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After gaining invaluable experience as a sound technician in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Rydstrom went on to do sound design for the comedy Spaceballs. The sound design for Backdraft, prepared from scratch, would become the precursor for his sound for Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Gary Rydstrom, Director of Creative Operations/Sound Designer and Mixer, joined Skywalker Sound in 1983 as an operator in the machine room. Since then, he has contributed his talents to many projects as a sound designer, re-recording mixer, effects mixer and foley mixer.
- January 1, 1
- Sound Department, Additional Crew, Director
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Gary Rydstrom
Gary Rydstrom is a film director and sound designer. For Pixar Animation Studios, he directed two shorts: the Oscar-nominated Lifted , and Toy Story Toons: Hawaiian Vacation . For Disney and Studio Ghibli, he directed the English-language versions of The Secret World of Arrietty , From Up on Poppy Hill , and The Wind Rises .
When Gary Rydstrom recorded and mixed together a set of noises for the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park, he never guessed he'd inform our ideas about them for decades to come.
While now voiced by recognizable Hollywood stars, it was Rydstrom’s sound that gave them feel of being real toys, finding sounds that bridged the gap between real-world objects and a...
