Gary Hutzel
| Gary Hutzel | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Gary Dean Hutzel November 4, 1955 Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | March 1, 2016 (aged 60) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Visual effects supervisor |
| Years active | 1985–2016 |
| Known for |
Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Battlestar Galactica |
| Awards | 4x Emmy Award |
Gary Dean Hutzel (November 4, 1955 – March 1, 2016) was an American visual effects supervisor from Ann Arbor, Michigan who worked on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Battlestar Galactica, among others. He was nominated more than 20 times for Emmy Awards, winning on four occasions.
Gary Hutzel was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He studied mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan for a period, but decided that he wanted to pursue a career in films and moved to California where he studied photography at the Brooks Institute. His first job in the industry was as a van driver for the commercial production house FilmFair. While there, he decided that he wanted to pursue visual effects.
His first visual effects job was as second assistant cameraman on the 1985 film Teen Wolf. He then began to freelance for CBS, working on The Twilight Zone. In 1986, he was recruited to work on the new Star Trek television series, Star Trek: The Next Generation as a visual effects coordinator. He continued to work on the show for the following five seasons, before moving to work on the spin-off series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine where he was the visual effects supervisor for all seven seasons.
During his work on the Star Trek franchise, he worked on a great number of visual effects shots including the breakapart model of the Borg Cube seen in the two-part episode "The Best of Both Worlds", the design of the USS Defiant and the blending of old and new footage required for "Trials and Tribble-ations". He also produced renderings for several non-canon Star Trek novels, although he was known as being reluctant to use computer generated imagery and preferred to work with physical models where possible. Hutzel co-wrote The Magic of Tribbles: The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine – "Trials and Tribbles-ations" alongside Terry J. Erdmann and Paula M. Block.
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