How Pacific Rim Made Us Think Giant Robots Were Fighting Sea Monsters

How Pacific Rim Made Us Think Giant Robots Were Fighting Sea Monsters

Last year’s box office hit Pacific Rim pitted humanity’s last hope — gargantuan co-piloted mechas, known as Jägers — against a seemingly unstoppable race of city-sized sea monsters bent on destroying our world in two hours of special-effects laden mayhem.

Here’s how ILM managed to make these monsters — both good and bad — so terrifyingly realistic.