Sandy Collora

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sandy Collora (born August 8, 1968) is an American film director and design artist, best known for the independent short film Batman: Dead End. Collora was born in Brooklyn, New York. After freelance assignments in comic books and gaming magazines, at age 17 he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dreams in Hollywood. In 1988, after Collora landed a job at Stan Winston Studios on Leviathan, he became known as a creature designer and sculptor, eventually going on to work with Arnold Kopelson, Rick Baker, and Rob Bottin. Collora spent the next decade in concept design, sculpting, storyboarding, and art direction on major motion pictures. He designed the logo for Jurassic Park, and his designs can be seen in Men in Black, Dogma, The Arrival, The Crow, and Predator 2. He made his directorial debut in 1999 with the short film Solomon Bernstein's Bathroom. 1999 also saw the birth of his toy development studio and independent production company Montauk...