The Winston Effect: The Art & History of Stan Winston Studio Hardcover – November 1, 2006

I am an aspiring video game/special effects/creature character design student and am I glad I purchased this book. The content is unbelievably inspirational as it explains how Stan Winston came to become one of the, if not "thee" greatest special effects pioneer/master ever. It reveals Stan's mentality of curiousity and desire to push creative bounderies, and how he went from award winning make-up artist to puppetry, taking from Jim Henson's muppet wizardry to another level by creating realistic and monster "puppets" for movies, to todays CGI. In the book Winston explains his thought process and problems and solutions for many of my favorite movies as well as steps in designing/creating many of my favorite movie creatures like The Thing, Alien, Terminator, Predator and countless more. The pictures are spectacular and there are many of them including behind the scene pics, various awesome artist Art & paintings & Character/Creature designs from Crash McCreery and Aaron Sims. Basically the book is a:-Winston biography.-History of Special Effects.-"The Art of the Film" for a sh*tload of top movies.-Behind the scenes pics and personal stories for a sh*tload of top movies.-An incredibly interesting motivating & captivating read.All of this for $[...] (which I paid thru Amazon) is a complete steal and definitely a must have if you aspire to study or simply enjoy the special effects process.

Excelente muy completo

first off...this is great book in many ways ..presented in a most professional and clean manner, a publishing work of art to go with the works of art inside....the history of Stan and his team of talents is vast and covered very well in text and of course with images to amaze... the design, constuction and presentation of the art of Special make-up effects in the films that have become icons and benchmarks for fx artists to admire and try to outdo, well they are all there, of course there could always be more details and more information but any book of this scale is going to be marketed to a broader audience than myself and my peers in the fx world, but this book does a wonderful job of presenting what we do and what we would love to acheive in very warm and fun light.Thanks to Stan for being the ring leader of such a talented circus of artists!Anthony Veilleux, Make-up fx artist

Jammed pack full of nostalgic moments in the fx film industry. I was just out of highschool. When Jurrasic park came out. This book brings back fond memories. Stan Winston and crew were a big influence on my own art work.

We bought this book for our son, a huge fan of Stan Winston's work, for his 13th birthday. Of all of his presents, he showed the most excitment about this book. It is a HUGE hardbound book (easily 12" x 12" x 1-1/2" thick) with an AWESOME cover! It is full of amazing full color production pictures, stills, and artwork and is a thorough examination of Winston's long and illustrious career in Hollywood. The book is a little pricey at $30+, but it is well worth it when you see the wealth of material presented between its covers. It is by far and away the best "career retrospective" book that I have ever read.

Bought a copy originally for my husband - he found it so good, informative, educational, and fun, that we bought this one for a friend who likes the same things - movies, make-up and special effects not done with CGI, which is great in it's place but will never take the place in our hearts of good old fashioned ingenuity and creativity.

altho the writing is a bit dull, the book is full of great insight, and many colour photgraphs and drawings. a must for any special fx guru or fan.

for the price, its again a masterpiece... as stan winston is an icon for me, with that book i'm able to learn about his entirely life.... all the things he made, every little projects he worked on... many pictures with many stuff about it... a truly book for people who want to learn about his biggest creation... alien, predator, terminator, jurassic park etc... i honestly reccomand this book for people who enjoy his creation. Stan winston will remains the best forever because he always enjoy his work and loved it....instead of doing it for $ as many others