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James "Jim" Ojala (born May 6, 1977) is an American special effects and makeup artist, screenwriter and film director. ==Career overview== Ojala grew up in Duluth, Minnesota, where he developed an early love of film through horror movies and the works of directors such as Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, George A. Romero and Buddy Giovinazzo.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Limelight Index: Jim Ojala - Writer/Director/FX Artist )〕 Following his graduation from Duluth Central High School in 1995, Ojala began his career working in public-access television. There, he and his friends created the series ''My Three Scums'', a horror comedy sitcom about a dysfunctional family of mutants and monsters which he described as "sort of an obscene punk rock ''Munsters'' on crack".〔 The series ran locally for three years, after which Ojala sent tapes of the show - in a large box filled with inflated helium balloons reading "I LOVE MY THREE SCUMS" - to Troma Entertainment co-founder Lloyd Kaufman, who was impressed enough by both the series and its eye-catching promotion to offer Ojala an internship on the feature film ''Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV''. Upon receiving the news, Ojala immediately quit his job as a medical records filing clerk and moved to New York to work on the film.〔 During the production of ''Citizen Toxie'', Ojala stepped into an open spot in the film's makeup effects department, working alongside Tim Considine of special effects company Direct FX. At the film's completion, Considine offered Ojala a full-time assisting position within his company.〔 With Direct FX, Ojala worked on numerous features, commercials and theater, which included manufacturing an entire line of bald caps whose clients included ''Saturday Night Live'' and several Broadway productions.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jim Ojala > Biography )〕 Ojala also worked alongside B-movie auteur Larry Fessenden on the 2001 horror film ''Wendigo'' and was involved with the Millennium Film Workshop, where he learned how to work with 16mm film under the supervision of underground filmmaker Mike Kuchar.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tonight we talk with Film maker & Fx Artist Jim Ojala )〕 After the events of September 11, Ojala found it difficult to obtain any type of work in New York, eventually forcing him to seek out career options in California. Only a few days into a week-long visit to Los Angeles, Ojala was hired on the spot as a lab and on-set technician for the visual effects studio Almost Human, Inc., providing various functions including moldmaking, makeup application and puppeteering for film, commercials and television series including ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', ''Angel'' and ''Firefly''.〔〔 Since leaving Almost Human in 2005, Ojala has worked with several special effects companies including Autonomous FX, Animal Makers, Spectral Motion and Legacy Effects, and has worked on mainstream productions including ''Hellboy II: The Golden Army'', ''2012'', ''Where the Wild Things Are'', ''Thor'', ''X-Men: The Last Stand'' and ''Pacific Rim''.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James Ojala )〕 In 2005, Ojala established his own independent special effects studio and film production company (Ojala Productions ), specializing in makeup and creature effects for film and television as well as producing in-house projects written and directed by Ojala himself. Among others, Ojala Productions contributed special effects work for films like ''2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams'' and the critically acclaimed ''Deadgirl'', television shows including ''Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!'' and the music videos for Snoop Doggs ''Malice n Wonderland'' album.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Projects )〕 During this time, Ojala wrote and directed the short films ''The Incredible Torture Trio'', which played at the TromaDance Film Festival and was later distributed internationally on a ''Best of TromaDance'' DVD compilation, the 48 Hour Film Festival entry ''Truthus: A Family Holiday'' and ''Marvel Zombies: The Movie'', a fake trailer based on the Marvel Comics property of the same name.〔 ''Marvel Zombies: The Movie'' drew high praise and recognition from online comics communities and eventually went viral, later being featured on the G4 pop culture news series ''Attack of the Show!'' where hosts Kevin Pereira and Chris Hardwick called it "one of the most amazing fan movies we've ever seen".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MARVEL ZOMBIES The Movie on G4's Attack of the Show! )〕 With Monty Broussard, Ojala wrote and directed the 2011 science fiction thriller short ''Harvest'', a proposed pilot for a television or web series.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Harvest: A New Sci-Fi Thriller TV/Web Series )〕 The following year, Ojala was featured in Craig Chenery's book ''Blood Spatter: A Guide to Cinematic Zombie Violence, Gore and Special Effects'' and in 2013, he directed the music video for comedy punk band The Radioactive Chicken Heads "Deviled Egg", which was highlighted on horror channel Fearnet as their "Music Video of the Week". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jim Ojala」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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