An Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning effects supervisor and commercial director who worked on Silent Running, Star Wars, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Battlestar Galactica, Galactica 1980, Firefox, Lifeforce, Invaders from Mars, Batman and Robin, Batman Forever and others. He's a founder of Apogee Productions and had teamed up with Blue Sky/VIFX in early 1998. Dykstra invented electronic motion control for the space battles in Star Wars, for which he received an Oscar. He was also the senior effects supervisor on Stuart Little (1999).