The VFX legend died on Sunday. His work was a major influence on me when I was young, I think it really fueled my passion for movies and visual effects- Jurassic Park will definitely be burned in my brain forever. It’s amazing how many films he had a major influence on, everything from Edward Scissorhands to Terminator to the recent Iron Man and Indiana Jones. Cinematical has some notes on a few of his films, and at Wired there’s a write-up.
“I rode his cutting edge from teddy bears to aliens to dinosaurs,” Spielberg said in a statement. “My world would not have been the same without Stan. What I will miss most is his easy laugh every time he said to me, ‘Nothing is impossible.’”
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