MITCHELL, Jim

(James Mitchell, James D. Mitchell)

PERSONAL

Full name, James D. Mitchell.

Career:

Special effects artist. Industrial Light and Magic, storyboard designer, computer graphics artist and animator, character designer, special effects artist, and visual effects technician.

Awards, Honors:

Golden Satellite Award nomination (with others), International Press Academy, outstanding visual effects, 1997, for Mars Attacks!; Academy Award nomination, best visual effects, and Saturn Award nomination, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, best special effects, both with others, 1999, for Mighty Joe Young; Film Award nomination, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, best achievement in special visual effects, Golden Satellite Award nomination, best visual effects, and Saturn Award nomination, best special effects, all with others, 2000, for Sleepy Hollow; Golden Satellite Award nomination, best visual effects, and Saturn Award nomination (with others), best special effects, both 2002, for Jurassic Park III; Film Award nomination, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, best achievement in special visual effects, and Saturn Award nomination, best special effects, both with others, 2003, for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

CREDITS

Film Work; Visual Effects Supervisor:

(As James Mitchell) Mars Attacks!, Warner Bros., 1996.

(As James D. Mitchell) Contact, Warner Bros., 1997.

(With others) Mighty Joe Young (also known as Mighty Joe), Buena Vista, 1998.

October Sky, MCA/Universal, 1999.

Sleepy Hollow, Paramount, 1999.

Jurassic Park III (also known as JP3), MCA/Universal, 2001.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Warner Bros., 2002.

The Day after Tomorrow, Twentieth Century–Fox, 2004.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Warner Bros., 2005.

Film Computer Graphics Work:

Computer graphics animator, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Paramount, 1991.

(As James D. Mitchell) Computer graphics technical assistant, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (also known as T2, T2: Extreme Edition, T2—Terminator 2: Judgment Day, T2: Ultimate Edition, El exterminator 2, and Terminator 2—Le jugement dernier), TriStar, 1991.

(As James D. Mitchell) Computer graphics artist, Jurassic Park (also known as JP), Universal, 1993.

Computer graphics sequences supervisor, The Mask, New Line Cinema, 1994.

(As James D. Mitchell) Computer graphics sequences, Jumanji, TriStar, 1995.

Film Work; Other:

Assistant animator, The Black Cauldron (animated; also known as Taran and the Magic Cauldron), Buena Vista, 1985.

Character designer, Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz (animated short film), Atlantic–Kushner–Locke, 1987.

(As James D. Mitchell) Visual effects worker, Death Becomes Her, Universal, 1992.

Special effects assistant, Ed and His Dead Mother (also known as Bon appetit, Mama and Motherhood), IRS Media/Pathfinder Pictures, 1993.

RECORDINGS

Videos:

Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend (documentary short), Mandalay Pictures/Paramount, 2000.

Beyond Jurassic Park, Universal Studios Home Video, 2001.

The Making of "Jurassic Park III" (documentary short), Universal Studios Home Video, 2001.

The Special Effects of "Jurassic Park III" (documentary short), Universal Studios Home Video, 2001.