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07 Feb 2013 Stuart Freeborn
Rest in Peace Stuart Freeborn (1914 – 2013)

Lucasfilm has announced that make-up FX legend Stuart Freeborn - credited with among many things as designing and building characters like Chewbacca, Jabba The Hutt and Yoda for the Star Wars saga - has died in London at the age of...

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06 Oct 2012 Weekend Wisdom: Howard Berger on Stan Winston and SFX
Weekend Wisdom: Howard Berger on Stan Winston and SFX

Howard Berger is an Academy Award Winning special effects artist and the co-founder of KNB EFX Group. In this in-depth half hour interview he talks about how he got started in the business, being mentored by Stan Winston and how practical and digital special effects work...

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07 Feb 2012 Vietnamese Water Puppet Makers
Vietnamese Water Puppet Makers

A great (and rare) look at the men who build traditional water puppets in a small village in Northern Vietnam. This is from a documentary that Italian film student Alessandra Grassi is currently working on. She spent two months in Vietnam in 2011 and if this footage is any indication, her film is going to...

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03 Feb 2012 Mary Thornton
Happy Birthday to the Hardest Working Woman in Puppetry

I began my career as a professional puppeteer with Famous PEOPLE Players (FPP) a really acclaimed black light theatre company. I spent almost four years there in the late `90s and it was a really remarkable formative experience for me. It's safe to say that not a single day goes by that I don't make...

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