Template:Realworld Koji Kuramura was a digital artist for Foundation Imaging and EdenFX. He worked on numerous episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise, as well as the Star Trek: New Voyages fan films and the tenth feature film Star Trek Nemesis.
Kuramura's work on Deep Space Nine entailed among others the Defiant-class launch bay. [1] For Voyager, his work included constructing the warp nacelle interior for the USS Voyager crash sequence in "Timeless", building the Unicomplex and the damaged Borg sphere in "Dark Frontier", and animating the Fire Caves sequence in "What You Leave Behind". (Star Trek Monthly issue 58) For Star Trek: Enterprise, a noticeable contribution was his CGI build of the USS Defiant. [2] His work earned Kuramura three Emmy Award nominations, one for the Voyager episode "Year of Hell, Part II", and two for the Enterprise episodes "Dead Stop" (that did win him a Visual Effects Society Award) and "The Council".
Outside Star Trek Kuramura worked as a special effects crew member on the short film The Blair Witch Mountain Project in 2002, directed, produced, and starring Ike Eisenmann. Another film as digital artists is the horror thriller Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist in 2005, alongside John Teska.
In 2006, Kuramura was hired by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in order to create visualizations, for which his prior experiences on Star Trek were singularly well suited, of space exploration, or as Kurmura himself has put it, "Our job is to bring some Hollywood pizazz, the wow factor, to everything we do". [3]
Star Trek awards
Emmy Awards
Kuramura received the following Emmy Award nominations in the category Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series:
- 1998 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "Year of Hell, Part II", shared with Eric Chauvin, Arthur Codron, Paul Hill, John Teska, Greg Rainoff, Mitch Suskin, and Adam Lebowitz
- 2003 Emmy Award nomination for "Dead Stop", shared with Arthur Codron, Pierre Drolet, Steve Fong, Robert Bonchune, Sean Scott, John Teska, Greg Rainoff, and Mitch Suskin
- 2004 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "The Council", shared with Arthur Codron, Dan Curry, Pierre Drolet, Steve Fong, Sean Jackson, John Teska, Greg Rainoff, and Mike Stetson
Visual Effects Society Awards
Kuramura received the following Visual Effects Society Award in the category Best Models and Miniatures in a Televised Program:
- 2003 Visual Effects Society Award win for the episode "Dead Stop", shared with John Teska, Pierre Drolet and Sean M. Scott
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