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| Popular As | Colin Strause |
| Occupation | Visual Effects |
| Age | 48 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Scorpio |
| Born | November 8, 1976 (Waukegan, Illinois, USA) |
| Birthday | November 8 |
| Town/City | Waukegan, Illinois, USA |
| Nationality | USA |
Colin Strause’s zodiac sign is Scorpio. According to astrologers, Scorpio-born are passionate and assertive people. They are determined and decisive, and will research until they find out the truth. Scorpio is a great leader, always aware of the situation and also features prominently in resourcefulness. Scorpio is a Water sign and lives to experience and express emotions. Although emotions are very important for Scorpio, they manifest them differently than other water signs. In any case, you can be sure that the Scorpio will keep your secrets, whatever they may be.
Colin Strause was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
Since moving to Hollywood as teens in the mid-90s, Colin and his brother, Greg have charted a meteoric rise from self-taught artists working on local cable commercials in the suburbs of Chicago, to renowned visual effects gurus.
Their careers began on the original run of The X-Files television show before working their way onto early CG-driven features, The Nutty Professor, Volcano, and the iceberg sequence of James Cameron's Titanic.
Founding their own VFX house, Hydraulx in 2002, the brothers have worked on visionary sequences for over ninety feature films including Avatar, The Avengers, Skyfall, 300, Captain America, 2012, Iron Man 2, Battle: Los Angeles and The Day After Tomorrow.
Their work on the latter brought Greg a BAFTA for Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects.In 2000, Colin won a MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction for the Red Hot Chili Pepper's video, "Californication.
" This led to Greg and Colin stepping behind the camera the following year, crafting an instantly recognizable aesthetic on some of the decade's most imaginative music videos. Including Linkin Park's multiple VMA nominated Crawling, A Perfect Circle's Weak and Powerless, 50 Cent's Get Up and Usher's Love in this Club, also a VMA nominee.
Their storytelling talents quickly garnered attention in the ad world where they directed campaigns for Toyota, Universal Studios, PlayStation, Gatorade, Coca-Cola, Ford, Pennzoil and Shell.In 2007, Colin and Greg co-directed their first feature for 20th Century Fox, Aliens vs.
Predator: Requiem which went on to gross over $156 million worldwide. For their directorial follow up, the Brothers produced Skyline independently under their Hydraulx Entertainment banner. It was acquired by Relativity Media at Cannes Film Festival and distributed by Universal Studios.
The $10 million indie went on to gross over $80 million worldwide theatrically. Colin and Greg recently produced the even more ambitious sequel Beyond Skyline, starring Frank Grillo and Iko Uwais set to premiere later this year.
In 2015, Colin served as the lead Visual Effects Supervisor, overseeing over eleven hundred visual effect shots for Brad Peyton's, San Andreas. The Dwayne Johnson earthquake blockbuster went on to gross over $470 million worldwide while earning four nominations from the Visual Effects Society Awards.
The following year Colin supervised Adam Wingard's Death Note and reunited with Dwayne Johnson, co-supervising on the upcoming comedy Baywatch for Paramount Pictures. Colin is currently serving as the lead supervisor Brad Peyton's epic monster mash Rampage, marking the third Johnson collaboration in as many years.
Recently Hydraulx worked on X-Men: Apocalypse, The Conjuring 2, Midnight Special, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and Into the Storm. They served as the lead vendor on Rian Johnson's Looper, created the opening set piece for Marvel's The Avengers and completed more than a third of the revolutionary age-altering shots in the Academy Award®-winning feature The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Colin and Greg executive produced The Bay, directed by Barry Levinson and the critically acclaimed Cannes Film Festival-winner Take Shelter, starring Michael Shannon and directed by Jeff Nichols. Future producing projects include The Mighty 8th co-written by Kurt Johnstad and Alien Ark with Ratpac and Warner Brothers.
