![]() ![]() Michael and his wife Melissa Bachrach live in Los Angeles. Join Facebook to connect with Michael Fink and others you may know. Michael D Fink was born on Decemand is about to turn or has already turned 69. He is a founding member, Board member, and a Fellow of the Visual Effects Society. Michael continues to do 2 nd unit directing, visual effects supervision, and consulting on visual effects, animation, and 3D projects. Michael is a Professor at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, where he holds the George Méliès Endowed Chair in Visual Effects. Michael was happy to contribute to the Academy Award winning film “Life of Pi” in 2012, working with BUF Compagnie on a 1½ minute sequence known as Tiger Vision, which was often cited in reviews of the film as a seminal moment in the story, establishing the strong bond between Pi and Richard Parker, the tiger. The film combined live action, animation, and visual effects in nearly every cut. In 2008, Michael received an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, and a BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects for the film “The Golden Compass”. Michael was honored in October 2001 at the Premio Immagine in Milan, Italy for his contribution to the art and science of digital filmmaking. In 1993, Michael directed the first Coca-Cola "Polar Bear" spot, which may be the first public showing of a computer graphic creature with three-dimensional fur. In that film he supervised the creation of the first photo-real computer graphic creatures in a feature film that faithfully replicated existing, living, beings (penguins and bats). Michael received an Academy Award nomination and BAFTA Award nomination for “Batman Returns” in 1993. Michael produced and directed for Sony a real-time composited live action and animation short which was the first demonstration of real-time integration of computer graphics with high definition video in 1989 (Symbolics and Sony HDTV). In 1988, Michael saw Kirk Gibson hit the game winning home run in the first game of the World Series between the Dodgers and the Oakland A's. During the very early years of digital animation and visual effects, on films such as “Buckaroo Banzai” and “Project X”, Michael innovated novel ways to integrate computer graphics with live action and traditional visual effects. Michael received his first Visual Effects Supervisor credit on "War Games” in 1982. Michael started his film career on “The China Syndrome”, followed shortly by films such as “Star Trek – The Motion Picture”, and “Blade Runner”. Michael has earned degrees from California State University Northridge, San Francisco Art Institute, and California Institute of the Arts, in an attempt to leave behind a checkered past that included stints as an Army officer, a money manager, and a studio artist and photographer. Mitchell Business of Cinematic Arts Program John Wells Division of Writing for Screen & Television.Brandon Hynick (Shea), and Amanda, Rebecca, W. Hench Division of Animation + Digital Arts View Mary Josephine Mary Jo Finks obituary, contribute to their memorial. ![]()
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