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
Updated September 2021 with montage of stills and video clip One of my earliest adventures in fantasy film-making was the epic Fever, made in collaboration
Graham Edwards 