Dennis Blakey
D.M. Blakey is a writer, teacher, artist and inventor. He created visual effects and animation for film and television at Walt Disney Animation Studios and other production studios for thirty years. He received a prime-time television Emmy for the pilot episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. His work can be seen in movies such as Iron Man III, Tron: Legacy, 2012, Into The Storm, Disney's Dinosaur and Home On The Range, Dante's Peak, Apollo 13 and The Fifth Element. He was also chair of online animation and visual effects graduate students and an instructor for eight years at an art university. He animated the Galileo Spacecraft for NASA/JPL on a room sized mini-supercomputer, and created a scientific software center for the Naval Research Laboratory. He was a full-time inventor creating machine and software inventions from advanced lossless and lossy compression algorithms, animation registration, binaural underwater whale audio recording hydrophone hardware and a couple other advanced projects. He graduated from California Institute of the Arts with a degree in experimental film graphics while learning to solder since the age of seven and growing up a kid of science who liked early tube-type lasers, radio, telephones, and xray machines. In addition to his interests in art and science, he has a teaching certificate in the Chinese internal arts of Xing Yi and standing meditation.
