Engineering: A background in engineering — whether educational or experiential — can translate well to a career in special effects. Streett, for example, graduated from the University of ...

BURTT: Well, my interest in special effects goes back a lot further that my professional career. When I made films as a child, the very first film I ever did involved army men falling from buildings.

This obsession blossomed into a successful career as a special effects makeup artist, with a passion for creating realistic and gruesome effects. A mostly self-taught mastermind, Valentina ...

By Mike Barnes Harry Redmond Harry Redmond Jr., a special effects artist and producer whose career reached back more than 80 years to the dawn of talking pictures, died May 23 in the Hollywood ...

Richard Conway, a special effects supervisor who collaborated closely ... Conway began working in television in the 1960s, where he began his career working alongside Gerry Anderson.