When were you first asked to create a wormhole effect?

Styrofoam Monsterssubhead : Helping the actors with quick polystyrene whittling body : This dinosaur was in Star Trek. And this was from Distant Origins, where we discover an intelligent species of dinosaurs that evolved from a primordial ancestor. A sculptor named Jordu Schell, made this out of modelling clay, and then I took it and painted it and photographed it against a piece of blue screen, which it is on now. And it had to be bigger in the show than the actual sculpture.

To make it simple for the actors, sometimes I�ll make little foam core cut-outs like this, rapidly on stage, this was like a ten minute cut-out, and using a brush pen, just kind of squiggle some detail just to amuse myself and give them a feeling of what it is. And that way the actors know how big it is when they walk around and they get a feeling of the mass of � of the object in the � in the show. Anything we can do to help them is a wise investment of energy.