With an art background, Syd Dutton worked for almost a decade in the matte department at Universal Studios from the late seventies where he learned the technique of motion picture matte painting from resident matte artist Albert Whitlock. Following the retirement of Whitlock in the mid eighties, Dutton and visual effects cinematographer Bill Taylor set up the independent effects studio Illusion Arts.

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Kate Beckinsale, Shuler Hensley, Hugh Jackman, Richard Roxburgh, and Will Kemp in Van Helsing (2004)

visual effects enhancement: Illusion Arts

Harrison Ford and Sean Young in Blade Runner (1982)

Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Running Man (1987)

Alice Krige, Brent Spiner, and Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

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