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Creature Designer, Jordu Schell offering fall classes

Schell Sculpture Studio Jordu Schell, known in the biz as a top tier character designer, has announced via Facebook and his website that he will be hold ing a class for his out of town students. ATTENTION OUT-OF-TOWN STUDENTS: Many individuals have expressed an interest in our classes, but cannot manage five weeks. In the [...]

24Aug2010 | Editor | 0 comments | Continued
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The Man Behind the (Star Trek) Makeup: Barney Burman

StarTrek.com – Barney Burman won an Oscar, his first, as part of the makeup team that brought to life the creatures in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek feature. But that film wasn’t his first foray into the Star Trek universe; far from it in fact. Makeup F/X runs in his blood and several family members are not only [...]

23Jul2010 | Editor | 2 comments | Continued
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Ray Harryhausen 90th Birthday BAFTA & BFI Gala Celebration

By Mintyblonde (Minty’s Menagerie) It’s beginning to look like a vintage year in terms of NFT activity, as well as a few very exciting events and seasons coming up over the next few months I attended a very special gala celebration yesterday evening, a BAFTA sponsored tribute to one of the few remaining bona-fide legends, a technician without [...]

2Jul2010 | Editor | Comments Off | Continued
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Sam Raimi May Direct ‘Wizard of Oz’ Prequel

by Christopher Campbell Jun 13th 2010 // 11:02AM via Cinematical Ever since Sam Mendes told Disney he wouldn’t direct the Wizard of Oz prequel, Oz, the Great and Powerful, a number of filmmakers have been linked to the project as possible substitutes. Even Guillermo del Toro was rumored to be considered. But nowVulture reports that Sam Raimi has been officially [...]

14Jun2010 | Editor | Comments Off | Continued
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Guillermo Del Toro departs “The Hobbit”

May 30th, 2010 by xoanon for theonering.net Guillermo Del Toro announced today that he is no longer directing the two movies based on J.R.R Tolkien’s “The Hobbit”, but will continue to co-write the screenplays. Out of respect to the legions of loyal Tolkien fans, both Guillermo and Peter Jackson wanted to break the news to The [...]

1Jun2010 | Editor | Comments Off | Continued
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Freaky Weta Legs Go On Sale.

Aah New Zealand, full of lush forests, rugged mountains and amazingly ingenious people who seem to have lots of time on their hands.  Have you ever wanted to (safely) look like you are over seven feet tall and have goat legs?  Introducing Weta Legs!  For an early time, the price is only $795 US and you too [...]

6May2010 | Editor | Comments Off | Continued
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‘The Hobbit’ Officially Pushed to 2013

Cinematical has a story that Warner Bros. and IMAX Corp. have just issued a joint press release announcing a partnership through 2013 that will include placing upwards of 20 Warner Bros. films into IMAX theaters, as well as conventional theaters. The biggest news to come out of this whole thing is a tentative release date [...]

29Apr2010 | Editor | Comments Off | Continued
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ADI Gives Birth to 21 Foot Tall Creepy Robotic Infant

500x_giantbaby2 The team at Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. have created a 21 foot tall infant for Shanghai’s Expo 2010.  The baby’s “Mother” is film director Isabel Coixet who has pointed out that with this collaboration she has wanted to stay accurate to the Expo Shanghai’s Theme, “Better city, better life”. Also that Miguelín (the giant baby) [...]

28Apr2010 | Editor | Comments Off | Continued
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Make-Up-FX_Forum.Com to host a Live Chat With Stuart Bray

What are you doing Thursday 29th April between 7.30pm and 9:30pm GMT  (12:30 pm 2:30pm PDT)?  Whatever it is, it can wait.  Unless you have to pee, login to the Live chatroom on http://www.make-up-fx-forum.com and take part!  Details below.  On second thought, pee on your own time. Live Chatroom Session 29th April 2010″Getting into Make-up [...]

20Apr2010 | Editor | Comments Off | Continued
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Predators Trailer Arrives: Hold onto your butts.

They’re not in Kansas anymore.  A group of the world’s most highly trained killers, mercenaries and bad-asses get transported to a intergalactic game preserve where they…are the game.  Nimrod Antal helms this refresh of the franchise and so far — not an alien in sight.  Of course the predators look amazing thanks to K.N.B. EFX [...]

19Mar2010 | Editor | Comments Off | Continued
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