Zoran Perisic (visual effects artist)
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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-born 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 Superman (1978).[4] For this, Perisic won a Special Achievement Academy Award and a BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award. He was also nominated for Best Visual Effects Oscar for the film Return to Oz (1985).[5][6]
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
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]
