The FX Artist Poll
Creature FX artists who have gone on record about the "autopsy
film"...
Opinion - "Fake"
Phil Tippett
"That's a rubber guy." (Fox-TV news interview,
November 8th, 1996)
- Academy Awards: Jurassic Park, Return of the
Jedi
- Founder, Tippett Studio.
- Credits include: Starship Troopers, Star Wars
trilogy, Robocop trilogy, Dragonheart, Dragonslayer
- IMDB
listing
- Website: www.tippett.com
Stan Winston
"Do I think it's a hoax? Absolutely." (Time
Magazine, November 27th, 1995)
- Academy Awards: Jurassic Park, Terminator
II, Aliens
- Founder, Stan Winston Studios. Co-Founder, Digital Domain
- Credits include: Interview with the Vampire,
Terminator II, Congo
- IMDB
listing
- Website: www.swfx.com
Dick Smith
Dick Smith has been a makeup FX artist for fifty years, and
pioneered many of the techniques used in the industry today.
- Academy Awards: Amadeus
- Credits include: Little Big Man, The Exorcist, The
Godfather
- IMDB
listing
Steve Johnson
"I think it was made by excited kids. I really do."
(ABC 20/20
interview, April 4, 1997)
Also interviewed for "Alien Autopsy - Fact or
Fiction?"
His interview did not appear in the broadcast.
- Emmy Award: Special Makeup FX for Stephen
King's The Stand
- Owner/founder, Steve Johnson's XFX, Inc.
- Credits include: SPECIES, The Roswell Incident, The
Abyss
- IMDB
listing
Tom Williamson
"It's a b&w film of a little rubber dude, nothing
more."
- Visual Effects Supervisor, Computer Cafe
- Credits include: Armageddon, Lord of Illusions,
Ghostbusters 2
- Website: www.computercafe.com
Rick Lazzarini
John Vulich
- Emmy Awards: Achievement in Makeup for Buffy
the Vampire Slayer, Babylon 5
- Co-founder, Optic Nerve Studios.
- Credits include: The Dark Half, Night of the Living
Dead (1990), Day of the Dead
- IMDB
listing
Alec Gillis
- Co-Founder, ADI (Amalgamated Dynamics, Incorporated)
- Credits include: Starship Troopers, Alien
Resurrection, Alien³
- IMDB
listing
Tony Gardner
- Owner/Founder, Alterian Studios
- Credits include: The Addams Family, Darkman, Return
of the Living Dead
- IMDB
listing
Gordon Smith
- Company: FXSMITH (Toronto, Canada)
- Credits include: Natural Born Killers, JFK, Jacob's
Ladder
Bill Corso
- Emmy Awards: Special Makeup FX for The
Shining, Stephen King's The Stand
- Credits include: Planet of the Apes, The Grinch, The
Shining (miniseries)
- IMDB
listing
Joel Harlow
- Emmy Award: Special Makeup FX for Stephen
King's The Stand
- IMDB
listing
Mark Setrakian
- Chief Creature Mechanic, Rick Baker Studio
- Credits include: Planet of the Apes, The Grinch, Men
In Black
- IMDB
listing
Peter Abrahamson
- Animatronic technician, puppeteer
- Credits include: Born To Be Wild, Alien 3,
Dinosaurs!
- IMDB
listing
Scott Coulter
- Creature Animation and Computer Graphics designer
- Credits include: Devil in a Blue Dress, The
Prophecy, Mortal Kombat
- IMDB
listing
Andre Bustanoby
- Visual FX Supervisor, Digital Domain
- Credits include: Lake Placid, Titanic, SPECIES
- IMDB
listing
Bart Mixon
- Makeup and Visual FX artist
- Credits include: Beast, RoboCop
- IMDB
listing
Bret Mixon
- Visual FX artist
- Credits include: Terminator, Terminator II,
Terminator 3-D
- IMDB
listing
Opinion - "Real"
We have yet to find a creature FX artist
who believes the autopsy is real.
(But we're still asking around!)
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