[bozzer]

royce who is your fav speacial effects artist

[roycefilmwriter]

Cross between many. Tom Savini. KNB. Rob Bottin. Rick Baker.

[dpcraig]

Me...haha...I kid, I kid.

Seriously, you have to love all who Royce lists and also Rob Hall, Dick Smith and Sergio Stiviletti of Italian Giallo fame.

[Craig]

Tom Savini has to be one of the best in the business.

[Matt]

Rob Bottin = legend.

[jasonsfury]

Matt, on 21 April 2011 - 02:21 PM, said:

Rob Bottin = legend.

Completely agree. What he did on The Thing alone must make him a legend automatically. Also, his Robocop work is top notch!

[jasonsfury]

dpcraig, on 20 April 2011 - 10:43 PM, said:

Me...haha...I kid, I kid.

Seriously, you have to love all who Royce lists and also Rob Hall, Dick Smith and Sergio Stiviletti of Italian Giallo fame.

Almost Human Effects is really, really good. Rob Hall and his crew create crazy effects. Everything in Laid To Rest was jaw dropping!

[roycefilmwriter]

Another guy who does top notch work but is not at top of peoples lists is Carl Fullerton. He did Friday the 13th part 2 and Silence of the Lambs. Stan Winston is awesome too

[roycefilmwriter]

John Carl Buechler does cool fx work

[dpcraig]

True, I guess it's due to what style you really want. JCB, Savini, Baker, KNB focus mainly on the physical FX like myself, but then Rob Hall and others combine CGI and physical FX. I'd combine, too, but my money and time are being spent on first adding RC/pneumatic animatronics instead of just puppeted motions like I've done previously.

[roycefilmwriter]

The fx in Rob Zombie's movies look grizzly.

[dpcraig]

That filtering that Rob Zombie uses, I've found is a great asset to using fake blood recipes that you make from cleaning products as your base liquid. Most of them will turn out rather dark purple, but that yellowed, grit filtering turns the coloring to a perfect shade of red. Most cameras naturally change the reds and greens anyway, but Rob's fav filtering really does work in an FX guy's favor.