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.[1][2]
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.[3]
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.[4]
Filmography
- Son of the Mask (2005) (animation supervisor: ILM)
- Men in Black II (2002) (animation supervisor)
- The Time Machine (2002) (animation supervisor: ILM)
- Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) (animation supervisor: ground battle, ILM)
- Flubber (1997) (visual effects supervisor)
- 101 Dalmatians (1996) (character animation supervisor: ILM)
- The Mask (1994) (animation supervisor)
- Death Becomes Her (1992) (rotoscope supervisor: ILM)
- Hook (1991) (rotoscope artist)
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) (rotoscope supervisor)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) (rotoscoping supervisor: ILM)
- The Rocketeer (1991) (rotoscope supervisor)
- Backdraft (1991) (rotoscope artist: ILM)
- Switch (1991) (rotoscope supervisor)
- The Doors (1991) (rotoscope supervisor: ILM) (as Tom Vertino)
- Ghost (1990) (rotoscope supervisor: ILM)
- Back to the Future Part III (1990) (rotoscope supervisor)
- Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) (animation supervisor)
- The Hunt for Red October (1990) (rotoscoper: ILM)
- Back to the Future Part II (1989) (rotoscope supervisor: ILM)
- Ghostbusters II (1989) (animation supervisor: ILM)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (rotoscope artist)
- Cocoon: The Return (1988) (roto supervisor: ILM)
- Caddyshack II (1988) (rotoscoper: ILM)
- Willow (1988) (rotoscope supervisor: ILM)
- Innerspace (1987) (rotoscope technician: ILM)
- Howard the Duck (1986) (rotoscope: ILM visual effects unit) [5]
Art Department - filmography
- Brandy & Mr. Whiskers (Storyboard artist)
Director - filmography
- Work in Progress (2000) ILM
Miscellaneous Crew - filmography
- The Plague Dogs (1982) (tracing)
Himself - filmography
"HBO First Look"
- Son of the Mask (2005) TV Episode (Himself)
- Cartoon Logic (2005) (V) (Himself)
- Return to Edge City (2005) (V) (Himself)