Cinefex, in case you didn’t know, is a quarterly magazine about visual effects – specifically, behind-the-scenes articles on major movies. I’ve got a big stack
Category: FX
>An evening’s Ironing
>Saw Iron Man 2 last night. Great fun, especially the rapid-fire banter between Robert Downey Jr and his various co-stars. Sam Rockwell and Mickey Rourke
>Dig the morphing cityscape …
>… in Alex Proyas’s SF-noir-mystery movie Dark City. If you haven’t seen this late-90s gem, make up for it now. Jennifer Connelly, Richard O’Brien, dancing
>Dig the zero-g pen …
>… in 2001: A Space Odyssey. To make Dr Heywood Floyd’s pen float across the shuttle’s interior, Kubrick’s team stuck it on a piece of
>Opening the 8mm archive
>As threatened, here are a couple of bits of animation from those scratchy old 8mm movies I used to make back in the ’80s. Since
>Dig the demonic dressing gown
>One of my earliest adventures in fantasy film-making was the epic Fever, made in collaboration with my long-time buddy Phil Tuppin. It was a four-minute
