Tim Lawrence has worked in Hollywood for 25 years, specializing in Character FX.

As a performer he was an original Thriller zombie ('Tor') and also Nunzio Scoleri in Ghostbusters 2. He was an ensemble performer for Starman's Star Baby, Harry and the Hendersons* bigfoot face, a Ghostbusters Terror Dog, Caddyshack 2's gopher, McDonald's Mr. Potato Head, Gremlins 2's Mohawk and Brain Gremlin, Apocalypto's howler monkeys and others. He also did some stop-motion animation for Beetlejuice.

Mr. Lawrence began working in fabrication studios like the Rick Baker Studio, the Stan Winston Studio and he supervised the ILM Creature Shop for Ghostbusters 2. For his work there he was personally submitted for an Oscar.

For Jurassic Park* he worked in the Amblin story bungalow on the Universal lot with Steven Spielberg for six weeks. There, as part of the design team, he made the first Visual Development sculpts of the infamous T-Rex.

He has worked since then in the Story Departments of Warner Brothers, Sony, Vanguard and Dreamworks where, as a member of the design team, he and Loren Soman made the first Visual Development sculpts of Shrek.*

*Academy Award Team Member