Rick Heinrichs

Richard Heinrichs is an American production designer, effects artist, art director and film producer. He is well known for his work on the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, Ang Lee's "Hulk" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas". He started his career on visual effects on the other world sequence in "The Watcher in the Woods", Tim Burton's "Hansel and Gretel" and "Vincent" to later work on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and '. He also worked on "Frankenweenie". He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (now called the Academy Award for Best Production Design) for "Sleepy Hollow" (1999) and received further nominations for "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" (2004) and ' (2006).
He also contributed conceptional designs for Tim Burton's failed "Superman Lives" project.
Biography.
Graduated from the California Institute of the Arts (in Valencia, California), he started to work at Disney where he met Tim Burton and became a regular collaborator of his.