Special Effects: An Oral History--Interviews with 37 Masters Spanning 100 Years

15,000 first printin. Spanning a century of film technology from the early innovations of George M li s to the most recent Matrix films, a tribute to the use of illusion in movies features interviews with thirty-seven international special effects masters and more than 1,000 illustrations, in a volume complemented by a list of recommended DVD films

Since 1985, he has visited with special effects masters throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Australia. . Pascal Pinteau is a journalist, screenwriter, and special effects designer who has created special effects for commercials, TV shows, and theme parks

Pinteau's insightful interviews shed light on small-screen grand illusions, too, and the book's amazing photographs depict such fascinating metamorphoses as Marlon Brando's in The Godfather (he wore dental prosthetics to create jowls) and makeup tests for The Exorcist. From Publishers Weekly Pinteau is in awe of special effects, and rightfully so: the ability to use animation, animatronics, makeup, modelmaking and computer trickery is both an art and a science. . Disney and Jim Henson. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Among Pinteau's i

Informative but so bizarrely organized! Hope Mark It`s a thick book, really heavy and full of stuff! Lot`s of articles and pictures, right the word is dense. It`s so dense with info, that you don`t know where to start and then where to finish it. And you eyes with hurt from all these tiny images scattered around the pages all at once.The drawbacks of this huge folio is - it`s soooo bizarrely organized that you start having headaches trying to organize the info in. "Excellent despite faults" according to Nicholas B. Hilligoss. The book covers the subject very well, but has a number of minor errors. Sometimes they are represented as quotes by someone who would obviously know better. Example - it has stopmotion animator Phil Tippet saying you remove the surface gauge, then move the puppet, then put it back in the same place to measure the move, which I very much doubt he said. (You leave the gauge there while you move the puppet so you ca. "Mind Bending Eye Candy" according to Joe Soundtrack. As a charter subscriber to Cinefex magazine, the 25-year industry bible for visual effects, I'm no stranger to this topic. But flipping through Pinteau's book yielded some exciting revelations and mostly, It did not disappoint. The book promises interviews with masters "spanning 100 years" although it skews pretty heavily to the past decade (not a surprise). But I bought it for the pictures and they made it worth