John Dykstra Autographs
John Charles Dykstra, A.S.C. (/ˈdaɪkstrə/; born June 3, 1947) is an American special effects artist, pioneer in the development of the use of computers in filmmaking and recipient of three Academy Awards, among many other awards and prizes. He was one of the original employees of Industrial Light & Magic, the special effects and computer graphics division of Lucasfilm. He is well known as the special effects lead on the original Star Wars, helping bring the original visuals for lightsabers, space battles between X-wings and TIE fighters, and Force powers to the screen. He also led special effects on many other movies, including Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Stuart Little, X-Men: First Class, Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2.
Dykstra was born in Long Beach, California. After studying industrial design at California State University, Long Beach (where he was a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity), in 1971 he landed a job working with Douglas Trumbull on Silent Running filming model effects, when Trumbull hired recent college graduates due to the film's low budget.
In 1975, when George Lucas was recruiting people for the special effects work on Star Wars, he approached Douglas Trumbull, but he was unavailable as he was about to start working on Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Trumbull pointed Lucas towards Dykstra. Lucas formed his own special effects company, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), based in warehouse premises in Van Nuys, and appointed Dykstra to supervise the new team, many of whom he worked with previously on Trumbull's "Silent Running." This led to the development of the Dykstraflex motion-controlled camera, which enabled many of the film's groundbreaking effects to be produced. The system was made possible by the availability of off-the-shelf integrated-circuit RAM at relatively low cost and secondhand VistaVision cameras.
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Current items with a signature of John Dykstra
These are the most current items with a signature of John Dykstra that were listed on eBay and on other online stores - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | 2007 Topps Star Wars 30th Anniversary Autograph Trading Card John Dykstra Auto | $113.41 |  |
| 2007 Topps Star Wars 30th Anniversary Autograph Trading Card John Dykstra Auto | $113.41 | |
Traded items with a signature of John Dykstra
The most expensive item with a signature of John Dykstra (Star Wars IV A New Hope Production Used Storyboard Signed by John Dykstra) was sold in April 2022 for $600.00 while the cheapest item (JOHN DYKSTRA Hand Signed Autograph 4X6 Photo -- SPECIAL EFFECTS STAR WARS) found a new owner for $0.01 in June 2024. The month with the most items sold (8) was January 2026 with an average selling price of $58.25 for an autographed item of John Dykstra. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in January 2024 with $299.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.75 was January 2022. In average, an autographed item from John Dykstra is worth $39.99.
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