Loren Bivens
Visual Effects
Biography
Loren Bivens (born 18 August 1942; age 82), is an Emmy Award-nominated computer effects animator and visual effects supervisor. He was an animator on Star Trek: The Original Series - Remastered as part of CBS Digital. Bivens and other members of the CBS Digital team earned an Emmy Award nomination for their visual effects work on the 2004 TV movie The Winning Season, for which Bivens was Lead CGI Animator. His other work with CBS Digital includes the films Blast (featuring Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr.), Riding the Bullet (featuring Matt Frewer), and The Last Sin Eater (starring Louise Fletcher), and TV movies such as Category 6: Day of Destruction, Category 7: The End of the World, and Desperation (the latter starring Matt Frewer, Ron Perlman, and Steven Weber). Before he started his animation and visual effects career, Bivens held many other occupations in the entertainment industry. He was the special coordinator for the Coen brothers' first film, 1984's Blood Simple. He later co-wrote, co-directed (with Adam Roarke), and produced the 1986 film Trespasses. Bivens was also a camera operator on this film and also secured locations for shooting. In addition, Bivens was the sound designer and post-production coordinator on the 1986 independent film Shadows of the Wolf. He then served as Director of Photography on the 1988 independent thriller Slipping Into Darkness. In 1994 he was a camera operator and production supervisor on horror film The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Bivens has even worked as an actor or a voice actor; he can be seen in Blood Red as well as a number of other independent and short film projects.
Known For
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
Blood Simple
A group of teenagers get into a car crash in the Texas woods on prom night, and then wander into an old farmhouse that is home to Leatherface and his insane family of cannibalistic psychopaths.
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.
Desperation
Wilbur Pope gets a horse to come live with him and his wife. But it's not just any kind of horse: It can talk! As you expect, Ed gets him into all sorts of trouble with Wilbur trying to straighten out the mess.
Mr. Ed
Militant feminist scientists brainwash research subject to assassinate the Welsh Minister of Prostitution. Meanwhile World War III is being fought and the USA has been invaded.
Taking Tiger Mountain
Three spoiled college girls are held responsible for a handicapped boy's death.
Slipping Into Darkness
A couple of drifters (Adam Roarke and Lou Diamond Phillips) molest Sharon (Mary Pillot). Franklin (Robert Kuhn) scares them away, but loses his son who is stabbed by one of the drifters. Franklin and Sharon commence a relationship to the chagrin of her husband (Van Brooks). Franklin's old friend August Klein (Ben Johnson) dies. What happens when murder and romance collide?
Trespasses
A couple passing through a small Oklahoma town discover that it has been taken over by a homicidal cult that worships a crow god--and that all the cult members are children.
Disciples of the Crow
A modern retelling of H.G. Wells classic novel, The Invisible Man. Motivated by the death of his son, Griffin, a brilliant but eccentric scientist discovers a method to invisibility.