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Posted: Monday 16 June, 2008
Stan Winston, the four-time Oscar winner who pioneered some of Hollywood’s most memorable creature, character and special make-up effects, died June 16th in Malibu after battling multiple myeloma. He was 62.
Born April 7, 1946 in Virginia, Winston studied painting and
sculpture at the University of Virginia; throughout his career, he
enjoyed sculpting fine art pieces. He moved to Hollywood in 1968 to be
an actor, but the following year he changed course and became an
apprentice in the Walt Disney Studios Makeup Department, supervised by
Robert Schiffer. It wasn’t a huge professional departure for the young
Winston: As he told Make-up Artist writer Joe Nazarro in a 2001 interview, “I was the kid who loved the movies and loved the monsters and liked to scare people.”
Over the course of his career, Winston became best known as a
creature creator. His lengthy filmography spans decades and includes
either supervisory or participatory make-up, robotics and sculpture
work on Iron Man, Constantine, the Terminator films, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Jurassic
Park, Aliens, Predator, Inspector Gadget, Galaxy Quest, Artificial
Intelligence: A.I., Interview with a Vampire, Batman Returns, Edward
Scissorhands, Star Wars (designing Wookie costumes), Friday the 13th, Heartbeeps, The Wiz, Roots, The Thing, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittmanand
many others. He won four Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, six Saturn
Awards, three BAFTA awards and more than a dozen nominations overall.
He was a founding member of the visual effects companies Digital Domain, Stan Winston Digital and Stan Winston Studios. The
studio contributed characters and effects to more than 75 feature films
as well as several music videos and commercial spots. Winston produced
a series of films under the banner Creature Features, and produced a
line of toys and action figures called Stan Winston Creatures. He was
an advocate for make-up and effects artists, and one of just a few
special make-up effects artists to claim his own star on Hollywood's
Walk of Fame. At the time of his death, he was transforming his
physical make-up and effects studio into the Winston Effects Group.
Managing the new company as partners and owners are veteran effects
supervisors John Rosengrant, Shane Mahan, Alaan Scott and Lindsay
Macgowan. Winston is survived by his brother Ronnie, wife Karen, son Matt,
daughter Debbie, daughter-in-law Amy, son-in-law Erich and four
grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that charitable
donations be sent to the Institute for Myeloma and Bone Cancer
Reasearch, Free Arts for Abused Children and the United States fund for
UNICEF. Details about services will be announced at a later date. |
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Web Exclusive: Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Young Hellboy - Monday 04 August, 2008 |
| From a make-up perspective, the first major character to appear in Hellboy 2 is
a younger version of the hero, seen in a 1955 prologue with Professor
Broom (John Hurt). The Young Hellboy character was created by the
Barcelona-based company DDT Efectos Especiales and played in a
gender-bending twist by the company’s Montse Ribé. |
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Wake Up to Make-up! - Thursday 11 December, 2008 |
Australian make-up artist Napoleon Perdis has his own schools, his own cosmetics line, and now, his own reality show: Get Your Face On.
The program, filmed at Perdis’ flagship L.A. store, follows 12 make-up
artists as they vie to become his protégé. The one-hour, 10-episode
show debuted Dec. 8 on the TLC network and is airing every weekday
morning through Dec. 19. We asked Perdis to tell us more.
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Tales from the ‘Trek’ Trailer - Friday 12 June, 2009 |
Story by Steve Buscaino (with assistance from Ron Pipes)
Make-up artist and creature effects technician Steve Buscaino writes about working on the new Star Trek movie and what it took to put together a make-up lab to have on the Paramount lot during filming. Buscaino says the idea was to have a mobile lab that could travel with the production as needed, which he and his team had done for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. The Star Trek lab proved to be an efficient and cost-effective idea, on a much bigger scale.
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Paul Starr, Make-Up Artist to the Stars, Dead at 51 - Wednesday 20 August, 2008 |
Make-up artist Paul Starr, whose celebrity clientele included Hollywood actresses, rock stars, supermodels and fashion houses, has died. According to the Los Angeles County Department of the Coroner, he was 51.
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