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Learn how to create custom-fit articulated masks on a budget with Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights lead supervisor and owner of Magee FX, Patrick Magee (Primal Rage: The Legend of Konga, Men in Black 3, Jurassic Park III): www.stanwinstonschool.com/tutorials/articulated-ma…
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Joe Johnston's Jurassic Park III premiered 25 years ago in the United States.
Just as he had for Jurassic Park & The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg called upon the Stan Winston Studio team to design and build new dinosaurs for Jurassic Park III, as well as revamp some of those that had been featured in the previous installments. “We had achieved quite a lot on those earlier films,” 25-year SWS supervisor & co-founder of Legacy Effects, John Rosengrant said, “so there was a lot to live up to. We wanted to make the animatronics faster and better. At the same time, we wanted to come up with new designs and pump some energy into the old ones.”
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Learn head anatomy and how to sculpt a realistic human bust with world-renowned creature designer & master sculptor, Jordu Schell (Avatar, Hellboy, 300): www.stanwinstonschool.com/tutorials/human-head-ana…
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Today is the 27th anniversary of Steve Miner's Lake Placid. Stan Winston and his crew realized Lake Placid’s crocodile as a full-size animatronic puppet. Read how: www.stanwinstonschool.com/blog/lake-placid-buildin…
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Original Predator suit painter and award-winning FX legend Steve Wang (Predator, Blade: Trinity, Planet of the Apes) teaches you how to take your creature mask painting to a new level: www.stanwinstonschool.com/tutorials/creature-mask-…
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Today is the 40th anniversary of James Cameron's ALIENS.
In developing the ALIENS screenplay, James Cameron had recognized that the story would lack punch if it featured only those alien organisms introduced in the first film. In ALIEN, “they’ve seen the eggs,” Cameron said, “they’ve seen the parasite that emerges from the eggs, they’ve seen the embryo laid by that parasite emerge from a host person, and they’ve seen the embryo grow up into a supposedly adult form. But that adult form — one of them, anyway — couldn’t possibly have laid the thousand or so eggs that filled the inside of the derelict ship. At least that was my theory. So working from that image — acres and acres of these quite large eggs — I began to focus on the idea of a hierarchical hive structure where the central figure is a giant queen whose role it is to further the species.”
Whereas Cameron had relied on stop-motion animation for wide ambulatory shots of his full-body endoskeleton in THE TERMINATOR, he intended to shoot his queen alien live and full- size, interacting with the actors as much as possible. “Jim had seen what we could do with puppets on Terminator,” Stan Winston observed, “and so it made perfect sense that he thought of puppeteering techniques when he needed a way to realize the alien queen. But, even so, it was a huge leap of faith to believe that we could build a fourteen-foot-tall, acting puppet.”
(Text excerpted from THE WINSTON EFFECT THE ART AND HISTORY OF STAN WINSTON STUDIO by Jody Duncan)
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Today we say goodbye to Sam Neill, everyone’s Dr. Alan Grant and a hero of our childhoods. His iconic role in Jurassic Park left an indelible mark on kids (and adults) alike, inspiring so many to become paleontologists. He was a truly great actor. May he rest in peace.
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New blog! Explore how James Cameron and Stan Winston reengineered the xenomorph warriors using lightweight suits and clever practical effects to build a terrifying alien army guarding the Alien Queen: www.stanwinstonschool.com/blog/the-making-of-alien…
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FX wizard Richard Landon (ALIENS, THE TERMINATOR, JURASSIC PARK) gives an overview of tentacle mechanisms and teaches you how to plan to create a four-way tentacle mechanism for your creature puppets: www.stanwinstonschool.com/blog/types-tentacle-mech…
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New blog! Explore how James Cameron and Stan Winston reengineered the xenomorph warriors using lightweight suits and clever practical effects to build a terrifying alien army guarding the Alien Queen: www.stanwinstonschool.com/blog/the-making-of-alien…
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