DYKSTRA SWITCHES GEARS
Mon, Mar 14, 2005
Academy Award winning visual effects designer John Dykstra has passed on Spider-Man 3 in order to handle visual effects duties for director McG’s Hot Wheels. ”I will miss all of the terrific people I worked with on Spider-Man,” announced Dykstra. ”But this is a great opportunity. I’m an adrenaline junkie; it’s an avocation. And what’s cool about Hot Wheels is it allows us to explore the language of cars %u2013 from Formula One, to tuners, hot rods, classics, dinosaur cars, monster trucks and so on.” Dykstra worked on the first two Spider-Man films and won an Academy Award for the visual effects on Spider-Man 2. Fellow Academy Award winner Scott Stokdyk who worked as visual effects supervisor on Spider-Man 2, will take over for Dykstra on Spider-Man 3.
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