PAUL HUSTON Senior Matte Artist - INDUSTRIAL LIGHT + MAGIC 

Owner:  PAUL HUSTON - Industrial Light + Magic / Medium: Colored Pencil and Marker Pen on heavy, acid free paper / Year: 2004 / © Copyright: Mark Raats

Paul Huston joined Industrial Light & Magic for the first Star Wars film doing work as a story board artist and modelmaker. Since then he has worked at ILM as a

modelmaker, cameraman and visual effects art director. He has worked extensively with the ILM matte department throughout his career and has played an

integral role in the transition from traditional matte to digital matte painting. As a senior digital matte artist, he supervises the work of other matte artists.

 Huston has earned two Emmy Nominations and an Emmy Award for Highest Achievement in Visual Effects as a digital matte artist for The Young Indiana

Jones Chronicles; and in 1993 won an Association of Independent Commercial Producers/Museum of Modern Art (AICP/MOMA) Production Design Award

for his work on British Petroleum's "Elevator." In January of 1994, Huston worked on the Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition in creating new shots for scenes

in Mos Eisley and Obi-Wan Kenobi's house on the Dune Sea. Huston painstakingly matched his Special Edition artwork with the original print of Star Wars

to allow new CG creatures, characters, and vehicles to populate scenes in the way George Lucas originally intended. In 2003 he received the Visual Effects

Society - Best Matte Painting in a Theatrical Motion Picture Award for his work on StarWars Episode II : Attack of the Clones.. Huston graduated with honors

from the University of Colorado College of Environmental Design, with minors in English and Fine Art. His post-graduate work was done at the Art Center

College of Design, Los Angeles and at the Academy of Art College, San Francisco.

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