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Category: Retro

practical creatures breakdown
Posted onFebruary 17, 2020May 13, 2020inArticle, Retro

Whatever happened to the practical creatures from ‘Pitch Black’?

Gopher Broke
Posted onFebruary 16, 2020May 13, 2020inArticle, Retro

Looking back at ‘Sonic’ director Jeff Fowler’s Oscar-nominated ‘Gopher Broke’

The Beach VFX
Posted onFebruary 14, 2020May 13, 2020inArticle, Retro

A trip (back) to ‘The Beach’

Sheena Duggal
Posted onJanuary 24, 2020May 14, 2020inArticle, Retro

Sheena Duggal on ‘Contact’s’ memorable mirror moment

Jumanji
Posted onDecember 10, 2019May 13, 2020inArticle, Retro

That time a CG elephant crushed a car

Posted onDecember 5, 2019May 14, 2020inArticle, Retro

What it took to make ‘Stuart Little’s’ fur, 20 years ago

Gas Planet
Posted onNovember 27, 2019May 14, 2020inArticle, Retro

How this stylized hand-drawn-esque CG animated short was made…in 1992

THE ROCKETEER
Posted onNovember 24, 2019May 15, 2020inArticle, Retro

The stop-motion effects of ‘The Rocketeer’

Speaking of Animals
Posted onNovember 11, 2019May 14, 2020inArticle, Retro

Talking animal VFX: the pioneering films you might not know about

TOY STORY
Posted onNovember 6, 2019May 14, 2020inArticle, Retro

Some of your favorite CG ‘Toy Story’ characters actually began as clay sculpts

STARGATE
Posted onNovember 1, 2019May 14, 2020inArticle, Retro

‘Stargate’ stories

ILM
Posted onOctober 21, 2019August 20, 2020inArticle, Retro

The tech of ‘Terminator 2’ – an oral history

The Addams Family
Posted onOctober 7, 2019May 23, 2020inArticle, Retro

You might be surprised how Thing was made for ‘The Addams Family’

Titanic
Posted onSeptember 18, 2019May 23, 2020inArticle, Retro

The secrets behind the life (and death) of Titanic’s propeller guy

Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Posted onSeptember 16, 2019May 23, 2020inArticle, Retro

40 years of ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’

Pirates IMocap
Posted onSeptember 10, 2019May 31, 2020inArticle, Retro

‘Computer pajamas’: the history of ILM’s IMocap

Deep Impact
Posted onSeptember 6, 2019May 23, 2020inArticle, Retro

Remembering this killer ILM shot from ‘Deep Impact’

Re-visiting Waldo
Posted onAugust 24, 2019May 23, 2020inArticle, Retro

Re-visiting Waldo

The Abyss Waterhead
Posted onAugust 9, 2019May 23, 2020inArticle, Retro

That time James Cameron gave ILM a day to come up with a test for ‘The Abyss’

Posted onJuly 29, 2019May 23, 2020inArticle, Retro

A fine line between grotesque and hilarious: making ‘The Mask’s’ landmark nightclub transformations

Posted onJuly 24, 2019May 23, 2020inArticle, Retro

‘The sooner you kill me, the happier I’ll be’: a VFX oral history of Samuel L. Jackson’s shocking ‘Deep Blue Sea’ departure

CG 'Lion King
Posted onJuly 17, 2019May 19, 2020inArticle, Retro

Before you see the new CG ‘Lion King’, re-visit the CG of 1994’s ‘Lion King’

Crew photo for the causeway work. Leslie Ekker sits on the far right
Posted onJuly 15, 2019May 19, 2020inArticle, Retro

‘True Lies’ at 25: blowing up the causeway miniature

Forrest Gump movie scene
Posted onJuly 4, 2019May 19, 2020inArticle, Retro

‘I want to see it!’ ILMers on the time Gary Sinise first saw his missing legs in ‘Forrest Gump’

shooting 'Speed's' miniature L.A. Metro
Posted onJune 11, 2019June 12, 2020inArticle, Retro

A deep dive into shooting ‘Speed’s’ miniature L.A. Metro scenes

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