It was founded in 1988 by Stan Winston alumni Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis who hails from Phoenix, Arizona. Notable work includes Death Becomes...

effects work, Woodruff and fellow Stan Winston Studios effects supervisor Alec Gillis left his company and founded effects studio Amalgamated Dynamics in Chatsworth...

independent science-fiction monster horror film written and directed by Alec Gillis and produced by Tom Woodruff Jr., the founders of the special effects...

more 'feline' athletic body, that would also allow what effects artist Alec Gillis described as "some elegance and fluidity of movement as opposed to the...

to keep the Norwegian camp visually consistent with the first film. Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. of Amalgamated Dynamics (ADI) created the practical...

Gillis were also contracted to take care of the redesign of the Alien—I found out much later... I thought I had the job and that Woodruff and Gillis would...

charge of the project, which contained 400 effects shots. ADI founders Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr. and members of their company, began designing costumes...

(1989/90) 1990s Stan Winston (1991) Ken Ralston, Tom Woodruff Jr., and Alec Gillis (1992) Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and Michael Lantieri...

was not available. Winston instead recommended Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis, two former workers of his studio who had just started their own company...

(1989/90) 1990s Stan Winston (1991) Ken Ralston, Tom Woodruff Jr., and Alec Gillis (1992) Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and Michael Lantieri...

Strategy Guide (2001) Alien vs. Predator: The Creature Effects of ADI (by Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr., Design Studio Press, August 2004, ISBN 0-9726676-5-2)...

daxophone as the lead instrument. For practical effects, Finn recruited Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. of Amalgamated Dynamics, who he described as a major...

Won BAFTA Award Best Visual Effects Michael Lantieri, Ken Ralston, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., Doug Chiang, and Douglas Smythe Won Golden Globe Award...

Gillis, Alec & Woodruff, Tom (2004). AVP: Alien vs Predator: The Creature Effects of ADI. Titan Books Limited. p. 128. ISBN 1-84576-004-2. Gillis, Alec...

Alec MacGillis is an American journalist. He is a senior reporter for ProPublica. MacGillis’ father is Donald MacGillis, the former Boston Globe editorial...

Recipients Result Ref. Academy Awards Best Visual Effects Richard Edlund, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr. and George Gibbs Nominated British Academy Film Awards...

second by creature effects designers and creators Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis. Disc one of the two-disc unrated edition includes both commentary tracks...

level — Actor Mahershala Ali, 411mania interview Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis, head of visual effects studio Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. (A.D.I.), who...

having previously worked on Alien 3. ADI founders Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis also had experience working with Stan Winston on Aliens. ADI based their...

Vincent Ward, David Giler, Ezra Swerdlow, Sigourney Weaver, Paul McGann, Alec Gillis (2010). Wreckage and Rage: Making Alien 3 (Blu-ray). 20th Century Fox...

Nominated Best Supporting Actor Bill Hader Won Best Make-up Shanw Zander, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr. Nominated Best Special Effects Kristy Hollidge, Nicholas...

still look like Hoult, as well as with a furry body, which makeup artist Alec Gillis of Amalgamated Dynamics likened to "something akin to a wolf's pelt on...

Awards Starship Troopers Best Visual Effects with Scott E. Anderson, Alec Gillis and John Richardson Nominated 1997 69th Academy Awards Dragonheart with...

Chiang, Douglas Smythe, and Tom Woodruff Jr. Alien 3 Richard Edlund, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., and George Gibbs Batman Returns Michael L. Fink, Craig...

(1989/90) 1990s Stan Winston (1991) Ken Ralston, Tom Woodruff Jr., and Alec Gillis (1992) Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and Michael Lantieri...

device Carla Marais as eight-year-old girl Ryan Angilley as Martinez Alec Gillis as Militia officer 1 Ruan Coetzee as Militia officer 2 Paul Davies as...

Mixed Media). For the 70th Academy Awards, Tippett, Scott E. Anderson, Alec Gillis, and John Richardson were nominated for Best Visual Effects. Starship...

the queen piercing Bishop's chest with her tail, Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis constructed a chestplate for Henriksen with a rubber segment of the queen's...

television movie Sweet Revenge (also known as Bittersweet Revenge) with Alec Baldwin. Other television films during the 1980s included Private Sessions...

August 1992. Alex Thomson (Cinematographer), Terry Rawlings (Editor), Alec Gillis (Alien effects designer), Tom Woodruff Jr. (Alien effects designer),...