• 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...
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    effects work, Woodruff and fellow Stan Winston Studios effects supervisor Alec Gillis left his company and founded effects studio Amalgamated Dynamics in Chatsworth...
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  • independent science-fiction monster horror film written and directed by Alec Gillis and produced by Tom Woodruff Jr., the founders of the special effects...
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  • to keep the Norwegian camp visually consistent with the first film. Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. of Amalgamated Dynamics (ADI) created the practical...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • charge of the project, which contained 400 effects shots. ADI founders Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr. and members of their company, began designing costumes...
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    (1989/90) 1990s Stan Winston (1991) Ken Ralston, Tom Woodruff Jr., and Alec Gillis (1992) Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and Michael Lantieri...
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  • Alec MacGillis is an American journalist. He is a senior reporter for ProPublica. MacGillis’ father is Donald MacGillis, the former Boston Globe editorial...
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  • Nominated Best Supporting Actor Bill Hader Won Best Make-up Shanw Zander, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr. Nominated Best Special Effects Kristy Hollidge, Nicholas...
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  • busy refining the story, he gave free reins regarding design to artists Alec Gillis, Shane Mahan, John Rosengrant and Tom Woodruff Jr., the last of whom...
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  • 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...
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  • Won BAFTA Award Best Visual Effects Michael Lantieri, Ken Ralston, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., Doug Chiang, and Douglas Smythe Won Golden Globe Award...
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    Awards Starship Troopers Best Visual Effects with Scott E. Anderson, Alec Gillis and John Richardson Nominated 1997 69th Academy Awards Dragonheart with...
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    (1989/90) 1990s Stan Winston (1991) Ken Ralston, Tom Woodruff Jr., and Alec Gillis (1992) Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and Michael Lantieri...
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  • 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)...
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  • (1989/90) 1990s Stan Winston (1991) Ken Ralston, Tom Woodruff Jr., and Alec Gillis (1992) Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and Michael Lantieri...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • Mixed Media). For the 70th Academy Awards, Tippett, Scott E. Anderson, Alec Gillis, and John Richardson were nominated for Best Visual Effects. Starship...
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  • level — Actor Mahershala Ali, 411mania interview Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis, head of visual effects studio Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. (A.D.I.), who...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • (1989/90) 1990s Stan Winston (1991) Ken Ralston, Tom Woodruff Jr., and Alec Gillis (1992) Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and Michael Lantieri...
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  • Shane Gillis was announced as a cast member in 2019, but the offer was withdrawn due to controversies surrounding past use of racial stereotypes. Gillis went...
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  • 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...
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