Academy Award ® - winner Dean Semler returns as cinematographer with William Elliott returning as production designer, William Kerr returning as editor with special make -
up effects wizard and five - time Academy Award ® - winner Rick Baker and visual effects supervisor Jon Farhat also returning.
Making appearances are Don Hahn, Rob Minkoff, Mona May, Jay Redd, production designer Rob Myhre, make -
up effects wizard Rick Baker, visual effects producer Lynda Thomspon, and actors Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Tilly.
The sequences are actually designed by the same make
up effects wizard Rick Baker; but in this case rather than the fruits of physical labour being brought to the screen, it is all a bit of a CG unimpressive mess of cracking bones and sprouting hairs — like that guy you used to sit beside in school.
Make -
up effects wizard Rob Bottin — who'd previously worked on John Carpenter's The Thing and went on to do RoboCop and Total Recall, among others — makes magic things happen with prosthetics throughout.
Not exact matches
The Dino De Laurentiis 1976 reimagining where make -
up and special
effects wizard Rick Baker played Kong in a giant ape suit.
We're promised a lot of combat, then, a dash of magic and plenty of character drama, with Jones promising that the
effects wizards have cooked
up some impressive creatures.