Pat McClung

Patrick "Pat" Gene McClung is an Academy Award-nominated motion picture visual effects artist who specializes in models and miniatures. His first professional film work was providing effects props and miniatures to the production of while employed at the model shop of Apogee, Inc.
Since Star Trek: The Motion Picture, McClung has worked as a model maker for (1984), a technical supervisor for the miniatures in (1986), and chief model maker for (1988). In addition, he was in charge of the weaponry effects for (1987), served as model shop supervisor for (1989), and created the helicopter models for 1993's Cliffhanger.
McClung earned Academy Award nominations for his work as miniature supervisor working for Digital Domain on (1997, among those sharing the nomination was fellow Star Trek effects artist John Bruno). McClung also worked in Digital Domain's miniature department on . McClung earned a second Academy Award nomination for his visual effects supervision on (1998). Other films on which he served as visual effects supervisor include Chain Reaction (1996), (1997), and Charlie's Angels (2000). He was also the miniature unit supervisor on (2006, starring Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Rebecca Romijn and Kelsey Grammer, with Shohreh Aghdashloo, Chelah Horsdal, Julian Christopher, and John Pyper-Ferguson).
McClung is featured in the 2011 documentary Sense of Scale, in which several model makers discuss their craft, and which also features Ron Gress, Greg Jein, and Gene Rizzardi.
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