Apprenticed at a young age in the entertainment industry, as a designer Kim has a skill base not seen in the workplace of today. The owner and operator of Starlight Effects in the 80's and 90's, his innovative designs for the private sector enlisted his talents to help develop new products and help companies craft their brand and business model.
Kim's focus for the past decade has been all manner of design from industrial design and theme park design to commercial projects, architectural design, brand development and industrial design. His skills combined with his experiences in emerging technology and integrations make him a very rare and highly experienced resource.
Kim's personal perspectives is to assist and inspire others to achieve their vision and goals by enlisting his experience, skills, talents and resources as the tools necessary to meet their objectives.
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Unique traits: Technology Design, Visual Effects Specialist/Designer, Production Consultant
Aether: Prologue
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Film
by Horst Sarubin (Short and Sci-Fi)
Art department Considered a 2nd class citizen by the Skyborne, Wil Laran embarks on a journey to define his destiny or meet his demise in this steampunk inspired science fiction film.
Aether
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Film (short)
by Frame29films / Drew Hall & Horst Sarubin (Sci-Fi)
Visual Consultant IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4449936/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Considered a 2nd class citizen by the Skyborne, Wil Laran embarks on a journey to define his destiny or meet his demise in this steampunk inspired science fiction film.
Enormous
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Television
(Action)
Production designer A live-action series based on the Image Comics graphic novel of the same name. The comic tells the story of a post-apocalyptic world where humans are prey for giant insects
Mohawk Salon
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Film
by Raggedy Ends Productions
Production Designer / Creative Producer IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3421368/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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It's up to Chicago detective Sam Mitchell to solve the ongoing serial murders of dozens of Afro-American hairdressers, whose scalped remains are being hung like trophies to their salon mirrors. As a rookie in the late 1970s, Sam covered a grisly crime scene in Harlem, where a Native American woman was murdered and scalped, her baby missing. That case was never solved. Is the troubled Black cop up to the task of restoring order to the city?
Emormous
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Film (short)
by Machinama / BenDavid Grabinski
Production Designer A live-action series based on the Image Comics graphic novel of the same name. The comic tells the story of a post-apocalyptic world where humans are prey for giant insects
A Tiger's Tail
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Film
by Epic Pictures
Production Designer A boy winds up in this live-action adventure of a lifetime when Luna, a baby tiger cub, escapes from an animal sanctuary and follows him home. It is up to one boy, his friend, and his dog to return Luna to her home before she destroys his parents' home.
Damaged Goods (Pilot)
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Television
by Serious Damage Productions, LLC.
Production Designer
Forerunner
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Film (short)
by Christpoher He Productions, LLC
Production Designer In 1970s, during the cold war, British spy Adam posing as a journalist and try to steal a secret clean energy source from a scientist who hiding in underground with his daughter, and have been chased by his wife's murder.
ADOD, LLC
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Film
Production Designer / Creative Producer Production Company assisting and producing content for television, live performance and feature films
I will follow you into the dark
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Film
by Mark Edwin Robinson
Assistant Art Director A woman reeling from the death of her parents becomes attached to an alluring man whose sudden disappearance sends her and her friends into a haunted high-rise to find him
The 2nd Annual Streamy Awards
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Television
by Rafi Fine (Reality-TV)
Production designer
The Web.Files
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Television
by Kristyn Burtt (Talk-Show)
Production designer
Tiki Bar TV
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Television
(Comedy)
Production designer
Mostly Ghostly
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Video
by Rich Correll (Family, Fantasy and Horror)
Art department Further complications beset the life of young, aspiring magician Max when he finds only he can see and hear the ghosts that have come to reside in his family's relatively new home (former home of the ghosts). Like Max, two of the ghosts are children, who also need a living person to help them defeat an evil apparition named Phears aiming to capture them and release mean spirits back into the world on Halloween. Written by statmanjeff
Meet the Fockers
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Film
by Jay Roach (Comedy and Romance)
Special effects Having given permission to male nurse Greg Focker to marry his daughter, ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife travel to Miami to Greg's parents, who this time around are Mr. and Mrs. Focker, who are as different from them as can be. As asked in the first movie, what sort of people name their son Gaylord M. Focker? Written by Uber Minion
Team America: World Police
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Film
by Trey Parker (Animation, Action and Comedy)
Special effects The North American anti-terrorist force Team America attacks a group of terrorist in Paris. Later, the leader of the organization, Spottswoode, invites the famous Broadway actor Gary Johnston to join his world police and work undercover in Cairo in a terrorist organization and disclose their plan of destroying the world. The Team America destroy the cell of terrorists, but then the Panama Canal is attacked by the criminals as a payback. Gary feels responsible for the death of many innocents and leaves the counter-terrorism organization. When the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, joins a group of pacifist actors and actresses with the intention of using weapons of massive destruction, the Team America tries to avoid the destruction of the world. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The One
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Film
by James Wong (Action, Sci-Fi and Thriller)
Art department There is not one universe, but there are many, which is a multiverse. Supposing you are just one person, there are many other versions of you in the other universes, there are ways to travel, but only a police agency,MVA, can travel only for police procedures. Gabriel Yulaw is a former MVA agent, who killed another version of himself in self-defense. It made the other versions of him stronger. When Yulaw found out about this, he became power-hungry killing the 122 other versions for two years. After killing Lawless and getting captured by his former partner Roedecker and a new MVA agent Funsch, Yulaw managed to escape the prison and is trying to kill his last target, Gabe Law who is a police officer. He is also at Yulaw's strength. Roedecker and Funsch now have to arrest Yulaw before he can kill Gabe. There is a possibility that the universe could die or make Yulaw invincible. After encountering Yulaw for the first time, Gabe thought that it was his split personality, but it wasn't. ... Written by Zero 88
Mission to Mars
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Film
by Brian De Palma (Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller)
Art department In 2020, a crew of astronauts has been prepared for a two-year international mission in Mars. Jim McConnell, Woody Blake and his wife Terri Fisher, Luke Graham and Phil Ohlmyer are best friends and Jim lost his chance to land in Mars when his beloved wife Maggie McConnell died. The team of four astronauts land in Mars but a mysterious storm kills three of them and only Luke survives. A rescue team with Woody in command and Jim, Terri and Phil heads to the red planet and discovers that only Luke has survived. Their further investigation shows that the storm that killed the three other astronauts was artificial and created to protect a Face that lies on Mar. What might be the intriguing Face? Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Soldier
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Film
by Paul W.S. Anderson (Action, Drama and Sci-Fi)
Art department In a futuristic society, some people are selected at birth to become soldiers, and trained in such a manner that they become inhuman killing machines. One of the most succesfull and older of these soldiers (Russell) is pitted against a new breed of soldiers, and after the confrontation is believed to be dead. His body is left behind in a semi-abandoned colonial planet, where everything is peaceful, and he is taught about the other aspects of life. But eventually he has to fight the new breed of soldiers again, this time to defend his new home... Written by Parca Mortem <icy_shadow@rocketmail.com>
Deep Impact
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Film
by Mimi Leder (Action, Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller)
Art department Journalist Jenny Lerner is assigned to look into the background of Secretary Alan Rittenhouse who abruptly resigned from government citing his wife's ill health. She learns from his secretary that Rittenhouse was having an affair with someone named Ellie but when she confronts him, his strange reaction leads her to reconsider her story. In fact, a comet, discovered the previous year by high school student Leo Biederman and astronomer Dr. Marcus Wolf, is on a collision course with the Earth, an Extinction Level Event. A joint US-Russian team is sent to destroy the comet but should it fail, special measures are to be put in place to secure the future of mankind. As the space mission progresses, many individuals deal with their fears and ponder their future. Written by garykmcd
Alien: Resurrection
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Film
by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Action, Horror and Sci-Fi)
Special effects 200 years after the conclusion of Alien 3, the Company is able to resurrect Ripley through the process of cloning and the scientists successfully take the Queen Alien out of her. But, Ripley's DNA gets mixed up with the Queen's and she begins to develop certain alien characteristics. The scientists begin breeding the aliens, but they later escape. Soon the Xeno-morphs are running amok on the ship, which is on course to Earth. The Queen then gives birth to a deadly new breed of alien, which could spell disaster for the entire human race. It's up to Ripley and a band of space pirates to stop the ship before it reaches Earth. Written by Andrew Kasch <akasch@Chattanooga.net>
EZ Streets
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Television
(Crime and Drama)
Visual effects In an unnamed, broken-down city somewhere near the Canadian border, three violent men seem destined to come into conflict. Detective Cameron Quinn is searching for the man who killed his partner. Vicious mobster Jimmy Murtha may be the killer, but he's busy looking after old friend Danny Rooney, who just did three years in prison for a crime Murtha committed. Written by Alan Sepinwall <sepinwal@force.stwing.upenn.edu>
Mission: Impossible
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Film
by Brian De Palma (Action, Adventure and Thriller)
Special effects Based on the hit T.V. series. Jim Phelps was sent to Prague for a mission to prevent the theft of classified material. His wife Claire and his trusted partner Ethan Hunt were members of Phelps' team. Unfortunately, something went horribly wrong and the mission failed, leaving Ethan Hunt the lone survivor. After he reported the failed mission, Kettridge the head of the agency suspects Ethan of being the culprit for the failed mission. Now, Ethan uses unorthodox methods (Which includes the aid of an arms dealer going by the name "Max") to try to find who set him up and to clear his name. Written by John Wiggins
Baywatch Nights
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Television
by Douglas Schwartz (Action and Drama)
Miscellaneous Crew In this -far less successful, hence shorter-lived- Baywatch spin-off, Mitch Buchannon, the reliable lieutenant in charge of an LA county beach's lifeguards, moonlights -often literally, at night, hence the title- as a private detective, who investigates and solves various crimes, often in some way related to his beloved beach and/or the ocean (e.g. as smuggle route, hiding place, dumping site), sometimes aided by several other characters which vary in the series, including young lifeguard Griff Walker. Written by KGF Vissers
Live Shot
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Television
by Steve Marshall (Drama)
Special effects
Strange Days
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Film
by Kathryn Bigelow (Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi and 1 More)
Special effects Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millennium, the movie tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who now deals with data-discs containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disc which contains the memories of a murderer killing a prostitute. Lenny investigates and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of blackmail, murder and rape. Will he survive and solve the case? Written by Harald Mayr <marvin@bike.augusta.de>
Leprechaun 3
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Video
by Brian Trenchard-Smith (Comedy, Fantasy and Horror)
Visual effects It was a normal night in Las Vegas, Nevada, all the lights were flashing brightly, until a man with one hand, one eye, and one leg walks into a pawn shop with a statue of a hideous looking Leprechaun. The owner claims it's a good luck charm. The statue also wore a medallion around it's neck. The careless pawn shop owner took off the medallion setting the Leprechaun free, along with his pot of gold that everyone wants and like before, he'll kill anyone who goes near it. Driving into town that night was a young man named Scott who was off to L.A. to go to school. Along the way he meets a sarcastic, but friendly, girl named Tammy. Scott tries gambling but loses everything, so he goes to the pawn shop to pawn his Rolex watch. At the shop, he finds the dead owner and one of Leprechaun's gold coins that grants a wish to its finder. Scott wishes for a winning streak, but what he does not know is that the casino is run by a crooked man who hates to lose. Also in the casino is an ignorant and ... Written by Dylan Self <Robocoptng986127@aol.com>
Stargate
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Film
by Roland Emmerich (Action, Adventure and Sci-Fi)
Art department In 1928, in Egypt, a strange device is found by an expedition. In the present days, the outcast linguist Dr. Daniel Jackson is invited by a mysterious woman to decipher an ancient hieroglyph in a military facility. Soon he finds that the device was developed by an advanced civilization and opens a portal to teletransport to another planet. Dr. Jackson is invited to join a military team under the command of Colonel Jonathan 'Jack' O'Neil that will explore the new world. They find a land that recalls Egypt and humans in a primitive culture that worship and are slaves to Ra, the God of the Sun. But soon they discover the secret of the mysterious "stargate". Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Spaced Invaders
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Film
by Patrick Read Johnson (Adventure, Comedy and Sci-Fi)
Visual effects When one saucer of an invasion force has engine trouble, it lands on Earth. It happens to be Halloween and it happens the invaders are only about 4 feet tall. As the bumbling aliens wander around the countryside they are taken to be children and they make friends with two children, one of whom is the daughter of the sheriff. As their troubles mount (it's difficult for five aliens to conquer a world) they begin to give up their plans of conquest, but then there is that nasty killer robot. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Deadly Weapon
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Film
by Michael Miner (Sci-Fi)
Visual effects An expermintal gun powered by an atomic reactor is misplaced when the transport carrying it crashes into a river. The weapon soon falls into the hands of a bullied teen named Zeke, who uses it to get even with his persecutors. An army team led by the overzealous Lt. Dalton is sent to recover the weapon before it's unstable reactor overloads and causes a meltdown. Written by Ronos
Star Trek: The Next Generation
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Television
by Gene Roddenberry (Action, Adventure, Mystery and Sci-Fi)
Visual effects Set in the 24th century and decades after the adventures of the original crew of the starship Enterprise, this new series is the long-awaited successor to the original Star Trek (1966). Under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the all new Enterprise NCC 1701-D travels out to distant planets to seek out new life and to boldly go where no one has gone before. Written by Harald Mayr <marvin@bike.augusta.de>
Arena
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Film
by Peter Manoogian (Action, Adventure and Sci-Fi)
Art department An intergalactic fighting competition between champions of various worlds has traditionally been won by a species much larger and stronger than humans. Entering the contest, a human finds he has to battle against not just his opponents and his self-doubts, but the corrupt system. Written by Cynan Rees <cynanrees@hotmail.com>
Bulletproof
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Film
by Steve Carver (Action)
Miscellaneous Crew A group of dangerous terrorists succeeds to get hold of a tank of the army and all its crew. Written by Anonymous
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
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Film
by Stephen Chiodo (Comedy, Horror and Sci-Fi)
Art department When a small town is invaded by aliens from outer space who are capturing and killing the townspeople, no one takes them seriously. Why? The aliens all look like circus clowns, use weapons that look clown like, and all have painted on smiles. Only a few of the young people in the town realize the danger and of course no one believes them. Armed with an ice cream truck they try and rescue their friends. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Nightflyers
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Film
by Robert Collector (Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller)
Special effects A scientific group set out on a journey into space to find a magical creature. What they find is a killer computer on the ship they chartered. Written by Glenn J. Schworak <glenn@g-world.com>
Masters of the Universe
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Film
by Gary Goddard (Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi and 1 More)
Special effects The planet Eternia is in the aftermath of Skeletor's war on Castle Greyskull, which he has won after seizing Greyskull and the surrounding city using the Cosmic Key developed by the Thenorian locksmith Gwildor. The Sorceress is Skeletor's prisoner and he begins draining her powers as he waits for Eternia's moon to align with the Great Eye of the Universe that will bestow god-like powers upon him. Once on Earth, He-Man and company team up with two teenagers as they attempt to find the key and return home. However, the dark lord Skeletor and his vile minions are soon hot on their trail as they bring He-Man back alive. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
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Film
by Chuck Russell (Horror and Thriller)
Special effects Picking up where the original Nightmare left off, Nancy has grown up and become a psychiatrist specializing in dream therapy. She meets a group of children at a local hospital facing Freddy Krueger, the same demon she once encountered in her sleep. One of them is Kristen, who has the power to draw other people into her dreams. Working with a male doctor assigned to the case, Nancy helps the kids realize their special abilities within the nightmare world. When Freddy captures one of her charges, she leads a rescue attempt into Krueger's domain, in hopes of putting his spirit to rest once and for all. Written by David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu>
Los Angeles Movie Award for Production Design
(2014)
Streamy Award for Production Design
(2009)