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‘Sting’ – How Wētā Workshop Creative Director Richard Taylor 3D Printed a Practical Spider Puppet [Interview]

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Writer/Director Kiah Roache-Turner (Wyrmwood: Apocalypse) lets a monstrous spider loose this week with Sting, featuring practical effects from 5-time Academy Award® Winner Wētā Workshop, led by Creative Director Richard Taylor (Blade Runner 2049, King Kong, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy). Well Go USA releases the giant spider horror movie in theaters on April 12, 2024. In Sting, a mysterious object falls from the […]

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‘The Tank’ – Director Scott Walker and SFX Legend Richard Taylor Break Down the Creature Effects [Interview]

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A new creature feature from New Zealand filmmaker Scott Walker (The Frozen Ground), The Tank is coming to select theaters April 21, followed by Digital on April 25. Set in the 1970s, The Tank is about a young family who unwittingly awakens creatures at their recently inherited coastal property. Academy Award-winning special effects supervisor and creative director Richard Taylor (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Krampus, Braindead) […]

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Celebrating ‘The Frighteners’ at 25 and Peter Jackson’s Magical World of Miniatures

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Many of the best effects tend to go unheralded. Those effects are so well done that audiences never even realize what they’re seeing is an effect at all; it’s just taken for granted. The Frighteners, first released 25 years ago in theaters on July 19, 1996, marks a transitional film for filmmaker Peter Jackson as well as his […]

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