It is very sad that the film industry lost one of its most gifted and innovative special effects artists recently - Stan Winston. Not only did he create amazing dinosaurs for us in Jurassic Park, the handsome and attractive Predator, but he also amazed us
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Producer Marcus Gillezeau recently used the XDCAM EX camera to film a surfing documentary. Amongst other things, he was really impressed with the slow motion effects on the camera.
Stan Winston has received a number of heartfelt tributes worldwide since his untimely death in June. Here are some of the tributes that have been sent to us.
Check out the cool new Virgin Blue TVC, which features very stylish and eye catching animation created by Resolution Design.
In the past, Cristina Ceret has created amazing contact lenses for some of Hollywood's most famous actors, such as Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and she most recently applied her talents to a number of actors who performed in Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
The Visual Effects Society (VES) has welcomed Australia on board as an official Section to the Society that represents more than 1700 visual effects and computer graphics professionals internationally.
Following on from our recent story in the latest issue of Smoke & Mirrors about The Laundry Warrior, which is currently in post-production in New Zealand, we talk to Dale Duguid, the creative director for Photon, about the effects created for the movie.
The VFX team at iloura is responsible for bringing to life a charming new animated character called 'Sensible' for the latest Cadbury Spring Valley TVCs. We look at how they created the effects for this entertaining commercial.