As a teenager growing up in Arlington Texas, Aaron Sims began his career working for famed commercial illustrator Don Ivan Punchatz. After moving to Los Angeles in 1985, Aaron began designing, sculpting, and painting creatures for the movie makeup effects industry. His earlier work includes: Fright Night II, Nightmare on Elm Street 5, Stephen King's It, and Beethoven's 2nd. In 1988, Aaron joined Rick Baker's Academy Award® winning Cinovation Studios Inc. He developed his skills on Gremlins 2 (Head Painter), Baby's Day Out (Head Painter/Cosmetic Supervisor), Batman Forever (Painter/Sculptor), and Batman and Robin (Painter/Sculptor). Aaron went on to lead various projects at Cinovation, designing and sculpting the Grandma Klump prosthetic makeup on The Nutty Professor, the Worm Guys and other aliens in Men in Black, the Willie character prosthetic make-up in Life, and the second Grandma Klump prosthetic make-up in The Nutty Professor 2. Aaron also sculpted and painted Baby Joe in Mighty Joe Young. As Project Supervisor on How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Aaron sculpted and painted the Baby Grinch character, oversaw its construction, and puppeteer-ed the character on set. He designed many of the 'Who' Character prosthetics as well. Always looking for ways to expand his artistic ability, in the late 90s Aaron began exploring the medium of computer animation. After a year spent learning how to use Softimage, he joined Stan Winston Studio in 2000, and began building a digital design shop within the Academy Award winning effects house. Immediately his unique conceptual design techniques, developed around the marriage of art and technology, were applied in designing the robotic characters in AI: Artificial Intelligence. Sims also completed digital production work on Creature Features. In 2001 he was joined by Animation Director, Randall Rosa and Visual Effects Supervisor, Andre Bustanoby to form SW Digital, the design division at Stan Winston Studio. SW Digital has since designed characters for Terminator 3, and completed and all digital promotional trailer TRAKK for Stan Winston Creatures, the action figure and comics division of Stan Winston Studio.Aaron's recent work includes: designs for Warner Brother's Constantine and Doom, Sony's Big Fish, digital work and Art Direction on both Universal's The Cat in the Hat, and Paramount Pictures' Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. He also co-wrote a book on character design in XSI and has just completed two DVDs on creature and character design for The Gnomon Workshop.
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