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I was talking to Jill, and the discussion of jobs came up, which got me thinking on special effects companies again.

While I have looked up a few individually when they had been brought specifically to my attention, I have never actually gone onlien an attempted to do a search for them in general.

I tried it; it didn't go too fell. Then I found a link to Cinefex's online site...my friend Amanda had recommended the magazine to me; it actually helped me quite a bit. And the site has an index of every SE company that has every been included in it's articles.
http://www.cinefex.com/index/listings/companies.html

..unfortunately, it doesn't link them directly to the company's homesites (assuming they have one) but it does give me a big list of things to search individually.

I realized the first few on the list were all computer-based, and skipped to the first one that looked to be more physical.
I started with "All Effects", which isn't really a small enough margin to get the studio, which I did not...but it DID bring up this site, fifth down:

http://www.vfxhq.com/

Another one that looks to be very useful.

I looked up Jurassic Park there, since they have a list of what studios won offical awards for their work and I know that movie had one of the best animatronics (dinosaurs) of its time, and that gave me Stan Winston Studios. I did a separate search for them...they have a site online...and a very very useful FAQ.

http://www.stanwinstonstudio.com/home.html

...And the FAQ refers back to Cinefex and another magazine.