Zoran Perisic (visual effects artist)

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Zoran Perišić
Зоран Перишић
Born (1940-03-16) March 16, 1940 (age 85)
Prokuplje, Toplica District, Yugoslavia
(present-day Serbia)
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Visual effects artist, film director

Zoran Perišić (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Перишић; born March 16, 1940)[1] is a Serbian-born visual effects artist and film director.[2][3] He is best known for creating the "Zoptic" front projection process, which was invented to achieve the flying scenes in Superman (1978).[4] For this, Perisic won a Special Achievement Academy Award and a BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award. He was also nominated for Best Visual Effects Oscar for the film Return to Oz (1985).[5][6]

Early life

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Perisic was born in Prokuplje in 1940. He graduated from the University of Belgrade, before moving to the UK to study at the University of Birmingham.[7]

Career

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Early in his career, he worked as a documentary and animation cameraman for ITV Yorkshire,[8] where he created and directed the programme The Magic Fountain.[9] Perisic's first feature film credit was in the effects department of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). In a 2013 interview, Perisic said "We had a lot of challenges on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001- A Space Odyssey with spacecraft and rockets flying against star backgrounds; I felt that there had to be a more efficient way other than rotoscoping and hand painted mattes."[8]

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ^ "Zoran Perisic". AllMovie. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  2. ^ Mills, Bart (July 30, 1981). "Look! No wires! How Superman flies". The Vancouver Sun. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. p. 25. Retrieved April 2, 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Closed access icon
  3. ^ "'Homecoming Night' is horror and humor; 'Bandits' is just pretty". The Evening Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. November 4, 1986. p. 29. Retrieved April 2, 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Closed access icon
  4. ^ "The 51st Academy Awards (1979) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  5. ^ "The 58th Academy Awards (1986) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  6. ^ McCall, Douglas (September 11, 2015). Film Cartoons: A Guide to 20th Century American Animated Features and Shorts. McFarland. p. 84. ISBN 9781476609669 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "Zoran Perisic / Serbia, USA". nsff.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 2025-08-16.
  8. ^ a b "Effects of days past: making Superman fly | fxphd". www.fxphd.com/. Retrieved 2025-08-16.
  9. ^ "Magic Fountain, The – Nostalgia Central". nostalgiacentral.com. Retrieved 2025-08-16.
  10. ^ McCall, Douglas (September 11, 2015). Film Cartoons: A Guide to 20th Century American Animated Features and Shorts. McFarland. p. 84. ISBN 9781476609669 – via Google Books.
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