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Stan Winston, one of the most influential figures in special effects history, has passed. It’s like saying ILM is no more. He was no less an institution.

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and lest you think he’d slowed down, we’d also be without…

In an age when digital effects were taking over Hollywood, his work was proof positive that there was still room for practical effects and that, in fact, it was best to mix the two (see Terminator 2 or Jurassic Park).

He was this generation’s Harryhausen, and he will be sorely missed.