SIX-DAY Virtual Trek Con is FREE to Everyone and it STARTS TODAY with 35 Star Trek Celebrities. [35] It provides mentorship, grants and scholarships to underserved youth pursuing STEM-related fields. [28] On June 29, 2018, Disney revealed that the Stickman prototype had evolved into an innovative, autonomous, self-correcting, acrobatic style of audio-animatronic figure, named Stuntronics, which will be utilized within Disney theme parks throughout the world. In 2010, he designed the animatronic "robot skeleton" Geoff Peterson to serve as a sidekick on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. @grantimahara is one of the brightest. Roleplaying Everywhere (feat. „Am aflat cu tristețe știrea referitoare la Grant. Ulterior, împreună cu doi colegi, Kari Byron şi Tory Belleci, Grant a realizat o nouă emisiune, White Rabbit, pe Netflix, ce a durat un sezon. Your legacy shall live on! Grant Imahara (2012) Star Trek Continues: The Vignettes Sulu (2012) Eureka EMO Robot Scientist (2012) The League of S.T.E.A.M. Grant Imahara dead: MythBusters' hosts 'at a loss' as co-star dies suddenly at 49 GRANT IMAHARA, US TV host and electrical engineer, has died suddenly following a brain aneurysm. [34][7], On October 23, 2020, which would have been his 50th birthday, the Grant Imahara STEAM Foundation was announced by his mother, professional colleagues, and friends. [6], After graduation, Imahara was hired as an engineer for Lucasfilm's THX division; he then moved to the company's visual effects division, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), where he worked for nine years. RolePlay! Grant also dabbled in acting, appearing as Lt. Masaru in 2015's Star Trek Renegades, and he played the part of Mr. Sulu in the 11 episodes of the Star Trek Continues web series. In 2005, Imahara joined the cast of Mythbusters as a member of the Build Team, appearing in over 200 episodes of the series until his departure in 2014. May this vessel carry his memory into the beyond. Imahara also starred in several episodes of the fan-made web series "Star Trek Continues." Wish I could show you what I've been building, but it's still top secret! De asemenea, Imahara a jucat în mai multe episoade din serialul “Star Trek Continues”, o producție distribuită prin internet și dezvoltată de fanii Star Trek. His work has been featured in films from franchises such as Star Wars, Jurassic Park, The Matrix, and Terminator. (No kidding! ou. While at ILM, he was involved in several films, including The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Galaxy Quest, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Van Helsing, and Star … In fact, he also built the Deadblow robot that competed on Battlebots and was ranked #2 in the middle-weight division, and Grant even led a team that designed the modern Energizer Bunny! 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[3], Imahara was born on October 23, 1970, to a Japanese-American family in Los Angeles, California. [27] On May 21, 2018, he was included as an author on the Disney Research paper "Stickman: Towards a Human Scale Acrobatic Robot", which explores the creation of "a simple two degree of freedom robot that uses a gravity-driven pendulum launch and produces a variety of somersaulting stunts". [8] As an official Artoo Technician, he made a cameo appearance in the mockumentary R2-D2: Beneath the Dome. [4] For a time, he considered switching majors with the intention of becoming a screenwriter, but he decided to stay on the engineering track after assisting Tomlinson Holman, a professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. After graduation, Imahara was hired as an engineer for Lucasfilm's THX division; he then moved to the company's visual effects division, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), where he worked for nine years. [24], Imahara took an active part in advising Team USA in a giant-robot battle between American company MegaBots and Japanese company Suidobashi Heavy Industry. He often built robots that were needed for the show and specialized in operating computers and electronics for testing the myths. Grant Imahara, inginerul co-prezentator al emisiunii Mythbusters de pe Discovery şi al seriei White Rabbit Project de pe Netflix, a murit la 49 de ani în urma unui anevrism cerebral, anunţă The Hollywood Reporter. In 2015's comedy horror film "Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!" [32], Imahara mentored the robotics team at Richmond High School in California while working for LucasFilm's VFX. Page 1 of 2 1 2 Next > In particular, he was credited for his work in updating the aging R2-D2 robots for the Star Wars prequel trilogy. R.I.P. Certain people just have an aura of kindness and positivity that surround them, and Grant was one of those people. Writer/director James Kerwin created this bittersweet tribute to Grant Imahara, and we're honored to be able to share it with all of you. 49 years old, that puts him 3 years older then me. Caper (2014) Shelf Life Zhou Solo (2013) Team Unicorn General Grant (2013) S.H.I.E.L.D.E.D. I had not known of some of his work and having it all together in one place as you did helped me to honor his memory. [20], Imahara was a guest on TWiT's Triangulation (episode 121) on September 25, 2013. The further adventures of the crew of the USS Enterprise. This fan production is not endorsed by, sponsored by, nor affiliated with CBS, Paramount Pictures, or any other Star Trek franchise, and is a non-commercial fan-made film series intended for recreational use. Star Trek and all related marks, logos and characters are solely owned by CBS Studios Inc. [16], One of Imahara's independent projects, during early 2010, was constructing a robotic sidekick for Craig Ferguson, host of The Late Late Show. [7], Imahara has been credited in many feature films as a model maker. His years of friendship are precious to so many. All too often in our fan community, tempers flair, resentments build, and tensions can explode into full-on virtual warfare. [9], Imahara joined MythBusters on the invitation of friend and occasional employer Jamie Hyneman[10] and former ILM colleague Linda Wolkovitch, who was an associate producer of MythBusters. Se connecter. [11], Imahara reunited with Byron and Belleci for the 2016 White Rabbit Project, a Netflix Original Series, in which the team investigated topics such as jailbreaks, superpower technology, heists, and bizarre World War II weapons, evaluated against a defined set of criteria and explored through experiments, builds, and tests. But I never heard anything negative about him…just the opposite, in fact! 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