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unusual facts about special effects



Barak Epstein

Epstein appeared in Lloyd Kaufman's 2005 DVD set, Make Your Own Damn Movie! while on the set of Prison-A-Go-Go! The numerous crew positions that Epstein has held include: gaffer, camera operator, editor, assistant director, production manager, director of photography, and special effects assistant.

Derek Meddings

Derek Meddings (15 January 1931 – 10 September 1995) was a British film and television special effects designer, initially noted for his work on the "Supermarionation" TV puppet series produced by Gerry Anderson, and later for the 1970s and 1980s James Bond and Superman film series.

Hawai Mare oki kaisen

There are special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya who would later co-create the widely popular Godzilla franchise and fully create the also widely popular Ultraman series.

Miniature effect

The first major use of the slurpasaur was in One Million B.C. (1940), which included a pig dressed as a triceratops, with the special effects in this film re-used often, such as in the 1955 movie King Dinosaur.

Peter Ellenshaw

William "Peter" Ellenshaw (May 24, 1913 – February 12, 2007) was an English matte designer and special effects creator who worked on many Disney features.

Stephen L. Price

Stephen L. Price (November 9, 1960 – May 22, 1995) was a visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic, one of the world's premiere special effects companies.

The Invisible Man Returns

The special effects by John P. Fulton, Bernard B. Brown and William Hedgcock received an Oscar nomination in the category Best Special Effects.

To the Moon and Beyond

Stanley Kubrick watched the film and was so impressed by it that he hired its special effects supervisor Douglas Trumbull to help make animations for his upcoming film, 2001, A Space Odyssey.


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1991 Metro Manila Film Festival

Viva Films’ Darna had four awards--- Best Supporting Actress (Tetchie Agbayani); Best Make-up Artist (Cecille Baun); Best Visual Special Effects (Carlos Lacap); and the festival’s Third Best Picture.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man

He also did the special effects for The Invisible Man Returns, The Invisible Woman and Invisible Agent.

Alex Zamm

As a writer and director, Alex’s resume includes music videos, episodic primetime television, movies of the week and several feature films, including the special-effects-laden action comedies Inspector Gadget 2 and Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 for Disney.

Atlantis, the Lost Continent

The spectacular special visual effects work of Atlantis, the elaborate miniature work of ancient Greek and Roman-style buildings, landscapes, temples, the volcano, the destruction of Atlantis, and the giant crystal ray machine, were the work of the special effects production company Project Unlimited, supervised by Gene Warren, Wah Chang, and Jim Danforth, along with the MGM production staff supervised by A. Arnold Gillespie.

Best Special Effects

The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, which was called Best Special Effects from 1939 to 1963, and included both visual and sound effects from 1939 to 1962

Byron Baer

Baer had a short-lived career in special effects, which included work on the horror classic, The Brain That Wouldn't Die.

Chewits

The original adverts used claymation special effects, similar in style to those made famous in the movies of Ray Harryhausen.

Dhamarukam

Firefly, the company which worked on special effects for films like Anji, Arundathi, Magadheera & Anaganaga O Dheerudu.

Doomlord

Initially pencilled by Gary Compton and inked by Heinzl, and later for a more extensive period pencilled and inked by Eric Bradbury, the strip was now unrestricted by budget or special effects constraints – the first page shows Vek warping into a bird and observing a road crash from aloft.

Edward Nassour

Edward Nassour born April 7, 1911, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA died December 15, 1962, Sherman Oaks, California, USA was an American producer, head of a motion picture studio, and a special effects animator.

Espedair Street

As Banks' first novel to eschew 'special effects', not being Gothic horror like The Wasp Factory, a literary mystery (Walking on Glass), or science fiction, most critics regard it as one of his most accessible works.

Fairview, Alabama

Lightning Bug is a fictionalized account of Hall's own childhood and entry into special effects makeup for film and television.

Fred Knoth

Fred Knoth (September 12, 1907-November 1990) was an Academy Award winning special effects artist who was the longtime special effects head of Universal Studios.

John Gaeta

2000 BAFTA Awards for Best Achievement in Special Effects, for The Matrix

John Steinhoff

His methods have also been used in creating special effects for movies such as Harry Potter and The Core.

Kasou Taishou

Especially in recent years, many of the skits have revolved around clever methods of "faking" cinematic special effects on a live stage.

Killer Khan

Khan had a role as a bodyguard in the movie 3 Ninjas Kick Back, and a cameo in 2006 Japanese special effects action series Lion-Maru G.

Last Passenger

During development, Nooshin and producer Zack Winfield traveled to Wellington to meet with Weta Workshop special effects head Richard Taylor, an avid train fanatic and supporter of the script.

Lee Lanier

After working for Buena Vista Visual Effects at Walt Disney Studios in Los Angeles, Lanier worked at PDI/DreamWorks in the San Francisco bay area—where he created digital special effects for the movies Shrek and Antz.

Long Pigs

Acting and the special effects were provided by Chris Bridges who also engineered special effects for 300, Dawn of the Dead, Blade II, Max Payne and many others.

Meador

Joshua Meador (1911 – 1965), an animator, special effects artist, and animation director for the Disney studio

Mighty Jack

Reportedly, Eiji Tsuburaya considered this series his masterwork because the focus was on the people rather than on the vehicles and special effects (the show never had any monsters or aliens, as his more famous shows Ultra Q, Ultraman and Ultra Seven did.) This focus on the people was similar to the works of Gerry Anderson, of which Eiji was a big fan.

Miniature effect

French director Georges Méliès incorporated special effects in his 1902 film Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) — including double-exposure, split screens, miniatures and stop-action.

Nandi Award for Best Special Effects

Anji and Magadheera are the only films which won both the Nandi Award for Best Special Effects and National Film Award for Best Special Effects for that year.

Nigel Bruce

He uncharacteristically played a detestable figure in The Rains Came (1939) which became the first film to win an Oscar for special effects.

Patrick Read Johnson

Starting out in the field of practical special effects and models, Johnson was one of the first people outside of Industrial Light and Magic to see Star Wars albeit in an incomplete form as chronicled in his semi-autobiographical film 5-25-77.

Peter Greenwood

During 1993 he worked as a costume and special effects technician on an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and on the movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III.

Randy Fullmer

In 1983 and 1984, Fullmer worked for Don Bluth Studios, creating special effects for Dragon's Lair and Space Ace, the first video games to be produced on laserdisc.

Redneck Zombies

Director Pericles Lewnes went on to work as a special effects supervisor on several other Troma productions, including The Toxic Avenger Part II, The Toxic Avenger Part III, and Troma's War, as well as Shatter Dead.

Rudy Jahchan

The primary writer and director of the shows, he also manages the technical aspects such as devising the special effects and developing their websites, and acts alongside his partner and co-star Casey McKinnon.

Savini

Tom Savini (born 1946), American actor, stuntman, director, and special effects and makeup artist

Science Week Ireland

The guest lecturers include Professor Aubrey Manning, a distinguished zoologist and broadcaster, Gerry Johnston, director of Special Effects Ireland, Dr. Cynthia Breazeal, Associate Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stephen Attenborough of Virgin Galactic and Patrick Collison, Irish Young Scientist of the Year winner 2005.

Simulation

This event transformed the film industry; in 1995, the film Toy Story was the first film to use only computer-generated images and by the new millennium computer generated graphics were the leading choice for special effects in films.

Sinch

Used in conjunction with a PowerBook, the buttons allow the operator to select video files to display, whilst employing knobs and sliders to manipulate and apply special effects to the images.

Songs from the Superunknown

The CD-ROM Alive in the Superunknown contains the first four tracks from Songs from the Superunknown plus a multimedia portion featuring photos of the band, a video game, four music videos ("The Day I Tried to Live", "Black Hole Sun", "My Wave", and "Fell on Black Days"), a performance/special effects video of "Superunknown", and a live video of "Kickstand", among other things.

Strassner Editing Systems

Over 400 systems were sold up to the time, in 1995, that Mr. Strassner sold the company to a San Jose based company - Videomedia, Inc., makers of the "V-LAN" hardware he used to physically control video tape machines (VTRs), video and audio switchers and special effects devices.

The Very Best of The Rascals

The single version of "It's Wonderful" ends with a coda of "Mardi Gras"-style special effects and party sounds that were not included in the album version.

Time Peace: The Rascals' Greatest Hits

#* LP version (without the "Mardi Gras" special effects coda) from the 1968 album Once Upon a Dream

Toby Sells

Sells and his special-effects makeup were featured on the October 30, 2007 episode of the Discovery Channel series Dirty Jobs.

Toy Story Midway Mania!

The attraction features more than 150 PCs, which includes one HP Windows XP PC for each of Midway Mania's 56 game screens, as well as others that control the special effects at each game.

Tsuburaya

Tsuburaya Productions, Japanese special effects studio by Eiji Tsuburaya

Tux Paint

Tux Paint includes a number of 'filters' and 'special effects' which can be applied to a drawing, such as blurring, fading, and making the picture look as though it was drawn in chalk on pavement.

Walter Percy Day

Walter Percy Day O.B.E.(1878, Luton −1965, Los Angeles) was a British painter best remembered for his work as a matte artist and special effects technician in the film industry.

Weather Proof

Weather Proof is a non-fiction television series aired on The Weather Channel in the United States hosted by meteorologist Stephanie Abrams, special effects expert Newton Wimer, and narrated by Mark Avery.

Who Wants to Kill Jessie?

The comics illustrator Kája Saudek participated as the creator of special effects and illustrations for the film.

William Cameron Menzies

In 1929, Menzies partnered with producer Joseph M. Schenck to create a series of early sound short films visualizing great works of music, including a 10-minute version of Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and created the production design and special effects for Schenck's feature film The Lottery Bride (1930).

Worlds of Fun

Snoopy's Hot Summer Lights was a one million dollar investment that uses special effects and sound design, custom designed for Worlds of Fun by Emmy Award-Winning RWS and Associates.