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Category: Retro

Retro

Retro RenderMan: ILM’s stunning Davy Jones

Posted onAugust 19, 2020

The rendering advancements made for the extremely memorable character.

Retro

‘I’m treating my animals like movie stars’

Posted onAugust 13, 2020

Inside the VFX journey to make the animals of ‘Babe’ talk.

Retro

Neal Scanlan explains how Babe the pig was puppeteered

Posted onAugust 7, 2020August 8, 2020

‘When you watch a pig, it’s never still for one second.’

Retro

Behind the visual effects test that greenlit ‘Hollow Man’

Posted onAugust 6, 2020August 6, 2020

VFX supe Scott E. Anderson looks back at digital humans, greenscreen paint and the genius casting of Kevin Bacon.

Retro

The animatronic sheep in ‘Babe’ almost lost their coats before filming even started

Posted onAugust 4, 2020August 9, 2020

Plus other fun sheep stories from the movie, currently celebrating its 25th anniversary.

Retro

An admission: I totally forgot about the great CG spacesuits in ‘Space Cowboys’

Posted onAugust 3, 2020August 5, 2020

Righting that wrong with the film’s visual effects supervisor.

Retro

Retro RenderMan: shading on ‘Finding Nemo’

Posted onJuly 31, 2020August 1, 2020

How RenderMan was used for the film’s coral reef.

Retro

Tumultuous titles: the crazy story behind ‘Waterworld’s’ opening moments

Posted onJuly 27, 2020January 12, 2021

One of several memorable Universal logo take-overs, and it even involved a giant globe…

Retro

Retro RenderMan: shading food for ‘Ratatouille’

Posted onJuly 22, 2020July 23, 2020

How Pixar made cheese and bread and grapes look good enough to eat.

Retro

‘Stealth’ has the most memorable movie missile launch shot. Ever.

Posted onJuly 21, 2020August 13, 2020

Here’s how it was made, including the last minute changes.

Retro

Miniaturization secrets: Eric Brevig on ‘The Indian in the Cupboard’

Posted onJuly 18, 2020July 20, 2020

Celebrate the VFX of the now 25-year-old movie.

Retro

Did you know the finale of Ghost used video effects?

Posted onJuly 17, 2020

A look back at Boss Film’s end Heaven sequence.

Retro

Remember that pin table map from ‘X-Men’?

Posted onJuly 14, 2020July 15, 2020

Here’s how it was simulated, two decades ago.

Retro

When motion capture puppets were all the rage

Posted onJuly 13, 2020July 15, 2020

A look back at Boss Film’s input device for Species’ Sil.

Retro

Retro Renderman: Reflections in ‘Ratatouille’

Posted onJuly 8, 2020July 13, 2020

A look back at brick maps and radiance caches.

Retro

‘Die Hard 2’: the story behind that famous final matte painting pullback

Posted onJuly 3, 2020July 6, 2020

An iconic effect by ILM and an iconic effect in VFX history.

Retro

Six ‘Perfect Storm’ SFX stories

Posted onJuly 1, 2020July 2, 2020

“After the second take, somebody gave me a baton.”

Retro

Retro RenderMan: The hair and fur of ‘Ratatouille’

Posted onJuly 1, 2020July 2, 2020

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

Posted onJune 30, 2020July 2, 2020

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

Posted onJune 29, 2020October 21, 2020

How mocap and motion blur were critical for these early digi-doubles.

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