Legacy Effects

Founding partners Lindsay Macgowan, Shane Mahan, John Rosengrant, and Alan Scott supervised projects at Stan Winston Studio for over 20 years before Winston's death in 2008.{{cite news|last=Boucher|first=Geoff|title=Stan Winston and the tricky business of Legacy|url=http://herocomplex.latimes.com/uncategorized/stan-winston-an/|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=Oct 6, 2008}} After his death they formed their own company, Legacy Effects, with their first film being 2012 (2009).

Their first film outside of the United States was the Indian film Enthiran (2010), which was used for prosthetic makeup and animatronics.

The feature films Legacy Effects has contributed practical effects to include Avatar, Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Alice in Wonderland, Snow White and the Huntsman, Life of Pi, Thor, RoboCop, Pacific Rim, Enthiran, 2.0 and X-Men: Days of Future Past.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/company/co0282891/?ref_=fn_al_co_1|title = With Legacy Effects (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)|website = IMDb}} Legacy Effects also provided visual effects for films in the Terminator and Jurassic Park franchises, Terminator Genisys and Jurassic World.{{cite web |url=http://www.scified.com/news/1670 |title=Legacy Effects to Return for Terminator Genesis! | Scified.com |accessdate=2014-03-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318200756/http://www.scified.com/news/1670 |archivedate=2014-03-18 }}Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/jfcqQf61S-k Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20150619235648/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfcqQf61S-k&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfcqQf61S-k| title = JURASSIC WORLD: Building the Apatosaurus - Legacy Effects | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}

Legacy contributed character design for films including Godzilla, John Carter, The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, Cowboys & Aliens, The Hunger Games and Avatar.

Their work has garnered Best Visual Effects Academy Award nominations for Real Steel and Iron Man.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371746/awards|title = Iron Man - IMDb|website = IMDb}}{{Cite web |url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1371776027082 |title=Session Timeout - Academy Awards® Database - AMPAS |access-date=2013-06-21 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130624200009/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1371776027082 |archive-date=2013-06-24 |url-status=dead }}

Legacy Effects has created visual and special effects for television shows such as Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Colony, Agent Carter, Grey's Anatomy and The Big Bang Theory, and contributed work to over 900 commercials. Notable examples of their commercial work include Destiny, Halo, The Aflac Duck, Maxwell the Geico Pig, The KIA Hamsters, Lunchables' Platy the Platypus and Jackie the Jackalope, and the Jack Links Sasquatch campaigns.

Legacy created the iMut8r app, first released in October 2009.{{Cite web|url=http://appshopper.com/photography/imut8r|title = TouchArcade – iPhone and iPad Games}} A popular Halloween-themed photo manipulation app, iMut8r was named the iPhone App of the Week by Apple October 20, 2010. It is still regularly updated with new features.

Legacy Effects gained attention for a 9'9" (2.97m) cosplay robot that was unveiled at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con. Created through a partnership between Wired magazine, YouTube and Stan Winston School, the robot was built by Legacy over a period of 24 days and interacted with Comic-Con attendees throughout the four-day event, operated by a combination of suit performer and radio controlled animatronics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLibNZv5Zd0dzK7SBUath1E6lWUevknvn0|title=Geek Week: How to Make a Giant Robot Mech - YouTube|website=YouTube}}

For Comic-Con 2014, Legacy designed and built a 13'6" (4.11m) tall animatronic creature called Bodock the Giant Creature.[https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/pictures/20-best-things-we-saw-and-heard-at-comic-con-2014-20140728/bodock-the-giant-creature-0069182 Rollingstone] Created through a partnership with Stan Winston School, Stratasys, and Wired magazine, the Giant Creature involved two separate animatronic characters and nine puppeteers.{{cite web |url=http://www.nerdist.com/vepisode/get-an-inside-look-at-the-stan-winston-schools-giant-creature-from-comic-con/ |title=Get An Inside Look at The Stan Winston School's Giant Creature From Comic-Con « Nerdist |website=www.nerdist.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140730082145/http://www.nerdist.com/vepisode/get-an-inside-look-at-the-stan-winston-schools-giant-creature-from-comic-con/ |archive-date=2014-07-30}} A majority of the hard surfaces were 3D printed by Stratasys.{{Cite web|url=http://www.plasticsnews.com/article/20140724/NEWS/140729959/3-d-printing-a-giant-for-comic-con|title = 3-D printing a giant for Comic-Con|date = 24 July 2014}}

The goal of both events was to celebrate and promote practical special effects.

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