Pioneering SFX master Ron Thornton, dead at 59.

The man who helped make Babylon 5 possible (and on consumer-grade machines, no less) has died far too soon.

Because of his work on consumer-grade machines, he is also arguably one of the fathers of the modern fan film.

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