RIP Stan Winston

[Lord of The Curry]

Well this fucking sucks.

 

 

 

Stan Winston, the man behind some of Hollywood's most amazing monsters, has died after losing his battle with cancer.

 

The Oscar-winning visual effects artist died on Sunday at his home in Malibu, California, aged 62.

 

Winston won Oscars for his work in Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Jurassic Park.

 

He also created notable visual effects for hit films like Predator, Edward Scissorhands and Batman Returns.

 

His most recent work can be seen in summer blockbusters Iron Man and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

 

In a statement released on Monday, Terminator star and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called Winston a "genius" and "one of my best friends".

 

The action man-turned-politician added, "Stan's work and four Oscars speak for themselves and will live on forever. What will live forever in my heart is the way that Stan loved everyone and treated each of his friends like they were family... I will miss him greatly and am honoured to have worked with him."

 

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[Gary Floyd]

Goddamnit.

[Jingus]

What? Aw shit. I didn't even know he was sick. Hell, I didn't realize he was that old. Guess I'll be watching Pumpkinhead tonight.

[Darthtiki]

RIP

[tbondrage99]

RIP, there will never have another special effects genuis like Stan Winston again.

[tbondrage99]

RIP, there will never have another special effects genuis like Stan Winston again.

[AntiLeaf33]

A true genuis. RIP Stan

[luke-o]

This does suck.

 

Winston was the man.

 

RIP.

[Corey_Lazarus]

I think the only person even close to Winston still live and kicking is Greg Nicotero, who's better at gore effects and not awesome animatronics like Winston was.

[Jingus]

Yeah, the era of really good special effects makeup seems to be sadly riding off into the sunset with everything turning CG these days. Winston dead, Dick Smith retired, Tom Savini not doing much of anything. Nicotero and Rick Baker are still around, but they spend half their time just collecting paychecks from really terrible blockbusters.