jean bolte

Jean Bolte

DAY JOB: Model Maker | CG Texture Painter

PASSION PROJECTS: Painting | Drawing | Sculpture | Mixed Media


Before turning her attention to her own artwork, Jean Bolte spent more than 40 years working as a visual effects artist. Early in her career she worked with Jim Henson on the film “Labyrinth” in addition to other projects. In 1990 she was requested by the head of ILM’s model shop to work on the movie Willow. She remained at George Lucas’s company for the next 35 years, supervising aspects of Star Wars, The Avengers, and Indiana Jones films. Jean was featured in the Light and Magic 2021 documentary tv series.


Bolte serves as a board member of The Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Visual Effects Branch of the Academy of Motion picture Arts and Sciences.


She currently is a full time artist working at Marinship studios in Sausalito.

https://www.marinshipstudios.com/

DEEPWATER HORIZON • AVENGERS: AGE OF UITRON • NOAH • PACIFIC RIM • TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON • RANGO • INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL • IRON MAN • ERAGON • JARHEAD • STAR WARS: EPISODE II - ATTACK OF THE CLONES • THE HAUNTING • STAR WARS: EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE • MEN IN BLACK • ERASER • JUMANJI • THE METEOR MAN • FIRE IN THE SKY • HOOK • CADDYSHACK II • WILLOW • E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (2002) • DEEPWATER HORIZON • AVENGERS: AGE OF UITRON • NOAH • PACIFIC RIM • TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON • RANGO • INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL • IRON MAN • ERAGON • JARHEAD • STAR WARS: EPISODE II - ATTACK OF THE CLONES • THE HAUNTING • STAR WARS: EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE • MEN IN BLACK • ERASER • JUMANJI • THE METEOR MAN • FIRE IN THE SKY • HOOK • CADDYSHACK II • WILLOW • E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (2002) •

DEEPWATER HORIZON • AVENGERS: AGE OF UITRON • NOAH • PACIFIC RIM • TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON • RANGO • INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL • IRON MAN • ERAGON • JARHEAD • STAR WARS: EPISODE II - ATTACK OF THE CLONES • THE HAUNTING • STAR WARS: EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE • MEN IN BLACK • ERASER • JUMANJI • THE METEOR MAN • FIRE IN THE SKY • HOOK • CADDYSHACK II • WILLOW • E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (2002) • DEEPWATER HORIZON • AVENGERS: AGE OF UITRON • NOAH • PACIFIC RIM • TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON • RANGO • INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL • IRON MAN • ERAGON • JARHEAD • STAR WARS: EPISODE II - ATTACK OF THE CLONES • THE HAUNTING • STAR WARS: EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE • MEN IN BLACK • ERASER • JUMANJI • THE METEOR MAN • FIRE IN THE SKY • HOOK • CADDYSHACK II • WILLOW • E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (2002) •

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