Monday, June 16, 2008

The Great Creature Maker is gone.


This is just breaking. AP hasn't even got it.
San Winston passed away of cancer yesterday.
The Geek wire is passing this news about.
Click Title to see him at the Gnomon workshop, either the day of or day before his death.

9 comments:

Mr Goodson said...

I saw this at work. Winston really had no peer. Practical effects just got that much more unlikely in genre films not that he is dead.

Beata said...

He will be sorely missed ...

Mr Goodson said...

NOW that he is dead.

james said...

B. You need to get an Icon.

Krayonzilla said...

Yah, need an icon.

Mr Goodson said...

I wnet to the Gnomon workshop this weekend. They just published a pic from the workshop and none other than Stan Winston is in the middle of the shot...He must have went home after the show and went to the hospital..

I'll make the title the link. Check it out

Davis Chino said...

I remember Bluesky parcelling out the foam models used in the Sega Genesis "Jurassic Park" game to distinguished team members--and didn't Doug take the Raptor for hisse'f?

Wait a minute, were those models from Winston...or Tippet??

Mr Goodson said...

Tippet. But Doug also got to visit the Winston studio and see the big animatronic dinos. Probably the height of jealousy in my life. So it was good. Everything got easier after I got that out of my system. After about 3 years.

Beata said...

OK, James, so I need an icon. Actually I rather like yours. It's kind of mysterious ...

How about if I copy it and just call myself the Invisible Woman?