The secrets behind the life (and death) of Titanic’s propeller guy
VFX crew from ‘Titanic’ reflect on the saddest character of them all.
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Retro
40 years of ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’
The film is back in cinemas for a super-short time.
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Remembering this killer ILM shot from ‘Deep Impact’
Chris Horvath revisits some early ILM CG fluid sims.
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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?
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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.
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‘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.
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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!’
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‘True Lies’ at 25: blowing up the causeway miniature
Behind the scenes of that Florida causeway scene in the James Cameron spy adventure.
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‘I want to see it!’ ILMers on the time Gary Sinise first saw his missing legs in ‘Forrest Gump’
…and other stories about the film’s classic invisible VFX.
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A deep dive into shooting ‘Speed’s’ miniature L.A. Metro scenes
Crashing models, crafting sparks old-school, front projection (!), simulating anamorphic lens flares, and the mistake that stayed in the film.
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‘Speed’: a tale of many buses
One bus had a section made of rubber, just in case Keanu ‘got into trouble’.
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Shooting ‘Speed’s’ opening titles almost destroyed the miniature elevator
‘We shoved so much light into the miniature that it was literally melting and coming apart.’
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The bus in ‘Speed’ wasn’t supposed to land like a 747
But it did, and it was still spectacular.
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‘He lost his head’
How they made Keanu Reeves and Dennis Hopper fight atop that train in ‘Speed’.
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