The Los Angeles Empire Con is heading to the LAX Marriott on 6th – 8th December 2019 and joining the show is a matte painting legend who brought imagination to life on the silver screen.
Harrison Ellenshaw will be at Empire Con this December! The event is happening at the Marriott LAX Dec 6-8 and we can’t wait for you to join us there. Event details and tickets are all here: http://bit.ly/EmpireCon
Harrison is an amazing Matte Artist, and is best known for his work on TRON (1982), Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977), and Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back.
The son of prominent Academy Award-winning matte artist Peter Ellenshaw (Spartacus, Treasure Island, Mary Poppins), and brother of also visual effects artist Lynda Ellenshaw Thompson (Ghost Busters, Flubber), Harrison Ellenshaw followed his father’s footsteps and began working with matte in the 1970s with films as The Castaway Cowboy (1974, Vincent McEveety), The Shaggy D.A. (1976, Robert Stevenson) and Pete’s Dragon (1977, Don Chaffey), for the Walt Disney Studios. Later, Ellenshaw joined George Lucas’s effect studio, Industrial Light and Magic, where he started with the matte effects of the first Star Wars movie. Harrison Ellenshaw continued his work in the 1980s with The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner), TRON (1982, Steven Lisberger, awarded with a BAFTA) and Superman IV (1987, Sidney J. Furie, nominated to a Razzie).
In the 1990s, Ellenshaw returned to Disney to work in Dick Tracy (1990, Warren Beatty). He also worked Ghost (1990, Jerry Zucker), Dave (1993, Ivan Reitman) and successful TV series Xena. Ellenshaw eventually became the head of Disney’s effects studio, Buena Vista Visual Effect, and worked as its executive producer in Escape from L.A. (1996, John Carpenter)
