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Hypernauts
''Hypernauts'' is a proof of concept show produced by Foundation Imaging and Netter Digital Entertainment. To further prove that the computer-generated imagery and visual effects created in ''Babylon 5'' were easily applied to other venues, the Hypernauts were born. ABC purchased thirteen episodes of the show from DIC Productions, L.P., eight of which ran on Saturday mornings for a single season in 1996 at 10:00 AM. ABC decided not to pick up the series for a second season, and did not air the five remaining episodes. The show was created and produced by Ron Thornton and Douglas Netter, its executive story editor was Christy Marx, who also wrote four episodes. Marx had previously written for both ''Babylon 5'' and '' Captain Power''. Another series writer was Katherine Lawrence who was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award due to her script for ''Ice Bound''. Plot Due to its lineage, ''Hypernauts'' featured relatively detailed designs of its technology and its al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypernauts
''Hypernauts'' is a proof of concept show produced by Foundation Imaging and Netter Digital Entertainment. To further prove that the computer-generated imagery and visual effects created in ''Babylon 5'' were easily applied to other venues, the Hypernauts were born. ABC purchased thirteen episodes of the show from DIC Productions, L.P., eight of which ran on Saturday mornings for a single season in 1996 at 10:00 AM. ABC decided not to pick up the series for a second season, and did not air the five remaining episodes. The show was created and produced by Ron Thornton and Douglas Netter, its executive story editor was Christy Marx, who also wrote four episodes. Marx had previously written for both ''Babylon 5'' and '' Captain Power''. Another series writer was Katherine Lawrence who was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award due to her script for ''Ice Bound''. Plot Due to its lineage, ''Hypernauts'' featured relatively detailed designs of its technology and its al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christy Marx
Christy Marx is an American scriptwriter, author, and game designer, especially narrative designer. She is best known for her work on various TV series including '' Jem'', ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'', '' Conan the Adventurer'', ''G.I. Joe'', ''Hypernauts'', and ''Captain Power''. She is also known for her comic book work, including her original comic book series ''Sisterhood of Steel'' as well as work on '' Conan'', ''Red Sonja'', and '' Elfquest''. Marx has also authored several biographies and history books. Career Marx's first published work in the comics industry was "Master of Shadows", a 17-page Red Sonja story in Savage Sword of Conan #45, October, 1979. She would make her debut in the gaming industry with both writing and designing with ''Conquests of Camelot'' in 1990, and followed it with the sequel '' Conquests of the Longbow''. She began working at Zynga in late 2010, where she continued to work with games such as '' Hidden Chronicles''. She left the company in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Dobro
Carrie Dobro (born May 30, 1957) is an United States of America, American actress. She is best known for her leading role as Crusade (TV series)#Cast, Dureena Nafeel in the ''Babylon 5'' feature-length film ''Babylon 5: A Call to Arms, A Call To Arms'' and its short-lived spin-off TV series ''Crusade (TV series), Crusade''. Carrie played the character of Kulai on the ABC TV series ''Hypernauts''. She has also guest starred on numerous other television shows such as ''Beverly Hills, 90210'', ''Nightstand'', ''Townies'', ''Silk Stalkings'', and ''The Young and the Restless''. She played Jenna Stannis in the new ''Blake's 7 (audio drama), Blake's 7'' audio plays. Hyperleap, retrieved 02 February 2022 References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Lawrence
Katherine "Kathy" Lawrence (December 11, 1954 – March 25, 2004) was a television series screenwriter and a short story science fiction and children's non-fiction educational books and video game writer. Biography Lawrence was born Katherine Selbert on December 11, 1954. She chose her writing name because of her love for T. E. Lawrence and Jerome Lawrence. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in the English language from the University of Washington in Seattle and suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome. In 1996, she was nominated for Outstanding Script by the Writers Guild of America for "Icebound", an episode of ''Hypernauts'', a live-action science fiction series. On March 27, 2004, her body was found at San Pedro River in Arizona, along with a suicide note. Lawrence was 49 years old, and her death was apparently caused by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Her ashes were spread over Mount Lemmon, which was her favorite area. Writing credits Television *''Dungeons & Drago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi Lucas
Heidi Lucas (born June 3, 1977) is an American attorney and former teen actress. Biography During the early 1990s, Lucas played Dina Alexander on Nickelodeon's ''Salute Your Shorts'', which ran from 1991 to 1992. In 1992 she appeared in the 'Fantasy Dating Game' Girls' Club. Created for the Philip's CD-I, Imagination Machine, it allowed girls to go on interactive dates with thirty of the 'coolest guys in the universe'. In 1993, she won the Young Artist Award for best young actress to co-star in a cable series for her role. She also played Noriko "Max" Matsuda in the 1996 sci-fi series ''Hypernauts''. By 1998, Lucas quit acting, pursuing higher education instead. She currently lives in Arizona and works as an attorney. In 2015, she reunited with most of her ''Salute Your Shorts'' cast at Portland, Oregon's Everything is Festival. Filmography Television Lucas appeared in numerous video shorts as well as in the 1992 film ''Ghost Ship''. She also appeared in major commercials fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Johnston (director)
Jim R. Johnston is an American television director and actor. He is best known for his directing work on Babylon 5 and Tour of Duty For military personnel, a tour of duty is usually a period of time spent in combat or in a hostile environment. In an army, for instance, soldiers on active duty serve 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the length of their service commitment. ...." Filmography Television References External links * American television directors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Tv-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Arquette
Lewis Michael Arquette (December 14, 1935 – February 10, 2001) was an American film actor, writer, and producer. Arquette was known for playing J.D. Pickett on the television series ''The Waltons'', on which he worked from 1978 to 1981. Life and career Arquette was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Mildred Nesbitt Le May and actor Cliff Arquette. He was related to explorer Meriwether Lewis, for whom he was named. His family's surname was originally "Arcouet", coming from his partial French-Canadian ancestry. His children are actors Patricia, Alexis, Rosanna, David, and Richmond Arquette. He is the former father-in-law of actress Courteney Cox, film composer James Newton Howard, and actors Thomas Jane and Nicolas Cage. Arquette frequently appeared in movies with his sons. While living in Chicago, Arquette managed The Second City theater for several years. In 1970, the family moved to a Subud commune (described by Patricia as a "hippie commune") in Front Royal, Virginia. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Netter
Douglas Netter (May 23, 1921 – May 8, 2017) was a United States television industry executive, his credits largely being in the field of science fiction. He was first credited as associate producer of the 1967 Matt Helm ( Dean Martin) movie '' The Ambushers'' which involved a US-government built flying saucer. Biography Between 1970 and 1975 Netter was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at MGM Studios. It was a controversial period at the studio with many filmmakers unhappy with the treatment they received from Netter and studio president James Aubrey. In 1975 he produced the Dean Martin crime movie '' Mr. Ricco'', and in 1978 was co-producer of the African mercenary movie ''The Wild Geese''. The next year he began a period when he concentrated on the Western genre, producing ''The Sacketts'', a TV miniseries based on Louis L'Amour's Sackett family and serving as executive producer of the NBC TV movie ''Buffalo Soldiers''. Over the next two years he also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry DiTillio
Lawrence G. DiTillio (February 15, 1948 – March 16, 2019) was an American film, TV series, and tabletop role-playing game writer. His creations include ''He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword'' and the award-winning ''Masks of Nyarlathotep''. Education Larry DiTillio attended the film school at New York University for four years. He then spent an additional two years at UCLA's film school. Career After graduating, DiTillio decided to make a career as a Hollywood writer. He knocked on agency doors until he was able to find an agent willing and able to find him work as a film writer. DiTillio wrote for both television and movies in the 1970s, including a stint on Filmation's ''Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids''. He then became a staff writer for the original ''He-Man and the Masters of the Universe'' series and over its two seasons, wrote 17 episodes, more than anyone else. He also directed one episode. During a writers' strike in 1983, DiTillio searched for other ways to gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foundation Imaging
Foundation Imaging was a CGI visual effects studio, computer animation studio, and post-production editing facility. History The company was founded by Paul Beigle-Bryant and Ron Thornton. It pioneered digital imaging for television programming using Newtek's LightWave 3D, originally on Commodore Amiga based Video Toaster workstations. Dissolution The company was dissolved after work on season one of ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' had been completed and the company assets were sold off in a public auction on December 17, 2002 by Brian Testo Associates, LLC. Legacy The company's pioneering work on Babylon 5 popularized using the software package Lightwave 3D on US TV shows for CGI visual effects, which led to it becoming an industry standard throughout the 1990s. Key animators from the company and Emmy Award-winners Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz and John Teska remain major figures in the visual effects field for their work on shows such as the rebooted Battlestar Galactica and Lost. Notabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Thornton (visual Effects Designer)
Ron Thornton (1957–2016) was a pioneer in the field of computer-generated visual effects for film and television. He is best known for pioneering the use of Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) in the industry, through his work on the ''Babylon 5'' series, which was the first television series to use CGI for all its visual effects. Thornton and his team won an Emmy award in 1993 for their work in the field. During his career, Thornton also worked with teams providing visual effects for many major science fiction productions, including ''Doctor Who'', ''Blake's 7'', ''Star Trek'', and ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. Early career Thornton was born in London in 1957, studying at West Kent College, and subsequently worked at Gatwick Airport as a flight dispatcher. After seeing the movie ''Alien'', Thornton realised, "it dawned on me … that somebody could actually make money building plastic spaceships! That was quite amusing to me…" Thornton built a few spaceship models, showin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netter Digital
Netter Digital Entertainment (NDE) was a visual effects and CGI special effects company founded in 1995 and went out of business in 2000. History Netter Digital Entertainment was created by Douglas Netter in 1995. The company produced the show Hypernauts before moving to digital EFX work and replacing Foundation Imaging in the final two seasons of ''Babylon 5'' as the sole producer of CGI special effects for that series as well as several of the B5 Made-For-TV movies. NDE also produced all the effects for its short-lived spinoff, ''Crusade''. With the cancellation of ''Crusade'' in 1999, Netter Digital lost its only client. They subsequently worked on the ''Dan Dare'', ''Max Steel'', and '' Robotech 3000'' animated television series, but this was not enough to prevent them going out of business in 2000. They were replaced on ''Dan Dare'' and ''Max Steel'' by Foundation Imaging Foundation Imaging was a CGI visual effects studio, computer animation studio, and post-productio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |