MEN IN BLACK 3 Production Notes - Visual Hollywood

MEN IN BLACK 3 (2012)PRODUCTION NOTESPrior to joining Imageworks, Ralston placed his artistic and technical stamp on the films atIndustrial Light & Magic. Breaking technological ground, Ralston played a pivotal role inadvancing the company's renown.Ralston has earned an impressive five Academy Awards®including a Special AchievementOscar®for the visual effects in the 1984 phenomenon, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of theJedi. In addition to this, he received Academy Awards® for Best Visual Effects for his work asvisual effects supervisor on Forrest Gump (which was also awarded the Oscar® for BestPicture), Death Becomes Her, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Ron Howard's Cocoon.Ralston's other notable film credits include visual effects supervisor on The Rocketeer, Jumanji,Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek III: The Search For Spock, Star Trek II: The WrathOf Khan, Dragonslayer, for which he was also nominated for an Oscar®, and all three filmsfrom the Back to the Future trilogy, earning an Academy Award® nomination for best visualeffects on Back to the Future II.Ralston's career began at the seminal commercial animation and visual effects company, CascadePictures in Hollywood, where he worked on over 150 memorable advertising campaigns in theearly seventies. He built sets, sculpted models, animated puppets, created optical effects and stopmotion animation for such iconic commercial characters as Poppin' Fresh, the Pillsbury DoughBoy, and The Jolly Green Giant.Jay Redd (Visual Effects Supervisor) is a visual effects supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks.Redd recently completed visual effects supervision on three Looney Tunes CG shorts: "RabidRider," "Fur of Flying," and "Coyote Falls. "Redd spent more than a decade at Sony Pictures Imageworks, during which time he served as thevisual effects supervisor on the Academy Award® nominated animated feature Monster Houseand Walt Disney Pictures' The Haunted Mansion.Previously, Redd was digital effects supervisor on Stuart Little 2 and honored with the VESAward (Visual Effects Society) for Best Character Animation in an Animated Film.Redd is also credited with helping to create the title character for the first Stuart Little film.Stuart became the first fully CG lead character in a live-action film and as a result of this effort,Stuart Little received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Visual Effects.He joined Sony Pictures Imageworks in August 1996 to work on the Robert Zemeckis filmContact. An amateur astronomer, Redd was the perfect candidate to create the film's openingshot, a 4710 frame, 3-minute-and-19-second journey from the Earth to the end of the knownuniverse. This opening sequence was the first digital animation shot to be nominated for anAnnie Award.Before his arrival at Imageworks, Redd spent four years at Rhythm & Hues where he worked asa CG supervisor on numerous commercials, theme park rides and feature films such as theWaterworld and Academy Award®-winning Babe.© 2012 Columbia Pictures (Sony) 28