Rick Heinrichs

Richard Heinrichs is an American production designer, effects artist, art director and film producer. He is well known for his frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton and his work on the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' series, Ang Lee's ''Hulk'' and ''The Nightmare Before Christmas''. He started his career on visual effects on the other world sequence in ''The Watcher in the Woods'', Tim Burton's ''Hansel and Gretel'' and ''Vincent'' to later work on ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' and ''Nutcracker: The Motion Picture''. He also worked on ''Frankenweenie''. He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (now called the Academy Award for Best Production Design) for ''Sleepy Hollow'' (1999) and received further nominations for ''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events'' (2004) and ''Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'' (2006).

He also contributed conceptional designs for Tim Burton's failed ''Superman Lives'' project. Provided by Wikipedia