Ernest Farino, Visual Effects Supervisor and Second Unit Director

Emmy-nominated Ernest Farino spins magic in Dune as the visual effects supervisor and second unit director. Farino's colorful career in visual effects includes 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/Tom Hanks miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. As a director, Farino was at the helm for four episodes of the series Monsters (produced by Dune executive producer Richard P. Rubinstein) as well as seven episodes of the 1994 version of the ABC TV series Land of the Lost. Farino also directed the sci-fi 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 feature films with Roger Corman's Galaxy of Terror, on which he worked with that film's visual effects art director, James Cameron, who later hired Farino to work on his hit sci-fi epic, The Terminator.