Tom Bertino
Tom Bertino is a professional animator, formerly Animation Director and Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic.
Life
He graduated from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1981.Tom Bertino joined Industrial Light & Magic in 1986 as a Supervisor of the Rotoscope Department. Bertino later moved into the Animation Department. and contributed his talents to a number of feature films including: Star Wars, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Death Becomes Her, The Abyss, The Mask, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Beginning his professional animation career with Sally Cruikshank in 1978, Bertino has worked for Nepenthe, DiC, Hanna-Barbera and Colossal Pictures in a number of capacities including character design, storyboards, layouts, voices and sound effects.
In 1995, Bertino was nominated for an Academy Award for best achievement in visual effects and received a BAFTA nomination in the same category, for the groundbreaking computer graphics imagery he created in The Mask.
In 2005, Bertino left ILM and became the Director of the Graduate Department of the School of Animation at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
Filmography
- Son of the Mask
- Men in Black II
- The Time Machine
- Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
- Flubber
- 101 Dalmatians
- The Mask
- Death Becomes Her
- Hook
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- The Rocketeer
- Backdraft
- Switch
- The Doors
- Ghost
- Back to the Future Part III
- Joe Versus the Volcano
- The Hunt for Red October
- Back to the Future Part II
- Ghostbusters II
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Cocoon: The Return
- Caddyshack II
- Willow
- Innerspace
- ''Howard the Duck''
Art Department - filmography
- ''Brandy & Mr. Whiskers''
Director - filmography
- Work In Progress ILM
Miscellaneous Crew - filmography
- ''The Plague Dogs''
Himself - filmography
- Son of the Mask TV Episode
- Cartoon Logic
- ''Return to Edge City''