The latest VFX Notes episode is here!
Hugo Guerra and Ian Failes are back to discuss the visual effects in the original Top Gun. A combination of real photography, miniatures, cockpit rear projection and animated HUDs were in the mix.
One fun effects technique used was a drill with an offset piece of wood fixed to a camera shooting the models, to give a special hand-held shaky look to the footage, something that had been pioneered on The Right Stuff.
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