special effects
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I Would Happily Rewatch Paddington 2 With All Of The Visual Effects Removed
With 98 and 100 per cent scores on Rotten Tomatoes, you’re missing out if you haven’t seen 2015’s delightful Paddington, or the sequel that came out this year. Even more delightful is this behind-the-scenes look at some of the visual effects from Paddington 2, which reveals how actors perform with a tiny bear that’s never…
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Watch VFX Wizards Make All The Magic In Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them
Video: It’s doubtful if any of the Harry Potter books could have been turned into movies without the benefit of modern visual effects techniques. And while so much of what you see in blockbuster movies is created by a computer now, it’s fun to see the old-school, on-set tricks used to make films such as…
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These Real-Time Visual Effects Will Remind You Not To Believe Everything You See On TV
Video: You’ve probably seen countless behind-the-scenes videos of visual effects wizards spending months turning boring green screen footage into amazing movie shots. But did you know that the hardware exists to fake live video in real time? Is anything real any more?
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Watch How Hollywood Fakes The Ocean Using Nothing But A Ton Of Water And Some Construction Equipment
Adam Savage and the Tested crew spent a bit of time behind-the-scenes of Blade Runner 2049 while the movie was in production, and seeing how the special effects team fakes the ocean by splashing around in a monstrous water tank is especially fascinating.