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Learn to airbrush a portrait with renowned painter Craig Fraser (Jesse James, West Coast Choppers and Fender Guitars): www.stanwinstonschool.com/tutorials/the-fine-art-o…

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Today is the 36th anniversary of Stan Winston's A Gnome Named Gnorm (also known as Upworld). A fantasy/adventure about a gnome who teams with a cop to recover a stolen crystal that powers his underground world.

Coincidentally, Stan Winston had already heard of the project. “I remembered that while I was doing The Monster Squad, Peter Hyams, who was producing it, had mentioned a script he’d read, called Gnome. Peter asked me questions about how one would go about creating a little gnome character. These producers had never been able to get the project off the ground because that same question always came up — how are you going to do the gnome? But with me as the director, figuring out how to do the gnome would be a given.” Gnome eventually became A Gnome Named Gnorm — alternately titled Upworld and The Adventures of a Gnome Named Gnorm — the second feature film directed by Stan Winston.

To make the character walk, Winston’s crewmembers reconfigured the harness-and-rod construct they’d devised for the half-body endoskeleton puppet for The Terminator, creating a walking rig that positioned the puppet in front of the puppeteer, rather than on his shoulders. This Gnorm walking rig was a prototype for more sophisticated rigs the crew would build later for Terminator 2 and A.I. Artificial Intelligence.

(Text excerpted from THE WINSTON EFFECT: THE ART AND HISTORY OF STAN WINSTON STUDIO by Jody Duncan.)

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