Stan Winston, an Oscar-winning visual effects artist, has died at age 62.

Winston died at his Malibu home Sunday evening after a seven-year struggle with multiple myeloma, according to a rep from Stan Winston Studio.

“Stan died peacefully at home surrounded by family,” a spokeswoman said.

Winston won four visual effects Oscars and earned multiple nominations. His first Oscar was for James Cameron’s “Aliens” (1986). Winston later won two Oscars for “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (1992) (visual effects and makeup) and 1993’s “Jurassic Park.”

A long list of films are left for audiences to admire Winston’s work:

The Thing (1982), Friday the 13th Part III (1983), The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Monster Squad (1987), Predator (1987), Leviathan (1988) Pumpkinhead (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Predator 2 (1990), Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991), Batman Returns (1992), Jurassic Park (1993), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Congo (1995), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1996), T2 3-D: Battle Across Time (1996), Ghosts (1997), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Small Soldiers (1998), Lake Placid (1999), End of Days (1999), Pearl Harbor (2001), A.I. (2001), Jurassic Park III (2001), When Darkness Falls (2002), Big Fish (2003), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Wrong Turn (2003), Constantine (2005), Iron Man (2008), Avatar (2009) and Terminator 4 (2009).

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A REAL version of Wall-E has been seen wandering the streets of LA! It’s really funny, watch the video following the link on the image or click on “Continue reading” to watch it right from CG-Today!

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I’ve just run across this: Picasso’s Guernica recreated in 3D! Worth to have a look!

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One more acquisition from Autodesk; this time is Realviz, creators of software like Stitcher, ImageModeler or Matchmover.

REALVIZ’s technology bridges 2D and 3D, linking the virtual and real worlds. 3D models can be created from simple 2D images, and virtual environments can be built from conventional photographs.

Autodesk intends to develop and sell REALVIZ’s Stitcher Unlimited, Stitcher Express, ImageModeler and Movimento software as standalone products. Matchmover, Retimer and VTour will no longer be available as standalone products; core technology from these REALVIZ products will be integrated into future versions of Autodesk’s existing products, enabling customers to bring the real world into design environments.

The following REALVIZ offerings have been discontinued: Stitcher Pro, Stitcher Unlimited DS, StoryViz, and hardware and software product bundles. Education versions of ImageModeler and Stitcher continue to be available. Student versions of ImageModeler and Stitcher are no longer available.

Via: CGSociety

Exposé 6 is now available for pre-order. Pre-order customers will receive a free 15 minute video tutorial by Linda Bergkvist showing some of the detailing of the cover art “Red Robin”.

Exposé 6 contains 334 inspiring images prepared by 257 artists from 43 countries.

Via: CGTalk

The CGPortfolio of Linda Bergkvist has been voted as the most popular online gallery space in the CGPortfolio Poll. She won 298 votes and to date her CGPortfolio has been viewed over 986,000 times. The Poll was staged as part of the 100,000th image upload milestone. Linda’s gallery was selected out of 100 CGPortfolios with the most visits.

Hi there! This is just a quick note to let you know that the lack of updates in the last few days is because I’m moving to my new home. Hopefully I’ll be up again publishing news really soon, in just a few days!

Meanwhile, here you got some links people have sent during these days:

Sergei Guziy recommends reading the Making Of Casius, hosted on 3DM3.com.

Hau Ming (Jamie) Li has done several making of’s, too. The first one, Cheese Platter, has been listed here on CG-Today before. Read now Making of Fruit Tarts, her second tutorial on food using Maya, Photoshop and rendered with Mental Ray.

Also, during these days Nvidia has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AGEIA Technologies, Inc., the industry leader in gaming physics technology. Expect to have PhysX on GeForce soon!

The guys at CGSociety have made a list featuring the CG TOP 20 products, VFX and digital artistry in 2007. This list is the result of public voting in a thread promoted for the purpose on CGTalk, which was open for a month. 1st position goes to Disney/Pixar’s Ratatouille, 2nd to Transformers and 3rd to ZBrush 3.1. Click the image to see the full list!

Ballistic Publishing is now calling on artists to submit digital images for consideration in EXPOSÉ 6. Images can be created in any 3D or digital illustration application. Photoshop and digitally manipulated photography is also welcome.

All artists with work published in EXPOSÉ 6 will receive a complementary copy of the book and will enjoy worldwide exposure.

After the success of the previous editions, 3DTotal has begun calling for submission for its third “Digital Art Masters” book. First you have to send your final image_; if it’s approved, then you’ll have to send a making of and several wip’s, and a descriptive text. Click on the image to read more on their website.