He also received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in 1984 for his work on the 1983 television film The Day After.

Blalack directed experimental films and mixed-media television commercials, and he produced visual effects for theme park rides.

He attended St. Paul's School in London[2] before receiving a BA in English Literature and Theater Arts from Pomona College in Claremont, California.

For Hearts And Minds (1974), Blalack animated director Peter Davis´s smuggled photographs of Con Son Island Tiger Cage prisoners.

[7] Blalack created a first-person subjective optical effects sequence designed to put the audience in the driver's seat of a Formula One race car for the film One By One (1975).

[14] Praxis calculated that the number of angles and shots that would be required to simulate a nuclear bomb mushroom cloud on 35mm high-speed blue screen film would not be possible to produce within the modest production budget.

Instead, Blalack decided to create both the nuclear bomb simulations and the missile contrails of US-launched ICBMs in a custom-built, computer-controlled water tank, where the interaction between the iconic mushroom cloud “cap” and “stem” could be separately controlled with precision.

[15][16] In 1984 Blalack received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement, Special Visual Effects for his work on The Day After.

[17][18] Blalack created and produced visual effects for many motion pictures, including: Blalack directed hundreds of multi-layered mixed-media USA and International TV commercials, produced by Praxis Film Works, Inc., for such clients as Cadillac, Chevrolet, Coca-Cola, Dodge, Hyundai, Kodak, Minolta, Panasonic, Papermate, Philip Morris, Union Carbide, Sharp, and 3M.

Blalack was in post-production on Daddy Dearest, a Praxis Film Works, Inc. production of his experimental 8K motion picture, at the time of his death.