"(...) Jamie made creatures at CWI (Chris Walas, Inc.) for features such as 'Arachnophobia' and 'Naked Lunch.' On 'Arachnophobia, he crafted spiders the size of a hand, each with more than two hundred moving parts. He designed the bone structure out of wrist watch nuts and bolts so small, "you couln't pick them up without tweezers. This was a challenge," Jamie says, "because nothing like it had been done before. Nobody had worked on that scale. We had to take a completely different approach since nobody had worded on that scale.

     At the opposite extreme, Jamie also worked on a moving 50-foot dinosaur constructed out of bulldozer parts, and on some of the amorphous and creepy characters (besides Peter Weller) that starred in 'Naked Lunch.'

     Not surprisingly, Jamie learned the imaginative and technical skills required for bringing fantastical things to life from eclectic sources. He grew up on a working farm and began his sculpting early in life. While running his own charter/diving business in the Caribbean, Jamie fine-tuned his mechanical know-how and his ability to orchestrate a crew (...) "There are striking similarities between being stuck in the middle of the Caribbean on a broken boat and dealing with a crisis during production," he quips. "Maintaining a boat is great technical education. On the water you improvise if something goes wrong. You cant just order the parts, so I fixed them myself (...) Likewise, it's important to be good with handling people: being with a crew on a boat and trying to get certain things accomplished is no different than gearing up free-lancers and in-house talent to see a project through (...) The actual work is very interesting and challenging,"he says,"I Love it passionately."