Special Effects
Charles Bowers
And one more.
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 29, 2019 -
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Category: Movies, Cartoons, Stop-motion Animation, Special Effects, Outsider Art, Surrealism, Twentieth Century
Maestro
Maestro from Bloom Pictures on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 23, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Music, Special Effects
Go! Go! Go!
Speeded up stuff is inherently weird.Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 23, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Crowds, Groups, Mobs and Other Mass Movements, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Movies, Special Effects, 1960s
Universal Everything
These CGI guys make some pretty weird videos.Superconsumers 1 from Universal Everything on Vimeo.
Emergence VR - Sundance trailer from Universal Everything on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 06, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Surrealism, Computers, Special Effects
The CGI of 1985
1985 Clio Award winning Television commercial done for Canned Foods Information Council by San Francisco ad agency of Ketchum Communications. [This] spot, "Brilliance," won in Computer Animation category and featured a voice-over by motion picture star, Kathleen Turner.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 06, 2018 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Business, Advertising, Food, Robots, Computers, Special Effects, 1980s
Peekaboo Mask and Triffids
Continuing with the theme of odd masks...London designer Hugh Skillen created this unusual "peekaboo" mask in 1952.
He later went on to design the man-eating plants in the 1963 horror movie The Day of the Triffids.
Newsweek - Jan 5, 1953
Janette Scott being attacked by a triffid — via IMDb.com
Update: I tried to track down more info about Hugh Skillen and have concluded there's some confusion about his biography. Seems there were two Hugh Skillens who both lived in London at around the same time.
There was a Hugh Skillen who was a military officer who helped to develop the Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during World War II, and then later worked as a schoolmaster at Harrow County School for Boys. More info about him here.
And then there was the Hugh Skillen who was a costumier, designing costumes for theater productions in London and occasionally working on movies such as The Day of the Triffids.
I don't think these two Hugh Skillens were the same, but IMDb lists the birth/death of the costumier as being the same as the military officer: Aug 22, 1915 to Jan 4, 2004. I'm betting the info is only correct for the military officer.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Mar 17, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, Headgear, Special Effects, 1950s
When Dad Does SFX for a Living
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 18, 2017 -
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Category: Children, Parents, Special Effects
Kenneth Strickfaden
Wikipedia page.
Article from 1935.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 25, 2017 -
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Category: Special Effects, 1930s
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