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Elcarimat is an Argentinean company that does amazing creature and special effects. They’ve been around since 1990 specializing in the design and integrated production of characters and creatures. Christian Gruaz created and currently directs the company that creates animatronic characters, puppets and makeup special effects.

  They’ve done work for movies, TV, stage and more.

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Special Effects fans, one of the more exciting new TV shows out there is Fringe. The plot: The FBI teams up with a formerly-institutionalized scientist – who was performing experiments on the fringe of real science – and his son to investigate weird crimes that are seemingly part of a larger pattern, and may be connected with a global company called massive Dynamics.

  Lot’s of experience goes into what we’ll see on the small screen:

   Kymbra C. Kelley (The Sopranos, Cashmere Mafia) is the  makeup department head.

   Conrad V. Brink Jr.( I am Legend, Indiana Jones, Cloverfield) is the  special effects coordinator.

   Christopher Scollard (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Alien: Resurrection, Fight Club) is the visual effects supervisor for the New York crew.

   Jay Worth (Cloverfield, Lake Placid, Lost) is the  visual effects supervisor for the  Los Angeles crew.

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Vanessa Zachos

Fri, 17 Apr 2009

South African actress Vanessa Zachos can be seen in the British horror film, Credo, premiering in the UK on Monday 20 April as part of the London Independent Film Festival 2009 Official Selection.

Zachos makes her professional acting debut alongside well known actors such as Colin Salmon (Die Another Day/ Resident Evil), Stephen Gately (Boyzone) and Clayton Watson (Matrix) in the prologue of this teenage horror flick. She plays the role of one of five theology students who are persuaded to summon up a demon in order to prove the existence of evil.
      “Horror is a genre I’ve always been rather passionate about, so being a part of Credo was really exciting for me,” says Zachos.
    The Johannesburg actress has been honing her acting skills in the UK. In 2008 she was selected at the Durban International Film Festival as one of 40 to represent South Africa at the Berlinale Talent Campus.
     Zachos has also completed filming her first leading role as the love interest in a British indie feature, and is attached to two UK features, which are currently in development.
Credo will be released 25 May on DVD in the UK.

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Weta Workshop

April 12, 2009

Weta Workshop, the multiple Academy Award-winning world leader in special makeup, creature and visual effects (THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, KING KONG and THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA films), will design and provide the practical alien creature effects in the movie.

SKYRUNNERS begins as teenage brothers Tyler (Joey Pollari) and Nick Burns (Blatz) commandeer a small UFO that crashes near their town. They soon realize that the spacecraft is “alive” and Tyler

In addition to Pollari and Blatz, Disney XD’s SKYRUNNERS stars Linda Kash as Robin Burns, Conrad Coates as Agent Armstrong, Jacqueline MacInnes Wood as Julie Gunn and Nathan Stephenson as Darryl Butler.

SKYRUNNERS was directed by Ralph Hemecker and written by Richard C. Okie along with Adam Wilson & Melanie Wilson. Okie also exec produced the movie. SKYRUNNERS is a production of Ranger Productions and Shaftesbury Services II, Inc.

Disney XD is a newly re-branded basic cable channel and multi-platform brand showcasing a mix of live-action and animated programming for kids age 6-14, hyper-targeting boys and their quest for discovery, accomplishment, sports, adventure and humor.

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Views from the Breathing Palette body art presentation by Stage Cosmetics. The show, held last Wednesday, was part of the week long Stylo Fashion Grand Prix KL 09 event in support of the Malaysian Grand Prix.

The body art showcase featured the work of some of the most talented body artistes from the Philippines – Jennie Renales Delica, Alex Bulan Vicencio, Lorie May Ortanez Quesada, Michelle Colanta and Michelle Literal – all specially brought in for the event by Stage Cosmetics. While most body art is done with nude models, in Malaysia it is not permitted.

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A new movie-production business is moving to Shreveport, bringing with it approximately 15 new jobs.
The company is World Wide FX, a visual effects studio that is part of Millennium Studios, which plans to build a studio in Ledbetter Heights just west of downtown Shreveport.

World Wide FX said it plans to hire 15 people locally to produce visual effects for films shot in Louisiana.

The studio has been in operation for about 10 years in Bulgaria.

Arlena Acree, the city of Shreveport‘s liaison with the movie industry, said Shreveport was selected over competing offers from other states that also offered tax credits.

The city is holding a public meeting next Thursday to discuss increasing tax incentives for movie studios that film in this area. It will be at 3 p.m. in the skybox of Independence Stadium.

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