Hal Hickel

Personal Info

Know For

Visual Effects

Gender

Male

Birthday

-

Place of Birth

Bailey, Colorado, USA

Hal Hickel

Biography

Hal T. Hickel is a visual effects animator for Industrial Light & Magic. At the age of 12, Hickel wrote a letter to Lucasfilm, outlining his ideas for a sequel to the original Star Wars movie (now known as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope), and received a polite rejection letter from producer Gary Kurtz. The letter now hangs on the wall of Hickel's office at ILM. Twenty years later, Hickel found himself working on Star Wars after all, as a lead animator on Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. A native of Bailey, Colorado, Hickel joined the Film Graphics Program at CalArts in 1982. He worked at An-FX from 1982 until 1988, and then join...

Production

2003

Dreamcatcher

as Animation Supervisor

2001

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

as Animation Supervisor

2016

Warcraft

as Animation Supervisor

2016

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

as Animation Supervisor

1995

Toy Story

as Animation

2011

Rango

as Animation Director

2011

Rango

as Animation Supervisor

2013

Pacific Rim

as Animation Supervisor

2008

Iron Man

as Animation Supervisor

2007

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