SandyHouston
- Animator
- Visual effects
Sandy Houston's career in animation and visual effects has involved 70 plus movie projects — including animated classic Watership Down, visual effects landmark Jurassic Park, and Oscar-winners The Return of the King and King Kong. Along the way she has been on hand to watch computers become key tools in creating screen illusion.
Screenography
Biography
Sandy Houston's CV ranges from London to California to Wellington, and includes many projects that mark key turning points in the evolution of special effects — Young Sherlock Holmes, Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, Avatar. Having started in traditional hand-drawn animation, she was at company ILM as computers transformed the art of screen illusion, then returned to Wellington as Weta Digital was making its own contributions to the world of special effects.
“Something new gets developed, and you can do something completely different —something that you haven't seen before. We get excited working on it, so we know the audience is just going to be blown away.”