Steve Johnson Launches His Channel “Rubber Rules”

There are several people in the SFX industry that can legitimately be called “masters” of FX.  The fact that Steve Johnson is among them, is indisputable.  His enormous body of work is not only visually stunning, but also inventive, interesting and technically complex.  Now, he wants to share it all with the world. Steve Johnson [...]

20th Century Props closes shop

Hollywood hits the auction block By SHANNON SMITH from Variety.com Lions, tigers and T. rex? Thousands of obscure and prominent props are on the auction block as Harvey Schwartz’s 20th Century Props closes its doors after 40 years. The auction is a rare glimpse into the work behind the magic of Hollywood, and a bizarre [...]

An Evening to Remember with Dick Smith

On Wednesday, June 17, 2009, AMPAS hosted “A Tribute to Dick Smith: the Godfather of Special Makeup Effects.”  A quick look around the audience spoke to what was to be an amazing event.  In the audience was a veritable who’s who of makeup artists drawn from all over the globe. The evening began with the [...]

Know Your History: “V” Make-Up Designer Leo Lotito

Lotito, whose credits include Planet of the Apes, is working with a crew of six full-time makeup artists at least 12 hours a day. “We are using a very involved and complicated makeup process in order to reveal the faces of the seemingly friendly Visitors,” Lotito explains. “Layers of foam latex prosthetics are applied to the actors so that when the outside human skin is pulled off, it reveals the reptilian prosthetics underneath.

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Forrest J Ackerman dies at 92

The Los Angeles native influenced a generation of young special effects fans with his Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine and spent a lifetime amassing a vast collection of science fiction and fantasy memorabilia.