Millicent Patrick. (Fun fact: Later men would also become creature designers. Some even got nearly as good as her.)
Liz Moore. A sculptor whose work you know by heart.
Janet Stevens, her sculpting work is often attributed to Ray Harryhausen. Here is her medusa.
Janet also sculpted this helmet
This is Wendy Froud aka Mother of Yoda. She fabricated our green mentor, sculpted his hands and operated some of his facial features. She also sculpted Gen and Kira for Dark Crystal.
And this continues on with women in VFX who continue to sculpt amazing creatures in the digital world.
Such as Lana Lan and Karin Cooper (creature supervisors at ILM)
(I also did my part, working on Where The Wild Things Are helping to bring Carol to life.)
Anyway, I will leave you with our queen Millicent, and remind you that Bud Westmore tried to take credit for her work. The fucker.
Men?Credit women. Stop stealing their credits.
Ladies? Keep making those monsters.
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Uh, hello? Medusa? I am sorry to bother you if you are in here. My name is Perseus and I wonder if you would be so kind to help me? I heard about the horrible thing Athena did to you, so I have this realy nice mask you may like to wear while we eat this picnic I bought.
I don't want to trouble you, but the whole turning to stone power? Well that would be amazing help to bring down this horrible dictator. It would really help the people, and I am sure we arrange a lovely share of the rewards if you like.
I brought wine and spanakopita and mice
I will put in a great word with Zeus if you help, and, who knows? Maybe he might get Athena to turn you back?
Racists have ya... yunno... ever tried not being racist? It opens up literally a whole world of experiences and friendships you would otherwise miss out on.
When you have grown up in a culture that constantly bombards you with racism, choosing to challenge that in yourself is a powerful act of self definition. You have to become much more self aware, willing to apologise, recognise fault in yourself and change.
Racism is *everywhere* from video game selection menus to casual slang terms, from childrens rhymes and old sayings. Every TV show, advert, book, game you play has racism woven in to some degree. A thousand small cuts a day.
If Covid 19 has shown us anything, it is how absolutely fucking mindblowingly dumb some people are. Like, I was gonna give humanity the benefit of the doubt, but holy fuck there are some absolute spanners in our cogs.
Right now there are protesters fighting police in Melbourne.
Over lockdowns.
Two days before they are set to ease.
I will never, ever make the mistake again of assuming a person has enough intelligence not to require a "Caution: contents may be hot" label on a cup of coffee.