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February 1988 |
This issue is out of print and
available only as
black-and-white
photocopies of individual articles.
007
X 4 - John Richardson
In four of the last five
James Bond adventures, special effects supervisor John
Richardson has acted as an off-camera 'Q' to the indomitable 007 -
engineering a speedboat chase over a waterfall in Moonraker; flying
a minijet through an aircraft hanger in Octopussy, snaring a blimp
on the Golden Gate Bridge in A View to a Kill and staging a
massive ground and air battle in The Living Daylights. Eschewing
opticals in favor of full-scale physical effects or cleverly integrated
miniatures, Richardson has earned a reputation world-wide as an effects artisan
of consummate ingenuity and skill. Article by Nora Lee |
When a film script calls
for an actor to age, one name comes quickly to mind - Dick
Smith. In a celebrated career that has spanned more than forty
years, Smith has designed and executed aging makeups for such classic films
as Little Big Man, The Godfather, The
Exorcist and Amadeus. Smith discusses in detail the evolution
of old age makeup and gives an anecdotal account of his experiences adding
years and decades to such motion picture notables as Dustin Hoffman, Marlon
Brando and Walter Matthau. Article by Jody Duncan Shannon |
When producer Joel Silver
went to R/Greenberg
Associates with a script that called for an extraterrestrial being
capable of rendering itself virtually invisible in the jungle, the challenge
of creating such an effect - and others including it's thermographic
vision - was eagerly accepted. By employing a red creature
suit to generate mattes and a laborious optical technique for creating
a multifaceted quasi-invisible figure, visual effects supervisor Joel
Hynek and his crew were able to successfully render the alien in visual
terms that were both effective and unique. Article by Paul Mandell |
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