Kevin Pike

Kevin Pike is a special and visual effects artist who worked on three and on . He first worked as custom props special effects artist on in and in as special effects artist on . In , Pike worked as visual effects pyrotechnician on and in as special effects technician on the Enterprise fourth season episodes and . He received no credit for his work.
Pike made his start into the business by working as laborer and painter on in 1975. He also worked in the special effects department on the sharks. Grant McCune worked as model maker on this film. He then worked as special effects assistant and technician and propmaker on (1975), (1975, starring William Shatner), Marcus Welby, M.D. (1975), Holmes and Yoyo (1976), (1976), (1976, with property master Craig Binkley), (1976), (1977, starring Lindsay Wagner), (1977), Lanigan's Rabbi (1977), (1977), Testimony of Two Men (1977), (1977, with Ted Koerner), (1979), (1979), From Here to Eternity (1979, with Ted Koerner), The Secret Empire (1979), and Time Express (1979).
His film work as special effects technician include (1976, with Bob Dawson), (1976), (1977, with Alex Weldon), (1976), (1976), (1976, with Ted Koerner), (1977, with Ted Koerner), (1977), (1977, with Bob Baker, Ted Koerner, and Robert Short), (1978), The Clone Master (1978, written and produced by John D.F. Black), (1978), (1979), (1979), (1979), (1979, directed by Nicholas Meyer), and (1979).
In the 1980s, Pike worked as special effects artist on (1980, with Joseph A. Unsinn), (1980, with Ted Koerner), (1981, with David P. Kelsey and Robert Cole), (1981), (1981), (1981), (1981), (1981, with Michael Lantieri and Bill Taylor), (1982), (1982), (1983), (1983), (1983, with Thaine Morris), (1983), (1983), (1984), (1984, with R.J. Hohman), (1984), (1985), (1986, with John Palmer, Brick Price, and Harold Weed), (1987), (1988, with John Palmer, Brick Price, and Burt Dalton), (1989, with Marty Bresin), (1989), (1989, with Roland Blancaflor, David W. Mosher, and William Purcell), and (1989).
His work on earned him a Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA in the category Best Special Effects in 1986. The film starred Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Thomas F. Wilson, with Ivy Bethune, Jeff O'Haco, Sachi Parker, and Arthur Tovey, and had special effects by Richard Chronister, Crit Killen, and Ted Koerner. Also in 1986, Pike earned a BAFTA Film Award nomination in the category Best Special Visual Effects for Back to the Future which he shared with Ken Ralston. In 1990, he received another Saturn Award nomination in the category Best Special Effects for his work on Moonwalker which he shared with Hoyt Yeatman.
Between 1994 and 1995, Pike worked as special effects supervisor on . He also worked as second unit director on the episodes "First Contact" and "Lessons". For the pilot episode, Pike won an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Individual Achievement – Special Visual Effect in 1995 which he shared with Daniel J. Lombardo and Tim Landry. The series starred Clancy Brown, John Gegenhuber, and Tierre Turner with guest stars Terry O'Quinn, Michael Reilly Burke, Tim Ransom, Lilyan Chauvin, Jeff Kober, Christopher Neame, and Virginia Madsen.
Other projects Pike worked on in the 1990s, mostly as special effects supervisor, include (1991), (1992), (1993), (1994, with Joe Colwell, Jake Garber, Michael Lantieri, Brian Tipton, and Harold Weed), (1994, with Eric Swenson), (1994, with Roland Blancaflor, Greg Cannom, David Sosalla, Larry Odien, and Keith VanderLaan), (1996), (1999), (1999), and (1996-97), The Good News (1998), For Your Love (1998), (1998), Brimstone (1998), Jesse (1998), and (1999).
Further credits as special effects supervisor include (2000), Friends (2000), (2000), (2000, starring Nikki Cox and Toby Huss), (1999 and 2001, starring Diedrich Bader), (2001), (2002), Family Affair (2003), Still Standing (2003), (2003), (2003, starring Wendie Malick), Whoopi (2003, starring Whoopi Goldberg), Happy Family (2004, starring John Larroquette), (2004), Medical Investigation (2005, starring Neal McDonough), (2005), (2005), (2006), (2005-06), (2006), The Class (2006), Crumbs (2006), Notes from the Underbelly (2007), (2008), (2009), (2009, starring Rebecca Romijn), (2009), (2009), Gary Unmarried (2009), (2009-2010), Greek (2010), (2009-10), and 100 Questions (2010), (2000), (2000), (2001), (2001), the television comedy Hench at Home (2003), the action thriller Mojave (2004), (2005), and (2005).
Today, Pike works as a screenwriting consultant.
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