…and audiences went wild.
Category: Retro
What it took to make ‘Stuart Little’s’ fur, 20 years ago
A short history of mouse fur at Sony Pictures Imageworks.
How this stylized hand-drawn-esque CG animated short was made…in 1992
All about PDI and Eric Darnell’s ‘Gas Planet’.
Talking animal VFX: the pioneering films you might not know about
Before you see ‘Lady and the Tramp’, re-visit these landmark speaking animal effects.
Some of your favorite CG ‘Toy Story’ characters actually began as clay sculpts
Inside the old-school modeling process with Pixar’s Bill Reeves.
‘Stargate’ stories
Jeffrey A. Okun reflects on the somewhat tumultuous VFX history of the classic sci-fi film.
The tech of ‘Terminator 2’ – an oral history
Everything from Make Sticky to Body Sock and painting a grid onto Robert Patrick.
You might be surprised how Thing was made for ‘The Addams Family’
‘Casting’ a hand was a tricky job.
The secrets behind the life (and death) of Titanic’s propeller guy
VFX crew from ‘Titanic’ reflect on the saddest character of them all.
40 years of ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’
The film is back in cinemas for a super-short time.
Remembering this killer ILM shot from ‘Deep Impact’
Chris Horvath revisits some early ILM CG fluid sims.
That time James Cameron gave ILM a day to come up with a test for ‘The Abyss’
What should a CG water tentacle should look like, anyway?
A fine line between grotesque and hilarious: making ‘The Mask’s’ landmark nightclub transformations
The film’s director and key ILM crew share their stories on ‘The Mask’s’ 25th anniversary.
‘The sooner you kill me, the happier I’ll be’: a VFX oral history of Samuel L. Jackson’s shocking ‘Deep Blue Sea’ departure
The making of a classic death scene.
Before you see the new CG ‘Lion King’, re-visit the CG of 1994’s ‘Lion King’
‘Stampede. In the gorge. Simba’s down there!’