Extracted from an interview with Dan Curry you can read at:
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/community/chat/archive/transcript/1394.html
While I was in grad school, an influential person in the film industry happened to see an exhibition of paintings, found me, and suggested I look into matte painting.
On that person’s recommendation Universal Studios hired me to do matte paintings for Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie and others. When I left Universal, I went to work as art director for Modern Film Effects…. then I went on to Cinema Research Corporation…. as vice president and director of creative services. During that time, I was involved with a hundred and seventeen feature films and over 40 television productions. I left CRC to join Star Trek 12 years ago and have been concentrating on Star Trek ever since.
Another article about Dan Curry with samples of his pictorical art. http://www.cgnetworks.com/story_custom.php?story_id=2749&page=
Dan Curry with one of the painting he made for TV Series Galactica.
Filmography:
- Enterprise: Broken Bow (2001) (TV) (visual effects producer)
- “Enterprise” (2001) TV Series (visual effects producer)
- “Star Trek: Voyager” (1995) TV Series (visual effects producer)
- Star Trek: Voyager – Caretaker (1995) (TV) (visual effects producer)
- “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” (1993) TV Series (visual effects producer) (visual effects supervisor)
- “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (1987) TV Series (visual effects coordinator) (visual effects supervisor)
- Creepshow (1982) (matte painting)
- Caveman (1981) (matte artist)
- Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie (1980) (matte artist)
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)(Tv series) (matte artist)
- Battlestar galactica (1978) (tv series)(matte artist)