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Production Information:
The show aired on Fox Network, on Sundays at 19:00 (1995-1996) and a total of 22 (23 if you count the two hour pilot as two eps) episodes were produced.
The Pilot episode (movie) was filmed in Stockton, near Newcastle, a couple of hours out of Sydney, Australia. Additionally, the scenes on the airbase in the pilot were shot at the Royal Australian Air Force Base William(s)town, New South Wales. The regular season episodes were filmed in Los Angeles, California (US).
Producers: Herb Adelman (co-producer), Ken Dennis (associate), Daniel Dugan (coordinating), D. Howard Grigsby, Michael Lake (pilot episode), Tim McHugh, Glen Morgan (executive), James Wong (executive), Tom Towler (supervising), Stephen Zito (co-executive)
Original music: Shirley Walker, Kristopher Carter (additional music - uncredited)
Cinematography: David Eggby (pilot episode), Gordon Lonsdale , Anthony R. Palmieri
Film Editing: James Coblentz, George Potter, Ron Spang (pilot episode), Chris Willingham
Casting: Lisa Miller, Randy Stone
Glen Morgan
James Wong
Glen Campbell
Tim McHugh
The show aired on Fox Network, on Sundays at 19:00 (1995-1996) and a total of 22 (23 if you count the two hour pilot as two eps) episodes were produced.
The Pilot episode (movie) was filmed in Stockton, near Newcastle, a couple of hours out of Sydney, Australia. Additionally, the scenes on the airbase in the pilot were shot at the Royal Australian Air Force Base William(s)town, New South Wales. The regular season episodes were filmed in Los Angeles, California (US).
Producers: Herb Adelman (co-producer), Ken Dennis (associate), Daniel Dugan (coordinating), D. Howard Grigsby, Michael Lake (pilot episode), Tim McHugh, Glen Morgan (executive), James Wong (executive), Tom Towler (supervising), Stephen Zito (co-executive)
Original music: Shirley Walker, Kristopher Carter (additional music - uncredited)
Cinematography: David Eggby (pilot episode), Gordon Lonsdale , Anthony R. Palmieri
Film Editing: James Coblentz, George Potter, Ron Spang (pilot episode), Chris Willingham
Casting: Lisa Miller, Randy Stone
Glen Morgan
Since their sophomore year of high school
in San Diego Glen Morgan and Jim Wong have been friends. They
both attended Loyola Maymount University where Glen went into
film studies. He went from 21 Jump Street on to the X-Files as writer and producer, then to
Space: Above And Beyond, then back to The X-Files and finally
to MillenniuM.
He has two children and is married to actress Kristen Cloke since May 1998.
He has two children and is married to actress Kristen Cloke since May 1998.
James Wong
Also attending Loyola Maymont University
where he studied engineering until he realized that Glen got
all the fun and changed his majors to film making, too. Morgan
and Wong only started their liaison travail after they
had left university and they have teamed up on innumerous
pilots and series: The
X-Files, Millenium,
The Fantastic Voyage, The Wonder Cabinet and Space: Above And
Beyond.
Jim, as he is fondly called by friends, is currently inmidst the post-production of his first movie - Flight 180 (on release as Final Destination in March 17th 2000). He is married to Teena and has three children.
What is so little known is that while working for The X-Files Morgan and Wong have invented many characters we now all love, e.g. FBI Director Skinner and The Lone GunMen. Moreover, he and Glen Morgan created some of the most chilling and ripping episodes in season 4 and gave more depth to Scully and Mulder.
Jim, as he is fondly called by friends, is currently inmidst the post-production of his first movie - Flight 180 (on release as Final Destination in March 17th 2000). He is married to Teena and has three children.
What is so little known is that while working for The X-Files Morgan and Wong have invented many characters we now all love, e.g. FBI Director Skinner and The Lone GunMen. Moreover, he and Glen Morgan created some of the most chilling and ripping episodes in season 4 and gave more depth to Scully and Mulder.
Area 51
He created the stunning XFs of S:AAB and
is co-member of Area51. He is visual effects supervisor and
described the crew of Area 51 as a multi-tasking unit working
to create high-end effects for shows that include The
X-Files, Millenium,
Dark Skies and Buffy the
Vampire Slayer.
"We were definitely very lucky working on Space: Above and Beyond, and we'd love to do a movie, but I think somebody just did and called it Starship Troopers."
"We were definitely very lucky working on Space: Above and Beyond, and we'd love to do a movie, but I think somebody just did and called it Starship Troopers."
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Effects Supervisor: Glenn Campbell & Tim McHugh Digital Animation Supervisor: Ken Stranahan Visual Effects Co-ordinator: Claire Ragge Special Effects Purchaser: Greg C. Jensen Lead Visual Effects Artist: Matt Merkovich & Lee Stranahan Computer Animators/Visual Effects Artists: Karl Deham David Jones Brian Cox Scott Wheeler |
Hard and
Software used:
Dec Alphas and Pentiums. They used Lightwave, Photoshop, Elastic Reality, and a defunct program called Win-Images, a sort of precursor to After Effects.
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Tim McHugh
He was Space: Above and Beyond's visual
effects producer (and co-producer), he runs the company AREA51
Inc. together with Glenn Campbell and an experienced team of
effects professionals and computer animators.
He confessed in an interview that he was awed when his CGI graphics came to life in form of walk through props where you could take a tour from pit to tail through an ISSCV.
Tim McHugh on special effects: "It was a constant, ongoing process where Jim and Glen would send me a script and I'd look at it and start laughing and call them back and say, 'You're crazy, we can't possibly do this.' They'd cut two shots out and then we'd do it, and we'd add five more."
Scott Wheeler
Geoffrey Mandel
Bear Burge
John-Bro Wilkie
Please
visit his website to get infos on him and the other chigs. Chig
Memoirs
Kris Sorensen
He is ex-army and he has been an advisor as well as supporting actor in many series. He has created an own company who offers military back ground and technical suppor to movies and tv-series.
Kristian's Official Site
Australian
based modelmaker company The
Modelsmiths did the full scale Hammerhead
mock-up for the pilot episodes.
Additionally, they also did the flighthelmets and the M590 weapons. The weapons were actually fully functioning rifles made up as what we now know as M590s.
Bimmini
Special FX and Design Studios
The Chigs were designed by Patrick Tatopolous, and the job of creating them was originally given to Jason Baird, who then hired James Colmer, owner of Bimini, and a couple of other people to translate Patrick's designs into reality.
Bimini Official Site
Factory 3 / 32 Brendan Drive,
Nerang, Queensland, Australia
Tel / Fax: +617 55 200 456
Email: fx@bimmini.com
There was also an article in the SciFi & Fantasy Models issue #15 and it can be found on this site.
He confessed in an interview that he was awed when his CGI graphics came to life in form of walk through props where you could take a tour from pit to tail through an ISSCV.
Tim McHugh on special effects: "It was a constant, ongoing process where Jim and Glen would send me a script and I'd look at it and start laughing and call them back and say, 'You're crazy, we can't possibly do this.' They'd cut two shots out and then we'd do it, and we'd add five more."
Scott Wheeler
Being part of the Area51 Inc. crew, he
is one of the computer animators. He modelled and textured
many of the Chig ship designs. His trademark in the business
as well as in S:AAB is Lana, the name of his wife. It's
often hidden among the engine details of craft like the
ISSAPC. Those whimsical trademarks and scribbles, called
'nernies' in the effects business, serve to break up
otherwise plain ship models. Mrs Wheeler also appears aboard
the freighter MacArthur in the episode Mutiny, where her
birthday forms the ship's registration number.
Geoffrey Mandel
He designed the stunning logos, colour
schemes and graphic props, e.g. the GI-Geeked comic cover in
And If They Lay Us Down To
Rest.
He also did wonderful designs for the CGIs where he provided the colour schemes and texture of the later made CGI FX.
He also did wonderful designs for the CGIs where he provided the colour schemes and texture of the later made CGI FX.
Bear Burge
He constructed Space's props and also
worked on "Star Trek," "Babylon 5" and "SeaQuest".
The Chigs and the men behind them
Please
visit his website to get infos on him and the other chigs. Chig
Memoirs Kris Sorensen
He is ex-army and he has been an advisor as well as supporting actor in many series. He has created an own company who offers military back ground and technical suppor to movies and tv-series.
Kristian's Official Site
The Modelmakers
Australian
based modelmaker company The
Modelsmiths did the full scale Hammerhead
mock-up for the pilot episodes. Additionally, they also did the flighthelmets and the M590 weapons. The weapons were actually fully functioning rifles made up as what we now know as M590s.
| Chief
Modelmaker: David Tremont Modelmakers: Michael Daczynski Eric Backman Grant Radziwill Marcus Johnson Greg Martin |
Assistant
Modelmakers: Don Meiklejohn Glenn Ludgate Casting done by: Wayne Nelson |
Bimmini
Special FX and Design Studios The Chigs were designed by Patrick Tatopolous, and the job of creating them was originally given to Jason Baird, who then hired James Colmer, owner of Bimini, and a couple of other people to translate Patrick's designs into reality.
Bimini Official Site
Factory 3 / 32 Brendan Drive,
Nerang, Queensland, Australia
Tel / Fax: +617 55 200 456
Email: fx@bimmini.com
There was also an article in the SciFi & Fantasy Models issue #15 and it can be found on this site.