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Todd Mcintosh – Speed Demon

Camera ready in under 1.5 hours! THAT’s television experience for you.

30Jun2008 | | Comments Off | Continued
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Make-up Visionary Wows Crowd at IMATS

Mentored by legendary make-up artists such as Rick Baker and Dick Smith, and a tremendous artist in his own right, Kazu is not simply your every day FX master.

28Jun2008 | | 2 comments | Continued
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10 Minute look at Spectral Motion and Hellboy

This 10 minute long look at the making of the effects behind Hellboy.  Spectral Motion’s excellence in creating and delivering the extraordinary vision of Guillermo del Toro.  Includes Abe Sapien, Sammael, and other characters and props used in the film. Enjoy!

24Jun2008 | | Comments Off | Continued
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Meet Lobisomem

Behind the scenes at Spectral Motion, showing the creation of werewolf character “Lobisomem” for the film Blade 3, but which ended up being cut from the final editing.  

24Jun2008 | | Comments Off | Continued
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Rumor Mill – Army of the Dead

Word is it that a small FX shop in Burbank has landed one of the few games in town.  A move called Army of the Dead has found a FX home.  Still many weeks out from beginning even designing the work, speculation is that the shop that was chosen will have the pick of the litter from [...]

22Jun2008 | | Comments Off | Continued
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MUATV coming soon to a webcast near you

While at the trade show this weekend, one of the things I remember seeing was a professional video crew wandering the show.  In and of itself this is not so unusual however, it was a group calling themselves MUATV (read: Make-Up Artist TV).  I decided to look at their website and apparently they are launching [...]

22Jun2008 | | Comments Off | Continued
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IMATS US kicks off in Pasadena, CA this weekend

Thousands of make-up artists, vendors, manufacturers and enthusiasts are decending on Southern California this weekend for the make-up world’s biggest gathering to discuss, display, discover and collect the best the industry has to offer. If you’ve ever wanted to learn the techniques or experiment with the products, or if you just have an interest in [...]

20Jun2008 | | Comments Off | Continued
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Moment of Silence: Stan Winston Dies at 62

One of the greatest special effects masters of our time has passed. Stan Winston has been an driving force behind the most stunning visual effects the world has ever seen. To millions of movie-goers all over the world he was the FX guy behind the Terminator, Predator, Iron Man and the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park. [...]

16Jun2008 | | Comments Off | Continued
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Know Your History: Dick Smith on Little Big Man

Very short documentary on Dick Smith talking about his makeup on “Little Big Man”. VERY RARE, amazing and ground breaking makeup.

15Jun2008 | | Comments Off | Continued
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SAG effort to defeat AFTRA contract sparks internal rebellion

New York members of the guild’s board criticize what they call an ‘unconscionable attempt to interfere with the internal business of a sister union.’

14Jun2008 | | Comments Off | Continued
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