Bill Mather

William "Bill" Mather is a visual effects artist specialized in creating matte paintings who worked as digital matte artist for Industrial Light & Magic on and created matte paintings for the first season episode showing the surface of the planet Risa.
Mather created digital matte paintings for ILM on four Star Wars films in the '90s as well as dozens of matte paintings and digital matte paintings on the adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992-1993) and its following film productions between 1994 and 2008. In 1990 he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Special Visual Effects for his work on the television thriller By Dawn's Early Light, shared with Craig Barron, Michael Pangrazio, and Charlie Mullen. In 1996 he earned an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects for his work on the television movie The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen, shared with Eric Chauvin.
Priot to his work for ILM, Mather worked as matte painter for the company Matte World on projects such as the drama Avalon (1990, with Craig Barron, Michael Pangrazio, Wade Childress, Christopher Evans, Rich McKay, and Krystyna Demkowicz), the comedy All I Want for Christmas (1991, with Frank Ordaz), (1992), (1992), (1992), (1992), (1993), (1993), and (1994).
For Industrial Light & Magic he worked as digital matte artist on (1994), (1994), (1995), (1995), (1996), (1997), (1997), (1998), (1998), and (2002).
Other credits as matte artist include (2000), (2001), J.J. Abrams' (2001, with Kevin Blank), (2001), and (2002). In addition, Mather served as visual effects coordinator on (1998) and as visual effects supervisor on the drama The Californians (2005).
More recent work as conceptual artist include (2004), (2006), and (2007).
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