R.I.P. Stan Winston

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:09 pm

It looks like the special effects guru passed away at his home this Sunday at 62. Thanks for the memories! Aliens will always be one of my personal favs.

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:12 pm

And no more new Terminator effects from the master of special EFX...

I recall that Stan Winston did the special effects for the 3-D sci-fi/horror film of "The Parasite" with Demi Moore in her first starring role... ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Sly Cherry Chunks · Post by **Sly Cherry Chunks** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:15 pm

That really sucks. I guess EVERYTHING will be CGI from now on.

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:19 pm

Sly Cherry Chunks wrote:That really sucks. I guess EVERYTHING will be CGI from now on.

You can bet it will be CGI...Stan Winston was a master of real-time puppetry, stop-motion effects, radio-controlled models, wire-guided models, etc. All these different effects were used in the first two Terminator films, btw. He was a jack-of-all-trades when it came to his own special effects company...

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:35 pm

Hey we still have Ray Harryhausen, right?

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:51 pm

Turrican wrote:Hey we still have Ray Harryhausen, right?

His very last film was the 1981 fanasty film known as Clash of The Titans -- awesome usage of stop-motion effects from master stop-motion pioneer/master Mr. Harryhausen himself. ^_~

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Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:01 pm

Yup, Jaffe's first source of inspiration when making God of War, iirc.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:20 pm

Yeah Clash of the Titans is cheesy old school fun. I used to watch it with my dad all the time as a wee one. I loved that damned mechanical owl and the scene where the evil guy stabs the bag with Medusas head in it and the blood turns into giant scorpions.

I could have sworn I read somewhere that there was plans to remake this...

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:48 pm

Jon wrote:It looks like the special effects guru passed away at his home this Sunday at 62. Thanks for the memories! Aliens will always be one of my personal favs.

The guy responsible for creating my combat alloy endo-skeleton has passed. He will be sorely missed. RIP

*cries*

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:35 pm

Isn't Jon Dykstra still alive? Or is he more into computers and stuff?

Post by **undamned** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:39 pm

ROBOTRON wrote:
Jon wrote:It looks like the special effects guru passed away at his home this Sunday at 62. Thanks for the memories! Aliens will always be one of my personal favs.
The guy responsible for creating my combat alloy endo-skeleton has passed.

Memetic poly alloy, too?

Hey, did this he also do the creatures for the AVP movie? I thought those were pretty amazing w/o CG.
-ud

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:35 am

Predator, Aliens, Terminator all immediately come to mind when I think of Stan Winston. The guy was a legend, and sci-fi/horror films will not be the same without him.

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:51 am

Jon wrote:It looks like the special effects guru passed away at his home this Sunday at 62. Thanks for the memories! Aliens will always be one of my personal favs.

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

I can't live in a world where film is confined to disgusting excesses of computer graphics, and coming from a games collector, that really means something.

So long Stan, thanks for everything...

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