A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Thomas Martinek
Tom Martinek has been working in Visual Effects for over 35 years. He worked his way out to California where became a model maker and camera assistant at Apogee Productions, he was a head of the film scanning department at PDI in LA and for the last 20+ years he has been a sequence supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic.
I/O Supervisor:
1993 Cliffhanger
1993 Freaked
1993 Heart and Souls
Sequence Supervisor:
1993 Cliffhanger
1993 Freaked
1993 Heart and Souls
2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2002 Minority Report
2005 xXx: State of the Union
2011 Rango
2012 The Avengers
2016 Warcraft
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.