American animator
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
Art Department - filmography
Director - filmography
- Work In Progress (2000) ILM
Miscellaneous Crew - filmography
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
