Rick Heinrichs

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Rick Heinrichs

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Designing the Burtonesque
0h 6m
Movie 2024

Designing the Burtonesque

This film delves into Burton’s unique approach to world-building. From the context of the room – designed to evoke the historic movie palaces that Burton frequented as a child – to the content of the film, Burton’s enduring relationship with cinema is evident throughout. Designing the Burtonesque features interviews with frequent collaborators, such as production designer Rick Heinrichs, and clips from films that have inspired him, like Ray Harryhausen’s "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" (1958). It provides a close analysis of stop motion animation and reveals Burton’s contributions to the advancement of this special craft.

According to Plan: The Making of 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'
1h 3m
Movie 2006

According to Plan: The Making of 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'

Special feature documentary following the cast and crew through the making of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
0h 42m
Movie 2000

Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend

A behind the scenes look at the making of Sleepy Hollow.

Biography

Richard Heinrichs is an American production designer, effects artist, art director, and film producer. He is well known for his frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton and his work on the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Ang Lee's Hulk, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. He started his career on visual effects on the other world sequence in The Watcher in the Woods, Tim Burton's Hansel and Gretel, and Vincent, to later work on Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Nutcracker: The Motion Picture. He also worked on Frankenweenie.[citation needed] He won an Oscar for Best Art Direction for Sleepy Hollow at the 72nd Academy Awards and received further nominations for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006). He also contributed conceptual designs for Tim Burton's failed Superman Lives project. Graduated from the California Institute of the Arts (in Valencia, California), he started to work at Disney, where he met Tim Burton and became a regular collaborator of his. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Heinrichs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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