- In addition to his visual effects work, Backes is a partner in Oxonian LLC, a media company he founded with author Michael Crichton and computer scientist David Smith. In late 1998, he began writing an untitled computer-animated feature film with Mark Dippe, the director of Spawn.
- Backes founded the American Film Institute Advanced Technology Program.
- He sits on the board of Steven Spielberg's Starbright Foundation, which uses film industry technology to assist seriously-ill children. He also sits on the advisory board of the Japan Electronics Show.
- In cooperation with the Kurosawa estate, he is also completing an unfinished screenplay by director Akira Kurosawa, based on a short story by Edgar Allen Poe.
- Print advertisement for Motorola Envoy (1995)
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