Hoyt Yeatman
Hoyt Yeatman ( born January 23, 1955 in San Francisco, California) is an American film director who won an Oscar for his work as a visual effects specialist. He is a graduate of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
Life and work
Hoyt Yeatman was in 2009 as a director made his feature film debut with the action-packed family comedy G- Force - bite, which was created under the wing of Jerry Bruckheimer and where the new Disney Digital 3- D technology has been applied in a real film for the first time.
Yeatman founded in 1979 with Abdi Sami together the Dream Quest Images - a ground-breaking visual effect studio - that for the motion control and underwater effects in the movie Abyss - was responsible abyss of death (1989) and for which he in 1990 an Oscar got. Dream Quest was purchased in 1996 by the Walt Disney Company and renamed Disney's "The Secret Lab" in 1999. The Secret Lab 2002 closed its doors.
As a Visual Effect artist, he worked on many well-known films, such as on the fly which was nominated for the 1988 British Academy Film Award or Mighty Joe Young was nominated in 1999 for Best visual effects for an Oscar.
In his capacity as a visual effect specialist, he turned with Jerry Bruckheimer, a series of famous movies, including The Rock - Rock (1996 ), Con Air (1997) and Armageddon - The Last Judgment (1998). Yeatman, 1988 was involved and directed by Jerry Kramer and Colin Chilvers in the production of Moonwalker with pop star Michael Jackson, who was nominated for a Saturn Award in the category Best Special Effects.
Hoyt Yeatman is also under the name Hoyt H. Yeatman Jr., Hoyt Yeatman Jr. and Hoyt Yeatman Jr. appear in the credits.