Retro An admission: I totally forgot about the great CG spacesuits in ‘Space Cowboys’ Righting that wrong with the film’s visual effects supervisor.
Retro Tumultuous titles: the crazy story behind ‘Waterworld’s’ opening moments One of several memorable Universal logo take-overs, and it even involved a giant globe…
Retro Retro RenderMan: shading food for ‘Ratatouille’ How Pixar made cheese and bread and grapes look good enough to eat.
Retro ‘Stealth’ has the most memorable movie missile launch shot. Ever. Here’s how it was made, including the last minute changes.
Retro Miniaturization secrets: Eric Brevig on ‘The Indian in the Cupboard’ Celebrate the VFX of the now 25-year-old movie.
Retro Did you know the finale of Ghost used video effects? A look back at Boss Film’s end Heaven sequence.
Retro When motion capture puppets were all the rage A look back at Boss Film’s input device for Species’ Sil.
Retro ‘Die Hard 2’: the story behind that famous final matte painting pullback An iconic effect by ILM and an iconic effect in VFX history.
Retro Retro RenderMan: The hair and fur of ‘Ratatouille’ The star of the film had 1,150,070 hairs (and it wasn’t Linguini).
Retro The ‘Apollo 13’ effects you might not know about Including the time VFX supe Rob Legato used an Evian spray bottle for outer-space particles.
Retro Here’s what it took back in ’95 to make a digital stunt double of Sylvester Stallone How mocap and motion blur were critical for these early digi-doubles.
Retro ‘The Great Escape with chickens’: Aardman’s Peter Lord reflects on ‘Chicken Run’ The stop-motion film is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
Retro You could have bought this ‘Batman Forever’ miniature RC Batmobile for £20,000… The film turns 25 this week.
Retro ‘That will not work, Houston, we got bridges every few 100 yards’ Looking back at Rising Sun Pictures’ wild space shuttle crash-landing for ‘The Core’.
Retro The failed motion capture that still resulted in one of ‘Total Recall’s’ best scenes The film’s X-ray sequence seemed perfect for mocap…
Retro The ‘real-time’ hand-drawn animatics process that made ‘Casper’ possible And it was done on an…Amiga.
Retro ‘Mission: Impossible II’ – a virtual production game-changer All about Manex’s approach to image-based rendering on the film, from a member of the team back then.
Retro Dino-cam! All about ‘Dinosaur’s’ computerized cable camera system Getting that dino point of view.
Articles, Retro The CG side of ‘Crimson Tide’ VFX supe Pete Travers reflects on the early days of Dynamation.
Articles, Retro The story behind ‘Cloverfield’s’ classic Statue of Liberty shot …and why it was different in the teaser trailer.
Articles, Retro Some VFX nostalgia: ‘Harry Potter’ quidditch and the creature shop Effects videos from the ‘Harry Potter’ series.
Articles, Retro The true story behind ‘Gladiator’s’ prosthetic tiger How the practical effect formed part of the film’s classic Colosseum scene.