Tom Bertino

Tom Bertino is a professional animator, formerly Animation Director and Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic.

Life

He graduated from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1981. Tom Bertino joined Industrial Light & Magic in 1986 as a Supervisor of the Rotoscope Department. Bertino later moved into the Animation Department. and contributed his talents to a number of feature films including: Star Wars, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Death Becomes Her, The Abyss, The Mask, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.^[1][2]

Beginning his professional animation career with Sally Cruikshank in 1978, Bertino has worked for Nepenthe, DiC, Hanna-Barbera and Colossal Pictures in a number of capacities including character design, storyboards, layouts, voices and sound effects.

In 1995, Bertino was nominated for an Academy Award for best achievement in visual effects and received a BAFTA nomination in the same category, for the groundbreaking computer graphics imagery he created in The Mask.^[3]

In 2005, Bertino left ILM and became the Director of the Graduate Department of the School of Animation at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.^[4]

Filmography

• Son of the Mask (2005) (animation supervisor: ILM)
• Men in Black II (2002) (animation supervisor)
• The Time Machine (2002) (animation supervisor: ILM)
• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) (animation supervisor: ground battle, ILM)
• Flubber (1997) (visual effects supervisor)
• 101 Dalmatians (1996) (character animation supervisor: ILM)
• The Mask (1994) (animation supervisor)
• Death Becomes Her (1992) (rotoscope supervisor: ILM)
• Hook (1991) (rotoscope artist)
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) (rotoscope supervisor)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) (rotoscoping supervisor: ILM)
• The Rocketeer (1991) (rotoscope supervisor)
• Backdraft (1991) (rotoscope artist: ILM)
• Switch (1991) (rotoscope supervisor)
• The Doors (1991) (rotoscope supervisor: ILM) (as Tom Vertino)
• Ghost (1990) (rotoscope supervisor: ILM)
• Back to the Future Part III (1990) (rotoscope supervisor)
• Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) (animation supervisor)
• The Hunt for Red October (1990) (rotoscoper: ILM)
• Back to the Future Part II (1989) (rotoscope supervisor: ILM)
• Ghostbusters II (1989) (animation supervisor: ILM)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (rotoscope artist)
• Cocoon: The Return (1988) (roto supervisor: ILM)
• Caddyshack II (1988) (rotoscoper: ILM)
• Willow (1988) (rotoscope supervisor: ILM)
• Innerspace (1987) (rotoscope technician: ILM)
• Howard the Duck (1986) (rotoscope: ILM visual effects unit) ^[5]

Art Department - filmography

• Brandy & Mr. Whiskers (Storyboard artist)

Director - filmography

• Work In Progress (2000) ILM

Miscellaneous Crew - filmography

• The Plague Dogs (1982) (tracing)

Himself - filmography

"HBO First Look"

• Son of the Mask (2005) TV Episode (Himself)
• Cartoon Logic (2005) (V) (Himself)
• Return to Edge City (2005) (V) (Himself)

References

1. "Tom Bertino". IMDb.
2. "NOVA Online | Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond | Tom Bertino". PBS.
3. "Tom Bertino". Archived from the original on 2004-10-21.
4. "Academy of Art University School of Animation & Visual Effects Faculty". academyart.edu. Academy of Art University. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
5. The New York Times Movies