Zoran Perià ¡ià(; born March 16, 1940) is a Serbian-born visual effects artist and film director. He is best known for creating the "Zoptic" front projection process, which was invented to achieve the flying scenes in Superman (1978). 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).
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.
Early in his career, he worked as a documentary and animation cameraman for ITV Yorkshire, where he created and directed the programme The Magic Fountain. Perisic's first feature film credit was in the effects department of (1968). In a 2013 interview, Perisic said "We had a lot of challenges on Stanley KubrickâÂÂs 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."