With Ridley Scott’s Prometheus looming enticingly on the horizon many of us will be revisiting the director’s 1979 classic Alien in preparation of a return to the Alienverse. What we have below is something in that vein.
Dennis Lowe has worked in special and visual effects from the late seventies, through a golden age of the technical side of the British film industry with Pinewood and Shepperton playing host to the production of some of the best loved films of the era. Thanks to the wonders of Metafilter I came across his personal site in which Lowe paints a homely picture of an exciting time in the industry,
This period was a fantastic time in the film industry and I remember well the relaxed and thoughtful ways we all set about making the models under the guidance of Effects Supervisors Brian Johnson and Nick Allder. Ron Hone was the boss in the model shop,...
Dennis Lowe has worked in special and visual effects from the late seventies, through a golden age of the technical side of the British film industry with Pinewood and Shepperton playing host to the production of some of the best loved films of the era. Thanks to the wonders of Metafilter I came across his personal site in which Lowe paints a homely picture of an exciting time in the industry,
This period was a fantastic time in the film industry and I remember well the relaxed and thoughtful ways we all set about making the models under the guidance of Effects Supervisors Brian Johnson and Nick Allder. Ron Hone was the boss in the model shop,...
- 4/16/2012
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Another great documentary has gone online from visual effects supervisor Dennis Lowe (Alien, Neverending Story, Labyrinth, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer). Lowe has become a prolific and valuable documentarian of visual effects history, starting out with his Alien documentaries a couple of years back, and recently looking into the life and work of matte painter Leigh Took (Clash of the Titans, Batman, Neverending Story II, The Da Vinci Code).
Now Lowe has turned his attention to one of the founding fathers of visual effects photography, the fine-artist-turned-matte-painter Percy Day O.B.E.
Day stumbled across the technique of 'original negative matte painting' when working as a matte artist in France for the production of Au Bonheur Des Dames (1931). Up until this point, matte painting was a very public spectacle, with the artist working live on location to add dimensions to a set by depicting scenes on glass, which would...
Now Lowe has turned his attention to one of the founding fathers of visual effects photography, the fine-artist-turned-matte-painter Percy Day O.B.E.
Day stumbled across the technique of 'original negative matte painting' when working as a matte artist in France for the production of Au Bonheur Des Dames (1931). Up until this point, matte painting was a very public spectacle, with the artist working live on location to add dimensions to a set by depicting scenes on glass, which would...
- 12/13/2010
- Shadowlocked
Dennis Lowe, visual effects worker on Alien and visual effects supervisor on a string of huge Hollywood films, has made yet another fascinating documentary in the wake of his amazing Alien documentaries. This time Lowe focuses on the painstaking art of matte painting, in the form of a look back at the work of esteemed Pinewood Studios matte artist Leigh Took (Clash of the Titans, Batman, Neverending Story II, Da Vinci Code), who also incorporates miniatures and...anything else that gets the job done into his extraordinary work. It's a great look at visual effects before and beyond the 'push-button' age, and you can watch the entire 72-minute doc right here or head over to Dennis's site at the link below...
Dennis Lowe...
Dennis Lowe...
- 11/1/2010
- Shadowlocked
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