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Rex is Latin for king and may also refer to:

People[link]

• Rex (given name), for people with the given name "Rex"
• Rex (surname), for people with the surname "Rex"

Places[link]

• Rex, Georgia, an unincorporated community in Clayton County, United States
• Rex, North Carolina, a census-designated place in Robeson County, United States
• Rex River, a river in the U.S. state of Washington
• Mount Rex, an isolated mountain in Antarctica

Literature and performing arts[link]

• Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex in Latin), a Greek tragedy (Oedipus Tyrannus) written by Sophocles
• Oedipus rex (opera), an opera by Igor Stravinsky
• Rex (musical), a stage musical, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick

Fictional characters[link]

Film[link]

• Rex Lewis, a character from G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
• Rex (Toy Story), a toy character from Disney/Pixar's Toy Story series
• Rex, the sheepdog from the 1995 Academy Award winning film Babe
• Rex, a Tyrannosaurus Rex, character in animated film We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (film)

Animated television series[link]

• Rex Banner, a one-time character in The Simpsons appearing in the episode "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment"
• Rex Raptor, a character in the seriesYu-Gi-Oh!
• Rex, the titular character in the series Generator Rex
• Rex, the titular character in the claymation series Rex the Runt
• Rex, the clone trooper captain who served as General Anakin Skywalker's first-in-command in the series Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Live-action television series[link]

• Rex Balsom, a character on the soap opera One Life to Live
• Inspector Rex, an Austrian police dog in the series of the same name
• Rex (Primeval), a Coelurosauravus-like reptile in the series Primeval
• Rex Van de Kamp, a character in the series Desperate Housewives

Other fiction[link]

• Rex, a locomotive in The Railway Series books
• Rex (NX Files), a character in the action adventure web-show NX Files
• Metal Gear REX, a mecha from the video game, Metal Gear Solid
• Rex the Wonder Dog, a DC Comics superhero dog
• Rex Morgan, M.D., titular character of a comic strip of the same name

Biology[link]

Animals

• Cornish Rex, a breed of cat
• Devon Rex, a breed of cat
• Mini Rex, a breed of rabbit
• Standard Rex, a breed of rabbit
• Rex (dog), a dog once owned by Ronald Reagan
• Rex (horse), aka Rex the Wonder Horse, star of 15 Hollywood motion pictures
• Rex sole (Glyptocephalus zachirus), a flatfish species
• Nuralagus rex, extinct giant rabbit
• Tyrannosaurus rex, the iconic dinosaur species

Other species ending in "rex" include:

Latin binomial abbreviations for species

Transportation[link]

Land[link]

• Subaru Rex, a Japanese Kei car
• Subaru Impreza WRX, a car referred to as "Rex"

Sea[link]

• SS Rex, an Italian luxury ship, sunk by Allied bombers off the coast of Slovenia in 1944

Air[link]

• Regional Express Airlines (aka Rex), an Australian airline
• The IATA airport code for the General Lucio Blanco International Airport in Reynosa, Mexico

Energy and fuels[link]

• Rockies Express Pipeline, a natural gas pipeline built across the United States
• Rex Energy, an independent energy company

Music[link]

• Rex (band), an alternative rock band
• Rex (Live at the Fillmore), a 2008 album by Keller Williams, Keith Moseley and Jeff Austin
• Rex Records, the name of several record companies
• T. Rex (band), British rock band, formed in 1967 by singer/songwriter and guitarist Marc Bolan.

Computing and technology[link]

• The REX prefix used by the x86-64 instruction encoding
• rex (language), a programming language used for teaching purposes at Harvey Mudd College
• REXX (originally named Rex), a computer programming language
• REX 5000, a series of personal digital assistants
• REX 6000, a series of personal digital assistants
• Rex (video game), a 1988 game for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC
• REX, an audio file format; see REX2
• REX OS, a real-time operating system developed by Qualcomm

Other[link]

• Rex (king), etymological cognate of Raja
• Rex parade, the de facto monarch of the Carnival Season in New Orleans
• Rex Architecture P.C., an architecture and design firm based in New York City.
• Rex 84, a plan by the United States to test their ability to detain large numbers of American citizens
• Rex (chair), a foldable chair
• The Rex Streak, a streak of 20 consecutive shows on The Jim Rome Show in which a person named "Rex" was interviewed
• Rex, the dinosaur mascot of the Calgary Dinos athletic teams at the University of Calgary
• Rexism, a fascist political movement and ideology in Belgium
• Rex, title of the kings of ancient Rome
• Rex, a title on coins of British kings
• the MP412 REX, a Russian handgun

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Michel Gagné (b. 1965, Roberval, Quebec) is a Canadian cartoonist.

Film[link]

Gagné studied Classical Animation at Sheridan College and worked for Sullivan Bluth Studios for six years, working on such films as An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Rock-A-Doodle, and A Troll in Central Park. While at Bluth's company, Gagné worked on his own short film, Prelude to Eden, which was nominated for an Annie Award in 1996.

After leaving Bluth, Gagné moved around and eventually settled at Warner Bros.' animation studio, where he worked on such films as Quest for Camelot, The Iron Giant, and Osmosis Jones. More recently, Gagné designed the special effects for the Cartoon Network series Star Wars: Clone Wars. He has also occasionally worked for Disney and Pixar.

[edit] Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet

Gagné has also finished his first video game, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, a 2D side-scrolling shooter game which was released August 3rd, 2011 on Xbox Live Arcade as part of the XBLA Summer of Arcade promotion.

Published Work[link]

Gagné has also made a name for himself in comics and illustrated fiction. His first book, A Quest for Meaning: The Story of Rex, was self-published in 1998. Several more books followed. He is currently producing a serialized comic book, ZED. Gagné also created a Batman story, Batman: Spore, which was serialized in Detective Comics #776-780 (January-May 2003). His short story "Inner Sanctum" was published in volume 2 of the comics anthology Flight, published in March 2005. He is also well known for his work as an artist for the card game Xeko

External links[link]

• Gagné International Press - Gagné's official web site
• "Creativity After Hours: The Visual Evolutions of Michel Gagné." Bob Miller, Animation World Magazine, April 2000.
• Xeko Gagné Work
• Michel Gagné at the Internet Movie Database

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Stanley Winston^[1] (April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008) was an American visual effects supervisor, makeup artist, and film director. He was best known for his work in the Terminator series, the Jurassic Park series, Aliens, the Predator series, Iron Man, Edward Scissorhands, Avatar and Enthiran.^[2][3][4] He won four Academy Awards for his work.

Winston, a frequent collaborator with director James Cameron, owned several effects studios, including Stan Winston Digital. The established areas of expertise for Winston were in makeup, puppets and practical effects, but he had recently expanded his studio to encompass digital effects as well.

Career[link]

Stan Winston was born on April 7, 1946, in Arlington, Virginia, where he graduated from Washington-Lee High School in 1964. He studied painting and sculpture at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville from which he graduated in 1968. In 1969, after attending California State University, Long Beach, Winston moved to Hollywood to pursue a career as an actor. Struggling to find an acting job, he began a makeup apprenticeship at Walt Disney Studios.^[4]

1970s[link]

In 1972, Winston established his own company, Stan Winston Studio, and won an Emmy Award for his effects work on the telefilm Gargoyles. Over the next seven years, Winston continued to receive Emmy nominations for work on projects and won another for 1974's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Winston also created the Wookiee costumes for the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special.

1980s[link]

In 1982, Winston received his first Oscar nomination for Heartbeeps, by which time he had set up his own studio. However, his ground-breaking work with Rob Bottin on the science fiction horror classic The Thing that year brought him to prominence in Hollywood. Between then, he contributed some visual effects to Friday the 13th Part III, in which he made a slightly different head sculpt of Jason in an unused ending.

In 1983, Winston designed the Mr. Roboto facemask for the American rock group Styx.^[5]

In 1983 he also worked on a short-lived TV series Manimal, for which he created the panther and hawk transformation effects.

Winston reached a new level of fame in 1984 when James Cameron's The Terminator premiered. The movie was a surprise hit, and Winston's work in bringing the titular metallic killing machine to life led to many new projects and additional collaborations with Cameron. In fact, Winston won his first Oscar for Best Visual Effects in 1986 on James Cameron's next movie, Aliens.^[6]

Over the next few years, Winston and his company received more accolades for its work on many more Hollywood films, including Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, John McTiernan's Predator, Alien Nation, The Monster Squad, and Predator 2.

In 1988, Winston made his directorial debut with the horror movie Pumpkinhead, and won Best First Time Director at the Paris Film Festival. His next directing project was the child-friendly A Gnome Named Gnorm (1990), starring Anthony Michael Hall.

1990s[link]

James Cameron drafted Winston and his team once again in 1990, this time for the groundbreaking Terminator 2: Judgment Day. T2 premiered in the summer of 1991, and Winston's work on this box office hit won him two more Oscars for Best Makeup Effects and Best Visual Effects.

In 1992, he was nominated with yet another Tim Burton film, this time for Burton's superhero sequel, Batman Returns, where his effects on Danny DeVito as The Penguin, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, and in delivering Burton's general vision for what was an increasingly Gothic Gotham City earned him more recognition for his work ethic and loyalty to what was an intrinsic ability to bring different directors' ideas to life. It was particularly poignant because for Batman Returns, Winston had to follow on from Anton Furst's earlier work, and recreate change according to what Burton wanted to do differently the next time around.

Winston turned his attention from super villains and cyborgs to dinosaurs when Steven Spielberg enlisted his help to bring Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park to the cinema screen. In 1993, the movie became a blockbuster and Winston won another Oscar for Best Visual Effects.

In 1993, Winston, Cameron and ex-ILM General Manager Scott Ross co-founded Digital Domain, one of the foremost digital and visual effects studios in the world. In 1998, after the box office success of Titanic, Cameron and Winston severed their working relationship with the company and resigned from its board of directors.

Winston and his team continued to provide effects work for many more films and expanded their work into animatronics. Some of Winston's notable animatronics work can be found in The Ghost and the Darkness and T2 3-D: Battle Across Time, James Cameron's 3-D continuation of the Terminator series for the Universal Studios theme park. One of Winston's most ambitious animatronics projects was Steven Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence, which earned Winston another Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects.

In 1996, Winston directed and co-produced the longest and the most expensive music video of all time, Ghosts, which was based on an original concept of Michael Jackson and Stephen King. The long-form music video presented a number of never before seen visual effects, and promoted music from two consecutive Jackson albums, HIStory and Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix, which went on to become the biggest selling double-album by a solo artist and remix album of all time, respectively (20 million and 11 million).

2000s[link]

In 2001, Winston, together with Colleen Camp and Samuel Z. Arkoff's son, Lou Arkoff, produced a series of made-for-cable films for Cinemax and HBO. The five films, referred to as Creature Features, were inspired by the titles of AIP monster movies from the 1950s — i.e., Earth vs. the Spider (1958), How to Make a Monster (1958), Day the World Ended (1955), The She-Creature (1956), and Teenage Caveman (1958) — but had completely different plots.^[7]

In 2003, Stan Winston was invited by the Smithsonian Institution to speak about his life and career in a public presentation sponsored by The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. The presentation took place on November 15, 2003, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.^[8]

In 2004, he expressed great disappointment when director Paul W. S. Anderson did not come to him for the creature effects for Alien vs. Predator, seeing as how he designed the Predator and the Alien Queen. "They're like my children to me," he stated.^{[citation needed]}

Winston also worked on Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

At the time of his death, Winston was working on the sequel Terminator Salvation.^[9] According to reports, next for Stan Winston was Jurassic Park IV.^[10][11] Winston designed the original monsters that appeared in the Midway game The Suffering^[12] and its sequel, The Suffering: Ties That Bind. He was also helping with his old friend, film director James Cameron and his upcoming film Avatar.

Stan Winston Studio also took a part in the most expensive Indian/Tamil film ever made, Enthiran, which became a huge success in India and overseas as well.

Death[link]

Stan Winston died on June 15, 2008, in Malibu, California after suffering for seven years from multiple myeloma.^[2] A spokeswoman reported that he "died peacefully at home surrounded by family."^[3] Winston was with his wife and two children, actor Matt Winston and Debbie Winston. Arnold Schwarzenegger made a public speech about his death, and Jon Favreau dedicated his Spike TV Scream Award to him upon receiving the award for Best Sci-Fi Movie for Iron Man. Terminator Salvation starts and ends the credits with a dedication to him. His special effects still lives on through his studio Stan Winston Studios, now renamed Legacy Effects, continuing to work on films after his death such as Pandorum, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Avatar, Enthiran and Shutter Island thus continuing his legacy.

Collaborators[link]

Winston worked with the following directors on more than one film:

• Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Big Fish)
• James Cameron (The Terminator, Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Avatar)
• John Carpenter (The Thing, Starman)
• Dennis Dugan (The Benchwarmers, You Don't Mess with the Zohan)
• Jon Favreau (Zathura, Iron Man)
• Stephen Hopkins (Predator 2, The Ghost and the Darkness)
• Peter Hyams (The Relic, End of Days)
• Frank Marshall (Congo, Eight Below)
• Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, A.I., War of the Worlds, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
• Robert Zemeckis (Amazing Stories episode "Go to the Head of the Class", What Lies Beneath)

Academy Awards[link]

• 1982: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Heartbeeps
• 1987: Won Oscar For Best Visual Effects: Aliens
• 1988: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: Predator
• 1991: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Edward Scissorhands
• 1992: Won 2 Oscars – Best Visual Effects & Best Makeup: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• 1993: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Batman Returns
• 1994: Won Oscar For Best Visual Effects: Jurassic Park
• 1998: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: The Lost World: Jurassic Park
• 2002: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: A.I.

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Stan Winston Studio
• Stan Winston at the Internet Movie Database