Computer Laboratory, learning more about computer animation. After graduation, he went on to work at Alias Research in Toronto. He acted as the company's spokesperson, leading to a job at Industrial Light & Magic in 1988. ILM had purchased Silicon Graphics computers to create the computer-generated effects in The Abyss, and said workstations used Alias modeling software. Along with animators Mark A.Z. Dippé, Scott E. Anderson and Jay Riddle, Williams helped develop a photorealistic alien pseudopod made out of seawater, which later earned the film an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. Continuing at ILM, Williams worked in two more breakthrough moments of CG effects that earned the company more Oscars: the T-1000 from Terminator 2: Judgment Day , a liquid metal robot that evolved from the work done in The Abyss; and the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park , one of which was the Tyrannosaurus which Williams personally built.
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