ILWUG Announces Interview with Doug Drexler

The International LightWave 3D User Group while being online for a short time we have talked to ground breaking artists such as Rob Powers, Sean Jackson, Gary Hutzel, Jesse Toves and Daniel L. Smith.

This weekend we continue that series of amazing artists interviews with the legendary Doug Drexler.

Doug Drexler, born in New York City, is a visual effects artist, designer, sculptor, illustrator, and an academy award-winning makeup artist who has collaborated with such talents as Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, James Caan, Meryl Streep, and Warren Beatty. He began his career in the entertainment industry working for makeup legend Dick Smith on such films as The Hunger and Starman. He has also contributed to Three Men and a Little Lady, The Cotton Club, FX, Manhunter and Dick Tracy.

Dick Tracy earned Drexler an Oscar, as well as The British Academy Award and the Saturn Award for his special makeup effects on characters such as Big Boy Caprice (played by Pacino) and Mumbles (played by Hoffman). Two Emmy nominations in the same field followed for three years working on Star Trek: The Next Generation, where he performed such tasks as aging Captain Picard for “The Inner Light”.

In 1992 Drexler made a career change by moving over to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as designer, digital artist and effects artist. He continued in that capacity on the subsequent Star Trek films as well as Star Trek: Voyager.

In April 2001 Drexler worked as senior Illustrator and CGI designer on the fifth Star Trek series, Enterprise. Following Enterprise, Doug was hired by renowned Visual Effects Supervisor Gary Hutzel as CG Supervisor on Battlestar Galactica. Doug won two Emmy Awards and a Visual Effects Society Award for Galactica.

Other Credits and Information on Doug Drexler:

Prosthetic character makeup

1982 The Hunger 1983 The Cotton Club 1984 Starman 1985 FX 1985 Heartburn 1985 Manhunter 1986 Making Mr. Right 1987 Poltergeist III 1988 Liberace 1988 Dick Tracy 1990 Three Men and a Little Lady 1990 True Identity 1991 For the Boys 1990-1993 Star Trek: The Next Generation

Design

1993-1999 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 1994 Star Trek Generations 1996 Star Trek First Contact 1998 Star Trek Insurrection 1998 Buckaroo Banzai: Ancient Secrets and New Mysteries (unproduced TV series) 2001-2004 Star Trek: Enterprise

Visual effects

1999 Starship Troopers, 1999-00 Star Trek: Voyager, 2000 Max Steel, 2000 Star Trek: The Motion Picture -Director’s Edition, 2001 Dan Dare, 2001-2004 Star Trek: Enterprise, 2004-2009 Battlestar Galactica, 2009 Caprica