{"id":42865,"date":"2016-03-04T08:05:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T16:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=42865"},"modified":"2016-03-04T08:05:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T16:05:45","slug":"hutzel-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2016\/03\/hutzel-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hutzel Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Star Trek<\/em> Visual Effects Artist <strong>Gary Hutzel<\/strong> has died at the age of sixty in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>The news was announced on the Facebook page of <strong>Mike <\/strong>and<strong> Denise Okuda<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are reeling in shock at the sudden death of our friend and colleague, Gary Hutzel,&#8221; they posted. &#8220;His creativity, dedication and unfailing good humor helped make him a major contributor to the worlds of <em>Star Trek: TNG <\/em>and<em> DS9<\/em>, as well as <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em> and numerous other projects that were fortunate to benefit from his genius.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1955, Hutzel intended on a career in mechanical engineering, but decided to move to California and get into the motion picture industry instead.<\/p>\n<p>Hutzel began his Trek work on <em>The Next Generation<\/em>, moving over to <em>Deep Space Nine<\/em> in 1992 when it made his debut. Over the years, he earned nine <em>Emmy<\/em> nominations for both shows, winning twice; once in 1992 for <em>The Next Generation<\/em>&#8216;s<em> Conundrum<\/em>, and once in 1993 for <em>Deep Space Nine<\/em>&#8216;s <em>Emissary<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>After <em>Deep Space Nine<\/em> wrapped, Hutzel moved on to <em>SciFi<\/em>&#8216;s <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em>, where his work earned him seven more<em> Emmy<\/em> nominations and two wins. He also worked on <em>Red Planet, Spy Kids, A Wrinkle in Time, Bionic Woman, BSG:Razor, Virtuality, Caprica, Drive Angry, Battlestar Galactica: Blood &amp; Chrome<\/em>, and <em>Defiance<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek Visual Effects Artist Gary Hutzel has died at the age of sixty in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[8777],"class_list":["post-42865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-hutzel"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Hutzel030416.gif",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Hutzel030416-150x150.gif",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Hutzel030416.gif",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Hutzel030416.gif",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Hutzel030416.gif",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Hutzel030416.gif",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Hutzel030416.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Hutzel030416.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Hutzel030416.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Hutzel030416.gif",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42867,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42865\/revisions\/42867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}