JerseyFestFair

Bill George – Industrial Light & Magic

Bill George is a legendary model maker and Visual FX artist who has worked on some of the biggest movies of the last 30 years including Star Wars, Star Trek, Indiana Jones, ET, and many more.  Some highlights of his career include miniature construction and design on Blade Runner, art direction and design for five Star Trek films, and overseeing model construction on Ghostbusters 2. In 1988, he received an Academy Award® for Best Visual Effects for his work on Innerspace.  Bill has gone on to earn nominations by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the British Academy of Film and Television, and the Visual Effects Society for his work on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, as well as a VES Nomination for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. In 2014, George’s work on Unbroken was nominated for Best Supporting Visual Effects at the 13^th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards.  Click HERE as well as HERE to see a more comprehensive list of Bill’s achievements.

Bill will be doing presentations and panel discussions during the JerseyFest vendor show about model making and his experiences with working on some of these classic films.

                                                                          Icebreaker designs is very generously donating custom Statues as awards for our contest this year. The Silver Samurai statue will be awarded to the model kit that wins best of show and the Baron Zemo will be awarded to the model kit that wins best superhero. This is along with our Jerseyfest trophies. Bring your “A” game if you want to win a chance to win these very rare Statues

Here is the Phantom wall hanger that will be the subject of the airbrush painting class taught by John Allred and Jeff Camp. Go to blackheartmodels.com for all the info on how to sign up.

Alone with our beautiful Bronze bust that the winner for Best horror will receive we are including this gorgeous Bernie Wrightson Frankenstein kit produced by Resin Realities and kit will come with a how to painting disc by Phil Lister . Bring your “A” game if you want to win this prize package. Stop by and say Hi to John Diaz and here is a link to the kit and resin realities website. http://resinrealities.net/Frankenstein.htm

The Marriot Hotel has generously added more rooms to our block. Please book your rooms as soon as possible to make sure you lock in our great rate that also includes free parking. If the hotel link does not work call 1-800-Marriot and let them know you are looking for the Jerseyfest group rate. The link might not be updated but I still want to make sure you all get our group rate before we sell out again

 Good Fellas resin will be back at Jerseyfest with their great array of kits. Stop by and say hello to Angelo and Scott.

Rooms have been added. Book now as we are very limited