visual effects
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The Frightening Complexity of Visual Effects
When Star Wars was awarded the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1978 it marked the first time the visual component of effects was differentiated from sound. Yet, even in this moment when visual effects (VFX) was first recognised by the Academy, it was already being pointed to as the destroyer of the auteur…
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How The Biggest TV You’ve Ever Seen Helped First Man’s Oscar-Winning Visual Effects Look So Authentic
It’s not hard to pick out all the visual effects shots in movies like Avengers: Infinity War or Ready Player One, but First Man was shot more like a documentary, so the extensive visual effects had to be seamless and invisible. To help accomplish this, built one of the most amazing TVs you’ve ever seen,…
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How Westworld VFX Artists Created Disturbing Illusion Of Burning Flesh
Even knowing they’re robots, watching Westworld’s hosts go under the knife for repairs was even more gruesome than the bloody battles that sent them to the ER. But in addition to using lots of CG, visual effects studio Pixomondo employed some old-school special effects tricks to make those surgeries look as disturbingly realistic as possible.
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It Wasn’t Just The Dinosaurs That Were Fake, Even Jurassic World Itself Was One Giant Special Effect
Video: Modern visual effects are easy to spot when they’re creating something you know doesn’t actually exist in real life. Velociraptors and T-rexes are obviously the work of talented visual effects artists, but in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, even the island under the imaginary theme park was a digital creation, brought to life on a…