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Zoran Perisic (visual effects artist)

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Zoran Perišić
Зоран Перишић
Born (1940-03-16) March 16, 1940 (age 86)
Prokuplje, Toplica District, Yugoslavia
(present-day Serbia)
Alma mater
OccupationsVisual effects artist, film director

Zoran Perišić (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Перишић; born March 16, 1940)[1] is a Serbian-American 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 the 1978 film Superman.[4] For his work in Superman, he won a Special Achievement Academy Award and a BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award. He was also nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Visual Effects for the film Return to Oz.[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. 1 2 "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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