Overview
John Dykstra
Known For
Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
An eight-part behind-the-scenes featurette, charting the film from pre-production through...
Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible
Leslie Iwerks' documentary takes audiences behind the scenes at ILM...
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
This documentary about "2001: A Space Odyssey" looks at some...
Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet
A documentary about the making of, and legacy of, the...
Biography
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.