Dennis Muren, a visual effects veteran is set to receive lifetime achievement at Paris Images Digital Summit which will be held between 28 and 30 January.
Muren is best celebrated for his Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and George Lucas which reshaped Hollywood: Star Wars saga, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Abyss, A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Super 8 (2011).
When George Lucas started Industrial Light & Magic in 1976, he hired Muren to work on Star Wars and at ILM he forged the complex CGI effects to make the movies look a work of real rather than straight out of computer. He turns 70 soon, but is not retired and works out of ILM’s San Francisco headquarters two or three days a week and sits in on dailies.
He has won eight Oscars, superior VFX work on movies like Jurassic Park, Terminator 2, Abyss and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and also a Technical Academy award for the development of a Motion Picture Figure Mover for animation photography.
In 1993, Muren received a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, a first visual effects artist. He’s currently working on a book for digital artists.