After the huge success of Star Wars (1977), the space adventures invaded the theatrical screens
all over the world, and of course, TV series also fell under its influence. Universal
Studios produced two seasons of Buck
Rogers in the 25th Century (1979).
VFX were produced at Universal Hartland
facilities with Peter Anderson and David Jones as supervisors. For the matte paintings, they were recruited: Jena Holman and Dan Curry. They both started their matte painting career
during the late 70´S. Dan and Jena also
painted mattes for the TV series Galactica
(1980) and later at David Stipes Productions.
Visual effects supervisor: Peter Anderson
Miniature effects: David M. Garber/ Wayne Smith
Special photographic effects supervisor: David
Jones
Visual effects: David Stipes
Model maker: Pete Gerard, Sean Casey, Kenneth
Larson, Pat McCLung
Model planet painting: Janet Kusnick
Matte painting: Jenna Holman, Dan Curry.
For the pilot episode, matte paintings were by
Syd Dutton and Bill Taylor.
Pilot episode Awakening
A Dream of Jennifer
Planet of the Amazon Women
Planet of the Slave Girls
Vegas in Space
Unchained Woman
Flight of the War Witch
Planet painting
by Janet Kusnick.
Matte
painter Jena Holman.
Dan Curry
with his Emmy award for “Star Trek: The Next Generation”
David
Stipes checking the lighting for a Buck Rogers spaceship.
