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Visual Effects
Supervisor
From Richard's Website (See Links Below For More
Information):
Richard Taylor holds an extensive background in live action
direction; production design, special effects and computer generated
images for theatrical films and television commercials.
Richard began his career as an artist and holds a BFA in painting &
drawing from the University of Utah. After his graduation in 1967 he
co-founded Rainbow Jam, a multi-media light show and graphics
company which gave concert performances in tandem with top musical
groups such as The Grateful Dead, Santana, Led Zeppelin and Jethro
Tull. During this period Richard began his filmmaking career and one
of his first films "Integrator", based on drag racing, won numerous
film festival awards.
In 1971 Richard received the prestigious Cole Porter Fellowship from
USC where he earned an MFA in Print Making and Photography. In 1973,
Richard joined Robert Abel and Associates, the pioneer television
graphics and commercial special effects studio.
While at Abel's, Richard directed many award-winning television
commercials and received four Clio awards for his work on the 7UP
Bubbles "See the Light", 7UP "Uncola" and the Levi's "Trademark"
commercials. During his tenure at the Abel Studio he created many of
the on air graphics for ABC television and designed new theatrical
logos for CBS Theatrical Films and Columbia Pictures.
Richard then supervised the design and construction of the
miniatures and designed and directed special effects sequences for
Paramount's' STAR TREK, THE MOTION PICTURE.
In 1978, Richard became the creative director at Information
International Inc. (III) one of the original pioneers in computer
graphics imaging, CGI. While at III Richard directed many of the
first computer generated commercials and designed and directed the
special effects for the feature film "LOOKER" which was written and
directed by Michael Crichton.
In 1981 as a result of his work at III in computer simulation and
his previous work at Abel & Associates, Richard became the Special
Effects Director of Walt Disney's TRON, the innovative film that
introduced America to the world of computer simulation. Taylor not
only organized the effects for the film but he was a key designer of
the films graphics and costumes.
In 1982 following Tron , Richard opened the West Coast office of
Magi Synthavision, the computer animation studio that along with III
generated the computer simulation scenes for Tron. One of the first
commercials Richard directed at Magi, "Worm War One" won the first
Clio for Computer Animation.
In 1985 Richard began directing live action and effects commercials
for Lee Lacy & Associates and during a span of two years created
commercials for clients such as Ford Motor Company, 7UP
International, RCA and the noted Duracel toy commercials.
In 1987, Richard moved to Apogee Production Inc. where he launched
the internationally acclaimed 7UP Company's "Spot" campaign. His 7UP
commercial titled "Baseball" won the 1988 Clio award for Best Live
Action Animation Combination and the spots "Teachers Lounge" and
"Christmas" both won the Best Director category at the 1989
International Monitor Awards
From 1988 through 1992, Richard directed for Image Point Production.
While there he directed for clients such as 7UP, Kellogg's, Duracel
and Ford. In 1991 his Reebok commercial "Cowardly Baskets" won three
Clios including Best Computer Animation.
In 1992 Richard joined with director David Dryer to form
Dryer/Taylor Productions, where he continued to fortify his
reputation for creativity directing campaigns for Duracel,
McDonalds, Warner Bros., Kellogg's and Disney.
From 1997 through 2000 Richard directed for his long time friends at
Rhythm & Hues Studios.
Related Links
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