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- Kenneth Ralston is an American visual effects artist, currently the Visual Effect Supervisor and Creative Head at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Ralston began his career at the commercial animation and visual effects company, Cascade Pictures in Hollywood, where he worked on over 150 advertising campaigns in the early 1970s.
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Kenneth Ralston (born 1954) is an American visual effects artist, currently the Visual Effect Supervisor and Creative Head at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Ralston began his career at the commercial animation and visual effects company, Cascade Pictures in Hollywood, where he worked on over 150 advertising campaigns in the early 1970s. [1]
Visual Effects: Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi. Ken Ralston was born in 1954 in the USA. He is an assistant director, known for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), Contact (1997) and Forrest Gump (1994).
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"Those of us at ILM were aiming for reality, or something beyond reality in this movie. Something that has life, a spark, and a quality that's bigger than life."
―Ken Ralston
"His maneuvering of the TIE fighter and the Falcon show his great understanding of the need for timing , motion, and life within the shot."
―Dennis Muren, on Ranston's talent
Ken Ralston was one of the original employees of Industrial Light & Magic, originally hired by Dennis Muren to help George Lucas. He served as one of three assistant cameramen for the Miniature and Optical Effects Unit on A New Hope and one of two effects cameramen for the same unit on The Empire Strikes Back. He went on to serve as Visual Effects Supervisor for Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi.
Ralston was responsible for placing the tennis shoe and potato easter eggs in the original trilogy.
Ralston is one of the signers of the limited edition release of the upcoming limited edition hardcover The Art of Ralph McQuarrie. He has also appeared with interviews in Lucasfilm Magazine 41 and Star Wars Insider 67, along with providing interior artwork for Monsters and Aliens from George Lucas.
Additionally, Ralston visual effects work has won him a total of five Academy Awards and five British Academy Awards.
•Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (assistant cameraman)
•"Special Effects" — Bantha Tracks 21
•Classic Moments: Funny Rebels on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
•"Special Effects"—Bantha Tracks 21 on Hyperspace (content removed from StarWars.com and unavailable)
•Galactic Gallery: Critter Assortment on Hyperspace (content removed from StarWars.com and unavailable)
•Galactic Gallery: Hooked Up Hutt on Hyperspace (content removed from StarWars.com and unavailable)
1."Special Effects" — Bantha Tracks 21
2.Phil Tippett: Hands-On Effects on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
4.Homing Beacon #61: Episode II Easter Eggs on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
5.dreams & visions press on www.dreamsandvisionspress.com (archived from the original on March 31, 2021)
•Ken Ralston on Wikipedia
•Ken Ralston at the Internet Movie Database
Kenneth Ralston is an American visual effects artist, currently the Visual Effect Supervisor and Creative Head at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Ralston began his career at the commercial animation and visual effects company, Cascade Pictures in Hollywood, where he worked on over 150 advertising campaigns in the early 1970s.
May 6, 2020 · What hasn’t Ken Ralston done? Whether talking through his early days working on the Original Trilogy, Wrath of Khan , Search for Spock and a host of Bob Zemeckis classics (including the Back to the Future trilogy), Mr. Ralston is full of incredible, historic stories, a living legend.
Academy Award-winner Ken Ralston was a leading pioneer in the specialized field of visual effects, creating some of cinema's most breathtaking moments for acclaimed filmmakers like George Lucas and Robert Zemeckis. Beginning as a founding member of Lucasfilm's effects division Industrial Light &...
Full name, Kenneth Ralston; born 1954. Addresses: Office: Sony Pictures Imageworks, Inc., 9050 West Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232.; Agent: Paul Hook, International Creative Management, 8942 Wilshire Blvd., BeverlyHills, CA 90211. Gender Male Occupation Visual effects artist, camera operator, director Famous Works. CREDITS; Film Work
