Dorne Huebler

Dorne Huebler studied film and animation in Jules Engel's program at California Institute of the Arts. (BFA 1980, MFA 1983.) During that time, he completed three animated short films: "The Gameroom" (1978), "Ichym" (1979), & "Corpus Callosum" (1984) which won an assortment of awards at film festivals in the USA and Europe including a CINE Eagle, a student Academy Award (Southwest Region), and awards at Ann Arbor, New York Filmmaker's Expo, Athens, Sinking Creek, Montpelier (France), and Moen (Belgium). Professionally, Dorne has worked both in visual effects and title design for feature films, television, commercials, and movie trailers. He won an Emmy Award in 1991 for his work on "Pee-wee's Playhouse" (Title Design) and has won three Key Art Awards as art director/title designer on feature movie trailers for "Backdraft" and "Dragon: the Bruce Lee Story." In 1993, Dorne joined the digital department at Buena Vista Visual Effects at Walt Disney Pictures working on various productions for Disney and other studios. In 1995/96 he was visual effects supervisor for the facility's work on over 240 shots in "James and the Giant Peach." Since 1998 Dorne has been working at Industrial Light and Magic. In 2003 his work as compositing supervisor on "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" was nominated for best compositing in a motion picture by the Visual Effects Society at their first annual awards ceremony.