>>NEWSCASTER: Well new at 11 a creature paraded around the lawn, invaded the marching band
practice [screams]
It's part of a hands on workshop put on by the Stan Winston School of Character Arts
[Screams]
>>MATT WINSTON: To visit a group of people who are so enthusiastic, it kind of rekindles
our own love of this.
[pause] So the University had put together a concept
for a year long "Art of the Moving Creature" course.
And George Sampson got in touch with us and said, "We know Stan's an alum.
Is there any way that you can help support this effort?"
We said, "Are you kidding?
Our library is yours.
Our artists are yours.
Let's make this happen."
>>TED HAINES: I mean it's something completely unbelievable that you have to MAKE believable.
It's just, it's big and it's goofy and it's fun.
Especially for the University.
This is a spectacle.
>>SHANNON SHEA: At the end of the first day so much got accomplished.
The enthusiasm, the focus, the learning ability was so impressive.
It wasn't just a relief.
Cause a relief would be,'Okay, we're gonna be fine.'
It was like 'Oh my God.
LOOK at this.'
I was like, y'know, 'What do you normally do?'
'Oh, I'm a tech director for theatre.'
'What do you normally do?'
'Oh, I'm a fine artist.'
'What do you do?'
'I'm an architecture major.'
And you turn around, they're monster makers.
And really GOOD.
>>STEVEN WARNER: What they're getting out of a class like this one is working as a team.
A goal gets thrust upon you.
Someone says "I need you to do this."
And then you have to get the energy and the enthusiasm about someone else's product, and
then have it realized in full scale.
>>MELISSA GOLDMAN: I mean one of the great things about the class is its interdisciplinary
nature.
Getting all these students out of the studio of the building that they're in and getting
them to work together.
>>MARGARET "PEGGY" BRENNAN: I mean you get to build creatures.
You get to actually get in there and build something.
And now that people are seeing this, all my friends that didn't take the class are seriously
regretting it . They're like 'We should've taken this class.'
And I'm like.
'Hello?
I know!'
>>EVAN HOWELL: Y'know, all these things that you might have seen at some point or another
but you weren't sure how they were done.
Getting that kind of behind the scenes knowledge has been just really fantastic.
>>MARK "TORPEDO" MOLCHANY: To learn from these guys who've done ALIENS, who've done PREDATOR,
y'know who've done JURASSIC PARK.
I mean, when I saw Jurassic Park for the first time I was absolutely terrified.
I wanted to know how the heck they did it.
You know?
And then, they're sharing this information with us.
I feel absolutely honored that I get a chance to listen to it every day.
>>TED HAINES: Even if they're not gonna go to Los Angeles and build creatures.
They're gonna do something else.
They're gonna go into other stage work and whatever like that and they're gonna apply
this for the rest of their lives.
They're gonna think back.
Doesn't matter if they're building a Halloween costume for their kid twenty years from now.
So it's that experience, that enthusiasm to build something in the future.
>>SHANNON SHEA: These kids, it's coming to them.
They don't have to be in Los Angeles.
Stan Winston School is coming to them.
[Picture taking]
[SCREAMS, MUSIC, MONSTER NOISES & LAUGHTER]
>>GEORGE SAMPSON: I would hope the students walk away from this situation with a sense
that all things are possible.
So it's not just about the monster.
It's not just about the creature.
It's about the creation of the creature.
It's the process.
THAT'S the magic.