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Mitchell "Mitch" Alan Suskin (born 1955) is an Emmy Award-winning visual effects (VFX) supervisor who worked on Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise, having left the franchise upon the conclusion of the latter series' third season. He shared four Emmy Award nominations for his work on Voyager, winning two of them. He also shared a nomination for his work on the Enterprise episode "Dead Stop".

Prior to being hired on Voyager at Paramount Television in July 1996 near the end of that series' second season, Suskin had worked at VFX companany Foundation Imaging, and it was Suskin who was instrumental in bringing his former employer to work on the VFX of that series, as he was the one who suggested the company to his superior Dan Curry, when the latter was looking to bring in another VFX company to work on the production. Replacing Michael Backauskas, who opted to leave the franchise, Suskin was paired up with firstly Arthur Codron and subsequently with Ron B. Moore to form one of the two alternating VFX teams for the remainder of Voyager. (Star Trek Monthly issue 31, p. 30) The first episode he worked upon independently as supervisor with Codron was Voyager's third season episode "The Chute". (Cinefantastique, Vol 29 #6/7, p. 103)

Career outside Star Trek

Before his time on Star Trek and holding a degree as Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Fine Arts, Motion Picture & Television from the University of California, Los Angeles, Suskin started out his career in 1977 as an uncredited model maker for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and subsequently as such for Industrial Light & Magic's 1941 (1979). As VFX coordinator he continued to work for them on E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (in which he had a cameo as medical assistant) and Poltergeist (both 1982), and as visual effects supervisor on Cocoon (1985), Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), and the 1984 film Splash. He was a concept artist for the creature effects of the hit 1987 film, Predator.

Suskin was a VFX supervisor on the popular science fiction series Babylon 5 at Foundation Imaging during its first two seasons (1994-1995), and subsequently a digital compositing artist at Flat Earth VFX for another popular contemporary production, the fantasay series Xena: Warrior Princess, before joining the crew of Voyager. After Star Trek, he later became the visual effects supervisor for the ABC series Lost (co-created by J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof) and the NBC series Surface. His work on the latter series garnered him an Emmy nomination, while his work on Lost earned him not only two Emmy nominations, one of which he won, but two Visual Effects Society Awards nominations as well, also winning one of them.

More recently, Suskin joined many former Star Trek VFX colleagues at Pixomondo Visual Effects (an international VFX house, founded in 2001) in 2010, continuing to work as a VFX supervisor on television productions such as, Hawaii Five-O (2011), BlackBoxTV and Hitting the Cycle (both 2012), as well as on the motion picture Mission Impossible IV - Ghost Protocol (2011).

Star Trek Emmy Awards

Suskin received the following Emmy Award win and 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, Koji Kuramura, and Adam Lebowitz
1999 Emmy Award win for "Dark Frontier", shared with Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz, Elizabeth Castro, Arthur J. Codron, Dan Curry, Don Greenberg, Paul Hill, Ronald B. Moore, Robert Bonchune, Greg Rainoff, and John Teska
1999 Emmy Award nomination for "Timeless", shared with John Allardice, Eric Chauvin, Arthur J. Codron, Dan Curry, Don Greenberg, Sherry Hitch, Greg Rainoff, Robert Bonchune, John Teska, and Ron Thornton
2001 Emmy Award win for the episode "Endgame", shared with Ronald B. Moore, Dan Curry, Arthur J. Codron, Steve Fong, Eric Chauvin, Rob Bonchune, John Teska, and Gregory Rainoff
2003 Emmy Award nomination for "Dead Stop", shared with Arthur Codron, Pierre Drolet, Steve Fong, Koji Kuramura, Sean Scott, John Teska, Greg Rainoff, and Robert Bonchune

Star Trek interview

"Computer Graphics", Anna L. Kaplan, Cinefantastique, Vol 29 #6/7, 1997, pp. 103-106

External links

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Mitch Suskin at Linkedin.com

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-'''Mitchell "Mitch" Suskin''' ([[Star Trek birthdays|born]] {{y|1955}}) is an Emmy Award-winning [[:Category: Visual effects companies|visual effects]] (VFX) supervisor who worked on ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', having left the franchise upon the conclusion of the latter series' [[ENT Season 3|third season]]. He shared four [[Emmy Award]] nominations for his work on ''Voyager'', winning two of them. He also shared a nomination for his work on the ''Enterprise'' episode {{e|Dead Stop}}.
+'''Mitchell "Mitch" Alan Suskin''' ([[Star Trek birthdays|born]] {{y|1955}}) is an [[Emmy Award]]-winning [[:Category: Visual effects companies|visual effects]] (VFX) supervisor who worked on ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', having left the franchise upon the conclusion of the latter series' [[ENT Season 3|third season]]. He shared four Emmy Award nominations for his work on ''Voyager'', winning two of them. He also shared a nomination for his work on the ''Enterprise'' episode {{e|Dead Stop}}.
-Prior to being hired on ''Voyager'' at [[Paramount Television]] in July 1996 at the end of that series' [[VOY Season 2|second season]], Suskin had worked at VFX companany [[Foundation Imaging]], and it was Suskin who was instrumental in bringing his former employer to work on the VFX of that series, as he was the one who suggested the company to his superior [[Dan Curry]], when the latter was looking to bring in another VFX company to work on the production.
+Prior to being hired on ''Voyager'' at [[Paramount Television]] in July 1996 near the end of that series' [[VOY Season 2|second season]], Suskin had worked at VFX companany [[Foundation Imaging]], and it was Suskin who was instrumental in bringing his former employer to work on the VFX of that series, as he was the one who suggested the company to his superior [[Dan Curry]], when the latter was looking to bring in another VFX company to work on the production. Replacing [[Michael Backauskas]], who opted to leave the franchise, Suskin was paired up with firstly [[Arthur Codron]] and subsequently with [[Ron B. Moore]] to form one of the two alternating VFX teams for the remainder of ''Voyager''. ({{STM|31|30}}) The first episode he worked upon independently as supervisor with Codron was ''Voyager''{{'}}s [[VOY Season 3|third season]] episode {{e|The Chute}}. (''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol 29 #6/7, p. 103)
 ==Career outside ''Star Trek''==
-Before his time on ''Star Trek'' and holding a degree as Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Fine Arts, Motion Picture & Television from the University of California, Los Angeles, Suskin started out his career in 1977 as an uncredited [[studio model|model]] maker for ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' (1977) and subsequently as such for [[Industrial Light & Magic]]'s ''1941'' (1979). as VFX coordinator he continued to work for them on ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' (in which he had a cameo as medical assistant) and ''Poltergeist'' (both 1982), and as visual effects supervisor on ''Cocoon'' (1985), ''Joe Versus the Volcano'' (1990), and  the 1984 film ''Splash''. He was a concept artist for the creature effects of the hit 1987 film, ''Predator''.
+Before his time on ''Star Trek'' and holding a degree as Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Fine Arts, Motion Picture & Television from the University of California, Los Angeles, Suskin started out his career in 1977 as an uncredited [[studio model|model]] maker for ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' (1977) and subsequently as such for [[Industrial Light & Magic]]'s ''1941'' (1979). As VFX coordinator he continued to work for them on ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' (in which he had a cameo as medical assistant) and ''Poltergeist'' (both 1982), and as visual effects supervisor on ''Cocoon'' (1985), ''Joe Versus the Volcano'' (1990), and  the 1984 film ''Splash''. He was a concept artist for the creature effects of the hit 1987 film, ''Predator''.
 Suskin was a VFX supervisor on the popular science fiction series ''[[Babylon 5]]'' at Foundation Imaging during its first two seasons (1994-1995), and subsequently a digital compositing artist at Flat Earth VFX for another popular contemporary production, the fantasay series ''Xena: Warrior Princess'', before joining the crew of ''Voyager''. After ''Star Trek'', he later became the visual effects supervisor for the ABC series ''Lost'' (co-created by [[J.J. Abrams]] and [[Damon Lindelof]]) and the [[NBC]] series ''Surface''. His work on the latter series garnered him an Emmy nomination, while his work on ''Lost'' earned him not only two Emmy nominations, one of which he won, but two Visual Effects Society Awards nominations as well, also winning one of them.
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 * {{y|2001}} Emmy Award win for the episode {{e|Endgame}}, shared with Ronald B. Moore, Dan Curry, Arthur J. Codron, [[Steve Fong]], Eric Chauvin, Rob Bonchune, John Teska, and Gregory Rainoff
 * {{y|2003}} Emmy Award nomination for {{e|Dead Stop}}, shared with  Arthur Codron, [[Pierre Drolet]], Steve Fong, Koji Kuramura, [[Sean Scott]], John Teska, Greg Rainoff, and Robert Bonchune
+==''Star Trek'' interview==
+*"Computer Graphics", Anna L. Kaplan, ''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol 29 #6/7, 1997, pp. 103-106
 == External links ==
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 [[Category:Special and Visual effects staff]]
 [[Category:Emmy Award winners]]
+[[Category:Emmy Award nominees]]