ERNEST FARINO Visual Effects Supervisor Ernest Farino, the Emmy Award-winning visual effects supervisor of Frank Herbert's Dune, reprises that role for the SCI FI Channel miniseries Frank Herbert's Children of Dune. Farino's colorful career spans work in various aspects of visual effects on such projects as Creepshow, Lady in White, The Terminator, The Abyss and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Farino served as visual-effects supervisor on the NBC miniseries Noah's Ark and the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, for which he garnered an Emmy nomination for visual effects. As a director, Farino was at the helm for four episodes of the series Monsters (produced by Children of Dune executive producer Richard P. Rubinstein) as well as seven episodes of the 1994 version of the ABC series Land of the Lost. Farino also directed the science-fiction feature film Steel and Lace, starring Bruce Davidson and David Naughton. Farino came to Hollywood in 1979 and started work at Coast Effects, animating the Pillsbury Doughboy, among other commercial jobs. Farino began his career in the feature-film industry with Roger Corman's Galaxy of Terror. On that film, he worked with visual-effects art director James Cameron, with whom he'd later work on the blockbuster feature The Terminator.

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