by Colleen Wanglund, MoreHorror.com
Yasuyuki Inoue, one of the most innovative and influential Special Effects artists in movies, has died. Inoue spent his entire career at Toho Studios creating creatures and miniatures for all of Toho’s scifi and fantasy movies, including Godzilla.
His career began by chance when, while hanging around the studio, Inoue was hired to design and build props and models for movie sets. Inoue was ultimately recruited by Eiji Tsuburaya (1901-1970) for his SFX team—a collaboration that would become legendary. It was Tsuburaya who established the signature SFX of Godzilla being played by a man in a specially designed latex costume and the use of miniatures.
Throughout the 1950s and 60s Inoue and his creative team designed and built every piece of SFX magic in Toho’s films. Cities like Tokyo and Yokohama were built with meticulous detail only to be destroyed by a man in a suit.
Yasuyuki Inoue, one of the most innovative and influential Special Effects artists in movies, has died. Inoue spent his entire career at Toho Studios creating creatures and miniatures for all of Toho’s scifi and fantasy movies, including Godzilla.
His career began by chance when, while hanging around the studio, Inoue was hired to design and build props and models for movie sets. Inoue was ultimately recruited by Eiji Tsuburaya (1901-1970) for his SFX team—a collaboration that would become legendary. It was Tsuburaya who established the signature SFX of Godzilla being played by a man in a specially designed latex costume and the use of miniatures.
Throughout the 1950s and 60s Inoue and his creative team designed and built every piece of SFX magic in Toho’s films. Cities like Tokyo and Yokohama were built with meticulous detail only to be destroyed by a man in a suit.
- 2/25/2012
- by admin
- MoreHorror
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