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Jun '08
Stan Winston, an Oscar-winning visual effects artist, has died at age 62.
Winston died at his Malibu home Sunday evening after a seven-year struggle with multiple myeloma, according to a rep from Stan Winston Studio.
I never met him, but I have a lot of friends who worked with him and always spoke of him highly. My relationship with him was through his work. The level of artistry and technique that he brought to puppetry was astounding. When Dad and I went to see Jurassic Park, I remember him leaning over to me to ask how the dinosaurs worked. At one point, I said, “They’re real dinosaurs.” I’d bought into the illusion thoroughly. Puppetry has lost an amazing talent.
Tags: Journal, Puppetry, Stan Winston
Gawd, no. Not Stan.
Oh, man. This sucks.
What you actually said was “They’re real.” I remember it clearly.
It still seems the simplest answer.
But anachronistic?