Rick Heinrichs

A production designer known for his visually evocative work and creative alliances with some of cinema's most compellingly inspired directors and storytellers, Rick Heinrichs has conceived and built cinematic worlds for scripted characters to inhabit as vast and deep as a galaxy far, far away, and as spare and flat as a Midwestern winterscape. Collaborations have included work with Rian Johnson, Tim Burton, Joel and Ethan Coen, Gore Verbinski, Joe Johnston, Ang Lee, Harold Ramis, Spike Jonze, Henry Selick, Scott Derrickson, and Brad Silberling, as well as series television and commercials for the likes of Steven Soderbergh, David Fincher, Agnieszka Holland, and Peter Bogdanovich. He won an Oscar, BAFTA and ADG awards for Art Direction for his work featured in in "Sleepy Hollow". With early experience in animation at the Disney Studio, theme park design at Disney Imagineering, art direction for VFX, and as a Set Designer and then Art Director for live action films, Rick has developed conceptual workflows that weave together the requirements of a film's practical build and location shoot into virtual pipelines compatible with VFX processes necessary for world-building and other narrative environments. Rick says he's always on the lookout to collaborate on novel challenges of the imagination with similarly-spirited filmmakers.