Legacy Effects

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Legacy Effects, LLC is an American visual effects studio specializing in creature design, prosthetic makeup, animatronics, and specialty suits. [1]

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History

Founding partners Lindsay Macgowan, Shane Mahan, John Rosengrant, and Alan Scott supervised projects at Stan Winston Studio for over 20 years before Winston's death in 2008. [2] After his death they formed their own company, Legacy Effects, with their first film being 2012 (2009).

Their first film outside of the United States was the Indian film Enthiran (2010), which was used for prosthetic makeup and animatronics.

Visual effects work

The feature films Legacy Effects has contributed practical effects to include Avatar , Iron Man 2 , Iron Man 3 , The Avengers , Avengers: Age of Ultron, Alice in Wonderland , Snow White and the Huntsman , Life of Pi , Thor , RoboCop , Pacific Rim , Enthiran , 2.0 and X-Men: Days of Future Past . [3] Legacy Effects also provided visual effects for films in the Terminator and Jurassic Park franchises, Terminator Genisys and Jurassic World . [4] [5]

Legacy contributed character design for films including Godzilla , John Carter , The Avengers , The Amazing Spider-Man , Cowboys & Aliens , The Hunger Games and Avatar .

Their work has garnered Best Visual Effects Academy Award nominations for Real Steel and Iron Man . [6] [7]

Legacy Effects has created visual and special effects for television shows such as Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. , Colony , Agent Carter , Grey's Anatomy and The Big Bang Theory , and contributed work to over 900 commercials. Notable examples of their commercial work include Destiny, Halo, The Aflac Duck, Maxwell the Geico Pig, The KIA Hamsters, Lunchables' Platy the Platypus and Jackie the Jackalope, and the Jack Links Sasquatch campaigns.

iMut8r app

Legacy created the iMut8r app, first released in October 2009. [8] A popular Halloween-themed photo manipulation app, iMut8r was named the iPhone App of the Week by Apple October 20, 2010. It is still regularly updated with new features.

Comic-Con events

Legacy Effects gained attention for a 9'9" (2.97m) cosplay robot that was unveiled at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con. Created through a partnership between Wired magazine, YouTube and Stan Winston School, the robot was built by Legacy over a period of 24 days and interacted with Comic-Con attendees throughout the four-day event, operated by a combination of suit performer and radio controlled animatronics. [9]

For Comic-Con 2014, Legacy designed and built a 13'6" (4.11m) tall animatronic creature called Bodock the Giant Creature. [10] Created through a partnership with Stan Winston School, Stratasys, and Wired magazine, the Giant Creature involved two separate animatronic characters and nine puppeteers. [11] A majority of the hard surfaces were 3D printed by Stratasys. [12] The goal of both events was to celebrate and promote practical special effects.

Filmography

FilmYearEffects
Scared to Death 2024Visual effects [13]
Alien: Romulus 2024Visual effects
Indian 2 2024Special makeup effects
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 2023Visual effects
Avatar: The Way of Water 2022Visual effects
Black Adam 2021Visual effects
Nightmare Alley 2021Visual effects
Finch 2021Visual effects
Godzilla vs. Kong 2021Visual effects
Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin 2021Visual effects
Antlers 2021Visual effects
The Suicide Squad 2021Visual effects
Underwater 2020Visual effects
The True Adventures of Wolfboy 2019Visual effects
Dark Phoenix 2019Visual effects
Terminator: Dark Fate 2019Visual effects
Captain Marvel 2019Visual effects
Avengers: Endgame 2019Visual effects
The Mandalorian 2019–presentVisual effects
2.0 2018Prosthetics and Animatonics
Avengers: Infinity War 2018Visual effects
Godzilla: King of the Monsters 2018Visual effects
Pacific Rim: Uprising 2018

Visual effects

The Shape of Water 2017

Visual effects

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul 2017Animatronics
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 2017

Visual effects

Power Rangers 2017

Visual effects

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 2017

Visual effects

Spider-Man: Homecoming 2017

Visual effects

Middle Man 2016Visual effects
Suicide Squad 2016Visual effects
Max Steel 2016Visual effects
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows 2016Design and Models
Alice Through the Looking Glass 2016Visual effects
Captain America: Civil War 2016Visual effects
X-Men: Apocalypse 2016Visual effects
The Jungle Book 2016Visual effects
The Revenant 2015Visual effects and Animatronics
Terminator Genisys 2015Visual effects and Animatronics
Jurassic World 2015Visual effects and Animatronics
Avengers: Age Of Ultron 2015Visual effects
The Signal 2014Visual effects
Godzilla 2014Visual effects
Wish I Was Here 2014Suit Design and Fabrication
Project Almanac 2014Specialty Props
Captain America: The Winter Soldier 2014Suit Design and Fabrication
Muppets Most Wanted 201480s Robot Design
X-Men: Days of Future Past 2014Suit Design and Fabrication, Makeup effects
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2014Design and Models
Grudge Match 2014Specialty Puppets
RoboCop 2014Robocop Suit and Robotic effects
Pacific Rim 2013Pilot Suits and effects
World War Z 2013Character Design and Makeup effects
Iron Man 3 2013Prosthetics and Suit effects
Oblivion 2013Specialty Costume Accessories
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 2012Animatronic and Special make-up effects
Life of Pi 2012Replica and Animatronic Animals
Total Recall 2012Sinth Suits, Animatronics and Prosthetics
The Bourne Legacy 2012Animatronic effects
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn (web series)2012Suits and Weapons Design and Fabrication
The Watch 2012Animatronic effects
The Amazing Spider-Man 2012Lizard/Lizard Drone Character Designs and Prosthetic make-up
Snow White and the Huntsman 2012Specialty Costumes
The Avengers 2012Iron Man Suit and Practical effects
The Hunger Games 2012Mutation Character Design
John Carter 2012Character and Creature Design
7 Aum Arivu 2011Special effects
The Muppets 201180s Robot and Muppet Man Design
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 2011Animatronic and Special make-up effects
Real Steel 2011Animatronic effects
Cowboys & Aliens 2011Alien Creature effects
Thor 2011Frost Giant Prosthetics and Suit effects
I Am Number Four 2011Creature Design
Enthiran 2010Animatronic effects and Prosthetic make-up
Passion Play 2010Animatronic effects
Dinner for Schmucks 2010Mechanical Vulture, Animatronic effects
Iron Man 2 2010Suit Construction and Animatronics: Iron Man/Whiplash
Alice In Wonderland 2010Special make-up effects: Red Queen courtier characters creation and design
Shutter Island 2010Visual and make-up effects
Avatar 2009Character Design and Specialty Props Manufacturing (as Stan Winston Studio and Legacy Effects)
2012 2009Animatronic effects

References

  1. "Legacy FX Makes Armored Heroes Shine". Variety. May 29, 2013.
  2. Boucher, Geoff (Oct 6, 2008). "Stan Winston and the tricky business of Legacy". Los Angeles Times.
  3. "With Legacy Effects (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)". IMDb .
  4. "Legacy Effects to Return for Terminator Genesis! | Scified.com". Archived from the original on 2014-03-18. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
  5. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine : JURASSIC WORLD: Building the Apatosaurus - Legacy Effects. YouTube .
  6. "Iron Man - IMDb". IMDb .
  7. "Session Timeout - Academy Awards® Database - AMPAS". Archived from the original on 2013-06-24. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
  8. "TouchArcade – iPhone and iPad Games".
  9. "Geek Week: How to Make a Giant Robot Mech - YouTube". YouTube .
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  11. "Get An Inside Look at The Stan Winston School's Giant Creature From Comic-Con « Nerdist". www.nerdist.com. Archived from the original on 2014-07-30.
  12. "3-D printing a giant for Comic-Con". 24 July 2014.
  13. Squires, John (May 31, 2024). "Scared to Death Exclusive Trailer: Lin Shaye and Bill Moseley Conduct a Séance". Bloody Disgusting . Retrieved June 28, 2024.