Academy Award nominee and winner of Greenville High School’s “Outstanding Mold Maker” certificate, Shane Mahan. Shane started his career at Stan Winston Studio just as James Cameron and Stan Winston began a partnership that would span 4 features and 25 years pushing the technology of creature creation and visual effects further than anyone had ever Read MoreRead More
Visual Effects guru and a man who has designed the template for Vfx in films, Doug Trumbull is a true genius. Known for his ground breaking work on Kubrick’s epic future forward film “2001,” Doug Trumbull is a fascinating man to listen to and certainly holds court when he speaks about his craft. The SOC Read MoreRead More
Sly Stallone and Apollo Creed – Carl Weathers – demonstrate the precise moves that made Rocky the very first sports film to win the Academy Award for best picture! The masterful choreography made the punches the most exciting in the history of Hollywood boxing movies. This may be good time to note that the Rocky Read MoreRead More
Marc Donahue demonstrates his 15 camera Go Pro array for shooting Matrix Style “Bullet time” effects.Read More
Robert Nagle discusses his Biscuit Rig Jr. and life as a stunt driver. Robert Nagle studied mechanical engineering and racecar design before becoming a professional race driver. But when he found out that some of the other drivers were working in the film industry, it piqued his interest. Said Nagle, “What I found was that Read MoreRead More
For 25 years, Academy Award nominated Creature FX artist John Rosengrant played a critical role at Stan Winston Studio, becoming one of Stan’s most trusted artists, team leaders and supervisors. After Stan’s passing in 2008, he co-founded Legacy Effects, continuing a career that has been at the forefront of iconic character creation for over 30 Read MoreRead More
The production crew used the old technique of front projection to create the illustion of a home built 3,000 feet in the sky.Read More
The Stan Winston Studio gives a glimpse at the puppet work that went into Steven Spielberg’s Jurrassic Park.Read More
Here’s a short tour of the Laika Studio doing the stop motion animation for ParaNormanRead More
Building JURASSIC PARK’s Animatronic Dilophosaurus (aka The Spitter) at Stan Winston Studio. Live-action full-size dinosaur effects mechanic, Rick Galinson, details the processes and techniques used in building the iconic spitting dinosaur puppet.Read More
Sam Raimi employs an interesting technique with having video monitors puppets take the place of characters that would be later dropped in digitally. Sam Raimi was faced with a predicament. Two of the characters in his upcoming film Oz The Great and Powerful are completely fantastical (a flying talking monkey and a foot tall talking/walking breakable china ceramic doll) but Read MoreRead More
Lars Lindstrom, from the Slanted Lens demonstrates how to create a portable green screen on a small budget. The total cost of the green screen created is about $14. You will need: a green gabardine fabric from Jo-Ann Fabrics and Crafts and two “A” clamps and PVC pipe from Home Depot. We hope you will Read MoreRead More
