Syd Dutton

Writer

Date of birth : 12/01/1944

City of birth : San Francisco, California, USA

With an art background, Syd Dutton worked for almost a decade in the matte department at Universal Studios from the late seventies where he learned the technique of motion picture matte painting from resident matte artist Albert Whitlock. Following the retirement of Whitlock in the mid eighties, Dutton and visual effects cinematographer Bill Taylor set up the independent effects studio Illusion Arts.