A very pleasant #puppet parade tonight at #UVa in honor of the great #StanWinston . I say more puppets. https://www.arch.virginia.edu/events/stan-winston-steve-warner-festival-moving-creature-0
#stanwinston
Some cool stuff for the guys on the couch, as usual - but the real gem is hiding at the end 💎 if really cool CGI trains & explosions & "Polar Express" spoofs isn't your thing, skip right ahead for one of those perfect blends of all the techniques in the effects toolbox, from modeling & animatronics to motion control & digital compositing, all from a 30 year old movie: LeStat's death scene from "Interview With The Vampire" 🤯
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5TEEJiHaEo #CorridorCrew #StanWinston #VFX #SFX #movies
"Interview With The Vampire" isn't really the kind of movie you'd think of as a special effects film - but obviously it took some very creative effects to bring that story to the screen, so who do you call if not Stan Winston & his team?
#SFX Nerds will recognize people like Shane Mahan & John Rosengrant among the crew bringing these amazing effects to life 🙌
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4TJHaXs80Q #movies #StanWinston
All hail the great Pumpkin(head)!
Pumpkinhead is a film that doesn’t overcomplicate things.... click link to read more.
#1988 #blogging #cynthiabain #horror #jeffeast #joelhoffman #johndaquino #kimberlyross #lancehenriksen #monthofspooks #movieblog #pumpkinhead #pumpkinheadreview #stanwinston #thecraggus
YES! Pumpkinhead (1988) has arrived on Shudder UK for October 🎃
#Pumpkinhead #Shudder #ShudderUK
#StanWinston #Horror #80sHorror
#Film #Cinema #Cinemastodon
Invaders from Mars – 10:45am – Hilton 202 – Part of @DragonConVideo Track – A young boy witnesses an #alien spaceship landing and must convince the adults of an invasion.
A BTS look at creature development: https://bit.ly/3T0SFBE
Daily Challenge 2024, Day 15. This is my 3D sculpture of Archer from "Small Soldiers". #zbrush #3dsculpting #render #keyshot #fanart #3dart #dailychallenge #turntableanimation #archer #gorgonites #smallsoldiers #stanwinston
NinetyForChill: The #Podcast w/@CatBusRuss: “#AniMay Cinematic 6-Pack with Witches & @lancehenriksen”.
Does @studioponoc measure up to #StudioGhibli? Plus, “Kaboom” and “London Town”.
The #lancehenriksen flicks #films are “The Pit and the Pendulum” directed by #stuartgordon & “Pumpkinhead” from #StanWinston.
Threw some colors on that Winston Godzilla from last night. #Godzilla #kaiju #StanWinston #art #digitalart #CLIPSTUDIOPAINT
A Godzilla based on the Stan Winston design. #Godzilla #kaiju #StanWinston #art #digitalart #CLIPSTUDIOPAINT
Those Bullet Effects in Terminator 2 Weren’t CGI
Remember Terminator 2? Guns were nearly useless against the murderous T-1000, played by Robert Patrick. Bullets fired at the "liquid metal" robot resulted only in a chrome-looking bullet splash that momentarily staggered the killing machine. The effects were done by Stan Winston, who died in 2008, but a video and short blurb shared by the Stan Winston School of Character Arts revealed, to our surprise and delight, that the bullet impact effects were not CGI.
How was this accomplished? First of all, Winston and his team researched the correct "look" for the splash impacts by firing projectiles into mud and painstakingly working to duplicate the resulting shapes. These realistic-looking crater sculpts were then cast in some mixture of foam rubber, and given a chromed look by way of vacuum metallizing (also known as vacuum deposition) which is a way of depositing a thin layer of metal onto a surface. Vacuum deposition is similar to electroplating, but the process does not require the object being coated to have a conductive surface.
These foam rubber splash patterns -- which look like metal but aren't -- were deployed using a simple mechanical system. A variety of splashes in different sizes get individually compressed into receptacles in a fiberglass chest plate. Covering each is a kind of trapdoor, each held closed by a single pin on a cable.
To trigger a bullet impact effect, a wireless remote control pulls a cable, which pulls its attached pin, and the compressed splash pattern blossoms forth in an instant, bursting through pre-scored fabric in the process. Sadly there are no photos of the device itself, but you can see it in action in the testing video shared by the Stan Winston School, embedded below.
When you're done checking out the video, maybe take a peek at this fan's effort to create a T-800's arm.
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#classichacks #weaponshacks #cgi #specialeffects #stanwinston #t2 #terminator
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