special effects
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Terminator 2’s T-1000 Wasn’t All Computer Graphics
Films like The Abyss, Jurassic Park, and Terminator 2 might have heralded a new era of digital filmmaking, but realistic computer graphics were still in their infancy at the time. Old-school practical effects still played a big part in all of those movies, and this behind-the-scenes video shows how Stan Winston Studio brought the T-1000…
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None Of The Visual Effects Magic Behind Netflix’s The Christmas Chronicles Came From The North Pole
Long gone are the days when holiday revelers were satisfied with fake potato-flake snow or stop-motion puppets for their festive entertainment. Christmas movies are visual effects smorgasbords now, and Method Studios reveals all the digital magic it mustered to turn Kurt Russell into Saint Nick for Netflix’s The Christmas Chronicles.
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Relive The Creation Of The Original Predator Costume In This Excellently Detailed Video
Video: A huge part of why the Predator franchise is still relevant is the work of Stan Winston and his team. Their Oscar-nominated creature effects on the original 1987 film turned what could have been just a simple, scary monster into something iconic and timeless.
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How Hollywood FX Wizards Created The Magical Technology In Black Panther’s Wakanda
Arthur C. Clarke said “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” which seems like a perfect way to describe the gadgets and machines developed by the people of Wakanda in Marvel’s Black Panther. But to make those seemingly impossible technologies look real to moviegoers, the real-life wizards at Rise Visual Effects Studios used some…