John Dykstra

John Charles Dykstra ASC ˈdaɪkstrə born June 3 1947 is an American special effects artist a pioneer in developing computers in filmmaking and a recipient of three Academy Awards among many other awards and prizes He was one of the original employees of Industrial Light Magic the special effects and computer graphics division of Lucasfilm He is well known as the special effects lead on the original Star Wars helping bring the original visuals for lightsabers space battles between Xwings and TIE fighters and Force powers to the screen He also led special effects on many other movies including Batman Forever Batman Robin Stuart Little XMen First Class SpiderMan and SpiderMan 2 Description above from the Wikipedia article John Dykstra licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia