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Ronald B. Moore. Ronald B. Moore is an American visual effects producer and five-time Emmy award winner. Moore was the visual effects supervisor on Star Trek spin-off series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. He was involved with such films as Ghostbusters and Birdman .
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Ronald "Ron" B. Moore (born 11 September 1945; age 78) is a visual effects (VFX) coordinator and supervisor who worked on Star Trek: The Next Generation, the movie Star Trek Generations, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise. In a smaller capacity, Moore has made, as a script supervisor, uncredited contributions to other Star Trek movies as...
His work on Star Trek spanned eighteen years, encompassing the very first modern spin-off television episode "Encounter at Farpoint" in 1987, as well as the very last, "These Are the Voyages..." in 2005, becoming one of the relatively few Star Trek production staffers in any function (the exclusive assembly encompassing among others Rick Berman, Peter Lauritson, David Takemura and Michael Okuda), who officially served uninterrupted on the entire run in the "Berman-era" of the modern television franchise, even though he has not worked on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. His work on the franchise earned him five Emmy Awards and eight supplemental nominations, a Visual Effects Society Award (VES) as well as an additional nomination, joined by a FantastiCon Award, in the process becoming the third most honored Star Trek staffer, only surpassed by friend Curry and make-up artist Michael Westmore.
Due to the close similarity in names, Ron Moore was often confused with writer Ronald D. Moore, who started working for the franchise in 1989, and the confusion was not restricted to outsiders only, as Ron B. Moore gleefully recalled, "When Ron D. started working on TNG I even got his first paycheck. I did give it back to him but pointed out that he should be careful, as I know I would have no problem cashing his checks. I never got another, but am still hoping I do." (Flying Starships, p. 78) The confusion even persisted as late as 1993, when Moore was credited as "Ronald D. Moore" for his work on "Gambit, Part II".
Born and raised in southern California, Ron Moore has from an early age onward developed a keen interest in photography, which he has pursued vigorously during his high school years as well as during his two year stint in the US navy as a photographer's mate on the submarine tender he served on. After his stint in the Navy he enrolled, against the wishes of his parents, in the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California (which was the Alma Mater of his later colleague Gary Hutzel as well, as it was of Dana White) and graduated with a major in Motion Picture Production. Having graduated in San Diego, Moore remained there and enrolled in the National Radio Institute, learning the technical aspects of building electronic equipment such as televisions and radios. As technician he landed his first job at the electronics company Cohu, building televisions and cameras.
An avid reader of the professional journal American Cinematographer, Ron Moore soon realized however, that this path taken led him away from his dream of working in the motion picture industry, and he took the gamble of quitting his job and moving to Los Angeles to find gainful employment in the industry. Not being a member of any of the motion picture industry unions or guilds, Moore had a hard time finding such, but eventually managed to land a job in 1978 as a driver at the Westheimer Company, the very same effects company that provided much of the VFX for The Original Series, a fact not lost on the thrilled Original Series fan Moore. While his job only entailed delivering finished shots to customers, Moore ingratiated himself as much as possible in the company by learning as much as possible about the effects business, whenever he was able to, which eventually paid off when Joseph Westheimer promoted him to optical lineup technician, which prompted Moore to definitively settle in Los Angeles, bringing over his wife Barbara from San Diego. During his years at Westheimer's, Moore made uncredited contributions to the television movie Kiss Meets The Phantom of the Park (1978, his very first motion picture work), The Muppet Movie (1979) as well as the television series The Love Boat, Charlie's Angels and Project U.F.O..
Between 1981 and 1984, Ron Moore worked for a succession of effects companies and further honed his skills as a VFX technician. Companies he worked for during that period were Freeze Frame, Modern Film Effects (where he met and befriended Dan Curry, and incidentally one of the very few, if not only visual effects house in existence at the time, not being hired to work on The Original Series) and Universal Opticals.
In February 1984, Ron Moore started working for Richard Edlund's company Boss Film Studios as one of that company's first employees when Edlund started his company as "Boss Film Corporation" only one month earlier. Moore would remain in Edlund's employment until he was hired in 1987 by Paramount Television to work on The Next Generation. While at Boss Films, he worked as optical lineup technician on Ghostbusters (1984, earning him his first official credit), 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) and Fright Night (1985). As a visual effects editorial consultant Moore worked on Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986), The Boy Who Could Fly (1986), and Solarbabies (1986). Other credits include Big Trouble in Little China (1986) and Moonstruck (1987).
During his years at Boss Films, Ron Moore served as a member on the voting board of The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the organization responsible for the Emmy Awards. While there, he was one of the members who successfully lobbied for "visual effects" to be split of from the former non-descript "Art Direction" category into a category onto its own. Years later he served for four years in a similar function on the board of directors of the Visual Effects Society, the organization responsible for the VES award, of which Moore had been a recipient.
After having left the Star Trek franchise, Ron Moore worked in 2006 as VFX producer for EntityFX on the action remake Miami Vice, followed by Rush Hour 3 (2007) and the television drama series Kings (2009) for which he received his third VES award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program in 2010, shared with Brian Vogt, Craig Weiss, and Niel Wray.
(This list is currently incomplete.)
•TNG:
•"The Outrageous Okona" – Visual Effects Coordinator (uncredited) (Season 2)
•"The Ensigns of Command" – Visual Effects Coordinator (credited as Ron Moore) (Season 3)
•"The Survivors" – Visual Effects Coordinator (credited as Ron Moore)
•"The Bonding" – Visual Effects Coordinator (credited as Ron Moore)
•Star Trek DVD and Blu-ray special features:
•TNG Season 6 DVD-special feature, "Select Historical Data Year Six" ("To CGI or Not to CGI"), interviewed on 11 July 2002
•TNG Season 7 DVD-special feature, "Departmental Briefing Year Seven" ("Creating Parallel Worlds"), interviewed on 11 July 2002
•VOY Season 2 DVD-special feature, "Red Alert: Visual Effects Season Two", interviewed on 16 October 2003
•VOY Season 3 DVD-special feature, "Red Alert: Visual Effects Season Two", interviewed on 16 October 2003
•VOY Season 6 DVD-special feature, "Red Alert: Amazing Visual Effects", interviewed on 15 July 2004
Ron. B. Moore has received the following award wins and nominations for his work on Star Trek franchise, in the process becoming its third most honored staffer after Make-up Artist Michael Westmore and colleague Dan Curry:
•Emmy Awards: Moore received the following Emmy Award wins and nominations in the category Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series:
•1989 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "Q Who", shared with Dan Curry, Peter W. Moyer, and Steve Price
•1990 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "Deja Q", shared with Dan Curry, Peter W. Moyer, Steve Price, and Don Lee
•1992 Emmy Award win for the episode "A Matter Of Time", shared with Dan Curry, David Takemura, Erik Nash, Don Lee, Peter Sternlicht, Adam Howard, Syd Dutton, and Robert Stromberg
•1999 Emmy Award win for the episode "Dark Frontier", shared with Dan Curry, Mitch Suskin, Elizabeth Castro, Arthur J. Codron, Paul Hill, Don Greenberg, Gregory Rainoff, Rob Bonchune, Adam Lebowitz, and John Teska
•"Behind-the-scenes: Visual Effects Journal: "Fury"", Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 20, pp. 26-30, December 2000 – Author
•"Behind-the-scenes: Visual Effects Journal: "Fury" (Part 2)", Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 21, pp. 82-87, January 2001 – Author
•"Collectables: The STAR TREK Guitar", Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 1, pp. 68-69, May 2001 – Author
•Flying Starships, 2012 – Author
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Ronald B. Moore Visual Effects Supervisor Visual Effects Producer Visual Effects Coordinator Winner 5 Emmy Awards. I am a Visual Effects Supervisor and have been involved with many movies and television shows including 18 years with Star Trek at Paramount. My new book, FLYING STARSHIPS, Is now available!
MOORE: Working on Generations was a great experience. We had a really great team of people working on the film. I was visual effects supervisor and did most of the set work and all the non-space shots in the film. John Knoll was the ILM visual effects supervisor and they did almost all the space shots. It was great working with him on the project.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ronald B. Moore is an American visual effects producer and five-time Emmy award winner. Moore was the visual effects supervisor on Star Trek spin-off series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. He was involved with such films as Ghostbusters and Birdman.
Ronald B. Moore Visual Effects Supervisor Visual Effects Producer Visual Effects Coordinator Winner 5 Emmy Awards. I am a Visual Effects Supervisor and have been involved with many movies and television shows including 18 years with Star Trek at Paramount. My new book, FLYING STARSHIPS, Is now available! The book is available on Amazon and ...
Due to the close similarity in names, Ron Moore was often confused with Visual Effects Supervisor Ronald B. Moore, already employed by the franchise in 1987, and the confusion was not restricted to outsiders only, as Ron B. Moore gleefully recalled, "When Ron D. started working on TNG I even got his first paycheck. I did give it back to him but ...
