Stan Winston/Animatronics

Stan Winston/Animatronics

Visual effects supervisor, makeup artist and film director.

Known to work on the Terminator series, Jurassic Park, Aliens, the Predator, Iron Man and Edward Scissorhands.

Started off as a makeup artist at Walt Disney Studios to working on makeup effects/visual effects with Tim Burton and James Cameron.

Stan Winston and his team created a Stan Winston Studios. It ran along for over 30 years, creating characters, creatures and monsters for motion pictures and television.

The studio works on films, television, commercials and music video.

Stan moved to Hollywood in 1969.

Animatronics is the use of electronics and robotics in mechanized puppets to simulate life.

It is usually used in movie making.

It brings advantages to CGI and stop motion.

Before digital effects, animatronics was the start. For example, Jaws and E.T. was created through animatronics.

Spinosarurus, an animatronic dinosaur created for Jurassic Park III by Stan Winston Studio.

Most of the animatronic dinosaurs used in "Jurassic Park III" are new. For example, the Velociraptors were redesigned to more closely resemble what paleontologists think a Velociraptor looked like. The Tyrannosaurus rex was redone too, but is no longer the star of the franchise. That distinction now passes to Spinosaurus, a monster that dwarfs even the mighty T. rex. This is the largest animatronic creature SWS has ever built, even bigger than the T. rex that Winston's team built for the original "Jurassic Park"!