Zoran Perisic (visual effects artist)
Zoran Perišić | |
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| Зоран Перишић | |
| Born | March 16, 1940 |
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| Occupations | Visual effects artist, film director |
Zoran Perišić (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Перишић; born March 16, 1940)[1] is a Serbian-American visual effects artist and film director.[2][3] He is best known for creating the "Zoptic" front projection process, which was invented to achieve the flying scenes in the 1978 film Superman.[4] For his work in Superman, he won a Special Achievement Academy Award and a BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award. He was also nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Visual Effects for the film Return to Oz.[5][6]
Early life
[edit]Perisic was born in Prokuplje in 1940. He graduated from the University of Belgrade, before moving to the UK to study at the University of Birmingham.[7]
Career
[edit]Early in his career, he worked as a documentary and animation cameraman for ITV Yorkshire,[8] where he created and directed the programme The Magic Fountain.[9] Perisic's first feature film credit was in the effects department of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). In a 2013 interview, Perisic said "We had a lot of challenges on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001- A Space Odyssey with spacecraft and rockets flying against star backgrounds; I felt that there had to be a more efficient way other than rotoscoping and hand painted mattes."[8]
Selected filmography
[edit]- Superman (1978; co-won the Special Achievement Academy Award with Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field and Derek Meddings)
- Return to Oz (1985; co-nominated with Will Vinton, Ian Wingrove and Michael Lloyd)[10]
- Sky Bandits (1986), as director
References
[edit]- ↑ "Zoran Perisic". AllMovie. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
- ↑ Mills, Bart (July 30, 1981). "Look! No wires! How Superman flies". The Vancouver Sun. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. p. 25. Retrieved April 2, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "'Homecoming Night' is horror and humor; 'Bandits' is just pretty". The Evening Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. November 4, 1986. p. 29. Retrieved April 2, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "The 51st Academy Awards (1979) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
- ↑ "The 58th Academy Awards (1986) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
- ↑ McCall, Douglas (September 11, 2015). Film Cartoons: A Guide to 20th Century American Animated Features and Shorts. McFarland. p. 84. ISBN 9781476609669 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Zoran Perisic / Serbia, USA". nsff.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 2025-08-16.
- 1 2 "Effects of days past: making Superman fly | fxphd". www.fxphd.com/. Retrieved 2025-08-16.
- ↑ "Magic Fountain, The – Nostalgia Central". nostalgiacentral.com. Retrieved 2025-08-16.
- ↑ McCall, Douglas (September 11, 2015). Film Cartoons: A Guide to 20th Century American Animated Features and Shorts. McFarland. p. 84. ISBN 9781476609669 – via Google Books.
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