We are Academy Award winning creators of special characters and character effects. Calling upon a diverse range of talents and techniques, we create prosthetic make-ups, animatronic puppets, actor duplicates and replica animals. With over twenty-five years of professional experience, we bring "real" character effects to the set to interact with actors, lighting, and practical atmosphere. We pride ourselves on working with the industry's leading cgi companies to find the right balance of digital and practical effects. We continue to provide film-makers with realistic and economical character effects that best serve the story and the production.
Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. (ADI).
RESUMES
FILM COMMERCIAL BROADCAST MAKE-UP ANIMATRONIC APE
FEATURE FILMS
- TITLE
- DIRECTOR
- PRODUCTION / RELEASING
- MAZE RUNNER:THE DEATH CURE
- Wes Ball
- Gotham Group
- BATMAN VS SUPERMAN
- Zack Snyder
- Warner Brothers
- MAZE RUNNER:THE SCORCH TRIALS
- Wes Ball
- Gotham Group
- HARBINGER DOWN
- Alec Gillis
- Dark Dunes Productions
- FIRE CITY:END OF DAYS
- Tom Woodruff, Jr.
- Okey Be My Productions
- SAN ANDREAS
- Brad Peyton
- Village Roadshow Pictures
- PAUL BLART:MALL COP 2
- Andy Fickman
- Columbia Pictures
- ENDER’S GAME
- Gavin Hood
- Summit Entertainment
- PEARCY JACKSON:
SEA OF MONSTERS - Thor Freudenthal
- Fox 2000 Pictures
- PEARCY JACKSON:
- GROWN UPS 2
- Dennis Dugan
- Columbia Pictures
- ODD THOMAS
- Stephen Sommers
- Fusion Films
- JACK THE GIANT SLAYER
- Bryan Singer
- Legendary Pictures
- YELLOW
- Nick Cassavetes
- Medient Entertainment
- THE THING
- Matthijs vanHeijningen
- Universal Pictures
- ZOOKEEPER
- Frank Coraci
- Metro‐Goldwyn‐Mayer
- X‐MEN: FIRST CLASS
- Matthew Vaughn
- Twentieth Century Fox
- SKYLINE
- Colin Strause & Greg Strause
- Universal Pictures
- OLD DOGS
- Walt Becker
- Walt Disney Pictures
- CIRQUE du FREAK:
THE VAMPIRE’S ASSISTANT - Paul Weitz
- Universal Pictures
- CIRQUE du FREAK:
- G‐FORCE
- Hoyt Yeatman
- Walt Disney Pictures
- X‐MEN ORIGINS:
WOLVERINE - Gavin Hood
- Twentieth Century Fox
- X‐MEN ORIGINS:
- RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN
- Andy Fickman
- Walt Disney Pictures
- DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION
- James Wong
- Twentieth Century Fox
- LONELY STREET
- Peter Ettinger
- Inwood Street Productions
- THE INCREDIBLE HULK
- Louis Leterrier
- Universal Pictures
- AVPR: ALIENS VS PREDATOR REQUIEM
- Colin Strause & Greg Strause
- Universal Pictures
- WILD HOGS
- Walt Becker
- Touchstone
- SPIDER‐MAN3
- Sam Raimi
- Columbia Pictures
- ZODIAC
- David Fincher
- Paramount Pictures
- THE SANTA CLAUSE 3
- Michael Lembeck
- Walt Disney Pictures
- FAILURE TO LAUNCH
- Tom Dey
- Paramount Pictures
- ALPHA DOG
- Nick Cassavetes
- New Line
- ALL THE KING’S MEN
- Steven Zaillian
- Columbia Pictures
- ELEKTRA
- Rob Bowman
- Twentieth Century Fox
- AVP: ALIEN VS PREDATOR
- Paul Anderson
- Twentieth Century Fox
- SCARY MOVIE 3
- David Zucker
- Miramax / Dimension
- SPIDER‐MAN 2
- Sam Raimi
- Columbia Pictures
- LOONEY TUNES
BACK IN ACTION - Joe Dante
- Warner Brothers
- LOONEY TUNES
- THE SANTA CLAUSE 2
- Michael Lembeck
- Walt Disney Pictures
- SPIDER‐MAN
- Sam Raimi
- Columbia Pictures
- PANIC ROOM
- David Fincher
- Columbia Pictures
- JOHN Q.
- Nick Cassevetes
- New Line Cinema
- BUBBLE BOY
- Blair Hayes
- Walt Disney Pictures
- EVOLUTION
- Ivan Reitman
- Dreamworks
- BEDAZZLED
- Harold Ramis
- Twentieth Century Fox
- THE 6TH DAY
- Roger Spottiswoode
- Sony Pictures
- NUTTY PROFESSOR 2
- Peter Segal
- Universal Studios
- HOLLOW MAN
Academy Award nomination - Paul Verhoeven
- Columbia Pictures
- HOLLOW MAN
- CAST AWAY
- Bob Zemeckis
- Dreamworks
- WONDER BOYS
- Curtis Hanson
- Paramount Pictures
- THE ASTRONAUT'S WIFE
- Rand Ravich
- New Line Cinema
- MY FAVORITE MARTIAN
- Donald Petrie
- Walt Disney Pictures
- THE X‐FILES (feature)
- Rob Bowman
- Twentieth Century Fox
- ALIEN: RESURRECTION
- Jean Pierre Jeunet
- Twentieth Century Fox
- STARSHIP TROOPERS
Academy Award nomination - Paul Verhoeven
- TriStar Pictures
- STARSHIP TROOPERS
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- MICHAEL
- Nora Ephron
- Turner Pictures
- JUMANJI
- Joe Johnston
- TriStar Pictures
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- THE SANTA CLAUSE
- John Pasquin
- Walt Disney Pictures
- MORTAL KOMBAT
- Paul Anderson
- New Line Cinema
- WOLF
- Mike Nichols
- Columbia Pictures
- DEMOLITION MAN
- Marco Brambilla
- Warner Brothers
- DEATH BECOMES HER
Academy Award winner - Bob Zemeckis
- Universal Studios
- DEATH BECOMES HER
- ALIEN3
Academy Award nomination - David Fincher
- Twentieth Century Fox
- ALIEN3
- POINT BREAK
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Largo Entertainment
- THE GRIFTERS
- Stephen Frears
- Miramax Films
- TREMORS
- Ron Underwood
- Universal Studios
Alec Gillis
As a kid, Alec Gillis’ father told stories of makeup great Dick Smith, and Effects wizard Gene Warren, Sr. Having sold Dick Smith an insurance policy in the 50’s, and having an aunt that dated the elder Mr.Warren made his father somewhat of an expert in Special Effects, at least in young Alec’s eyes. With a burning curiosity about the tricks of filmmaking, Alec decided, at age thirteen, to pursue a career in Creature Effects.
FULL BIOGRAPHY : PDF IMDbPRO INSTAGRAMTom Woodruff, Jr.
Born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1959, much of Tom's early interest in movies and monsters was a result of late‐night broadcasts of the now classic Universal monster movies and the stop‐motion effects of Ray Harryhausen. Finally, seeing one of the Planet of the Apes films in a theater focused his attention on the craft of make‐up, while getting his hands on his father's 8mm home movie camera at 13 years old ...
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