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Know Your History: Rick Baker Makes a Kinder, Gentler Bigfoot.

      Set the way back meter for 1987 and come along on a video journey to watch Rick Baker as he introduces Harry.  Harry and the Hendersons Directed by William Dear and starring John Lithgow featured a beast never before seen by cinema audiences.  The film centers around a kind-hearted bigfoot creature played [...]

6Feb2010 | Editor | Comments Off | Continued
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Steve Johnson’s Rubber Rules – Get Slimed Part 1

“Get Slimed: The Making of the Classic Animatronic Character” Go behind the scenes to see how Slimer (known as Onion Head in the script) was made for the smash hit film “Ghostbusters”!

27Nov2009 | Editor | Comments Off | Continued
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Steve Johnson Doesn’t Want a F**king Oscar

Steve Johnson’s Rubber Rules has become a reason to watch Youtube again for me.  Finally someone telling it like it is without all the “We’re just a great big happy production” feel.  Steve talks about how The Abyss’s clear NTIs were a challenge and how the fiber optics lit the underwater puppets.  Also, there is [...]

15Nov2009 | Editor | Comments Off | Continued
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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 [...]

31Oct2009 | Editor | Comments Off | Continued
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Animatronics Guru Video

A nice video with a small collection of projects he was involved in whilst working as a mechanical designer at Jim Hensons Creature Shop. Feel free to e.mail him any questions or comments you may have.ady-ajay@ntlworld.com

14Oct2009 | Editor | Comments Off | Continued
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Speed Punching a Brow in 3:35 flat!

Rufus Hearn attempts to break his own record of 3:26 punching a silicone head’s eyebrow. Roughly an hour’s work in the hands of most, he makes short work of it – with style.

13Apr2009 | Editor | Comments Off | Continued