Issue #69 (March 1997) Features on The Relic, Star Wars, Star Trek, Dante’s Peak.
Cinefex was a quarterly journal that debuted in 1980 and covered visual effects in cinema, with a particular focus on science-fiction films. Each issue featured lengthy, detailed articles that described the creative and technical processes behind current films, the information drawn from interviews with the effects artists and technicians involved. Each issue also featured many behind-the-scenes photographs illustrating the progression of visual effects shots – from previsualization to final – as well as the execution of miniatures, pyrotechnics, makeup and other related effects.
A defining characteristic of Cinefex is its unusual 8 in (20 cm) by 9 in (23 cm) configuration, a format Shay chose to enable him to reproduce film frames in a format similar to their original film aspect ratio.
