CONTENTS Editor’s Bench ___ Making Monsters | as John Dods fers a handy guide fo making monsters for the movies ‘explains how he made the spawn: The Deadly Spawn in this st} cover story Filmmakers’ Forum Aregular department devoted to readers ‘comments and correspondence about fantasy filmmaking. 2 Bulletin Shoes For 4 Dinosaurs? 14 GripKit Writer/fimmaker Paul Mandel discusses tie-downs for animation models. Producers’ Board __ 18 Latest news of our readers’ productions, Issue #18 20) Uselul accessories for filmmakers. Cinemagic Market- place 21 Classified advertising and Electronic Special Effects 22 Chis Stevens has re-designed his sound effects generator to improve its Performance and get the “bugs” out. | ‘This "Box Full of Sound, I" is the “sequel” to the sound effects generator that was deserlbed in CINEMAGIC #14, Profile _ 28 ‘ - N CaINEMAGiC/SVA Short Fm Search Grand Prize winner Al Maglochet talks about the making of his graveyard tightmare, Dance Macabre. By John Clayton CINEMAGIC #18 3