Steve Wang
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Steve Wang (Chinese: 王孫杰[1]) is a Taiwan-born American make-up artist and filmmaker.[2]
Biography[]
Born in Taiwan, he and his parents moved to the America when he was nine. His greatest inspirations were the tokusatsu superhero TV shows Ultraman and Kamen Rider, as well as Hong Kong kung fu films including Master of the Flying Guillotine.
As a veteran makeup artist and creature designer, Steve has worked with fellow veterans before him including Stan Winston, Rick Baker and Dick Smith.
He has received great praise for his film adaptation of the manga superhero Guyver in 1994 called Guyver: Dark Hero.[citation needed] Another project which drew attention to him was the direct to video movie, Drive, which starred Mark Dacascos and Kadeem Hardison. He also made independent films such as , based on a series of 8 mm short films he did years before. He and his brother Michael Wang, an award-winning commercials director, were hired in 2008 to work on Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight (an adaptation of Kamen Rider Ryuki), a second attempt at reviving the Kamen Rider Series in the United States, after Saban's Masked Rider of 1995. They write, produce, and direct as "The Wang Brothers".
Steve Wang designed a sculpture depicting Sarah Kerrigan (The Queen of Blades), a character from the Starcraft Universe in 2012. The sculpture was placed at the Blizzard Entertainment Office in Versailles, France the same year. He has also made statues of Tryndamere and Ryze, two champions from League of Legends, for Riot Games that same year.
Filmography[]
Director[]
- (1989) - 2nd unit director
- (1992)
- Guyver (1991) - co-director
- Guyver: Dark Hero (1994)
- Drive (1997)
- (1999 - TV show/pilot)
- Power Rangers Lost Galaxy (1999)
- Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (2002) - 2nd unit director
- (2003) - short film
- Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight (2009)
Producer[]
- Guyver: Dark Hero
- Kung Fu Rascals
- Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight
References[]
- ^ TWworldofwarcraft (2016-08-07), 阿薩斯雕像幕後推手 Steve Wang 王孫杰 - 專訪特輯, retrieved 2017-08-07
- ^ BBC Archived 2009-06-14 at the Wayback Machine
External links[]
- American film directors of Taiwanese descent
- American people of Chinese descent
- American make-up artists
- Living people
- Special effects people
- Taiwanese emigrants to the United States