Michael Pangrazio
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Michael Pangrazio | |
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Born | Michael Pangrazio California, USA |
Nationality | American |
Notable work | "Indiana Jones" and "Star Wars" |
Movement | Realism |
Michael Pangrazio (commonly credited as Mike Pangrazio) is an American art director in the feature film industry best known for his matte painting work on Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back. As traditional and digital matte artist, he created some of the most famous matte paintings in movie history. His best known painting is the Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse interior set-extension at the end of the movie.
Career
After graduating high school Pangrazio worked as scenic artist for a television network[
The backdrops from most of the
After leaving ILM, Pangrazio co-founded Matte World Digital with Craig Barron in 1988. Barron and Pangrazio continued to work with the crew at ILM on notable matte-painting scenes in several classic feature films.
Pangrazio moved to Oregon with his family in 1994 in order to pursue his children's book illustration career. He contributed images to numerous book publications.[
In 2004 Pangrazio returned to the film industry and joined a world leading visual effects studio
Personal life
Michael Pangrazio is single and has had two children, Nathanael Pangrazio and Natalee Pangrazio. Michael's former wife Lynda's father was author and speaker Jim Rohn.
Publications
- Once Upon a Time: Treasury of Modern Fairy Tales
- Glim the Glorious, Or, How the Little Folk Bested the Gubgoblins
Awards and nominations
- Emmy for outstanding visual effects for By Dawn's Early Light in 1990.[2]
Achievements
- Star Wars (1977) - the tractor beam set.
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - the final shot of the government warehouse was painted on glass by Michael Pangrazio at Industrial Light and Magic, and combined with live-action footage of a government worker pushing the crate up the center aisle.
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) - Pankot Palace, Cliff, The Village (The Raider.Net article about the matte paintings)
- Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) - The first digital matte shot was created by Pangrazio and Christopher Leith Evans. A stained glass window was painted in acrylics then scanned into LucasFilm's Pixar computer system for digital manipulation. The computer-animated Stained-Glass Knight character (the first digitally created character in a motion picture) blended seamlessly with the window.
Further reading
Smith, Thomas G. (1986). Industrial Light and Magic: The Art of Special Effects. New York: Ballantine.
References
- ^ Nedomansky, Vashi (May 6, 2014). "Raiders of the Lost Ark – Matte Painting". VashiVisuals. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
- ^ "BY DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT". Television Academy. Retrieved 27 March 2019.