Dan Curry

Dan Curry is a visual effects producer and supervisor, as well as a main title designer in the film and television industry. He is most famous for his work on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager (for which he also designed the title sequence), and Enterprise.[1] His work on these series has earned him seven Emmy awards.

Starting on TNG, Curry used his experience as a martial artist to develop a fighting style for the fictional alien race known as the Klingons. He designed several Klingon hand-to-hand combat weapons, including the Sword of Kahless, the mek'leth, and - most notably - the bat'leth.

Curry has also designed many memorable title sequences for feature films including Top Gun, Big Trouble in Little China, and ¡Three Amigos!. He also worked as visual effects supervisor on the television series Chuck. As of 2015, he is also a member of the board of directors for the Hollywood Science Fiction Museum.

Curry attended Middlebury College in Vermont and graduate school at Humboldt State University in California.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Star Trek - Dan Curry Interview, Retrieved September 8, 2011
  2. ↑ Vesage By Daniel Wade, Visual Effects Society (2005)

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