“Neo looks at his hand; fingers distended into mirrored icicles that begin to melt rapidly, dripping, running like wax down his fingers, spreading across his palm where he sees his face reflected.”
Category: Retro
Anatomy of a crash: ‘The Matrix’s’ stunning helicopter scene
I knew it. He’s the one.
Secrets of ‘The Matrix’ code
It comes from Japanese cookbooks, it’s back to front, and it didn’t always flow vertically.
A visual journey inside the miniatures of ‘The Hudsucker Proxy’
Shooting models sideways, making Tim Robbins act in reverse, and the movies where the same miniatures made surprise reappearances.
‘We tried a million things’ – the oral history of ‘Sphere’s’ sphere
The sphere in ‘Sphere’, and how it was made.
‘I felt like it was a poem’: the VFX oral history of Guinness ‘Surfer’
Original CFC crew members reflect on bluescreen horses, crashing waves and a St. Patrick’s Day debut for the famous Jonathan Glazer spot.
‘Super Mario Bros.’: the other huge VFX film from 1993
The first film to use Flame in a big way, as well as several other VFX ‘firsts.’
Remembering ‘Ruby’s Saloon,’ and how it helped make Maya
The untold oral history of the short that helped promote Maya to the world.
Heads up: the oral history of ‘Iron Man’s’ original HUD
It changed HUDs forever – members of the original Iron Man HUD design group look back on the work.
Tracking nightmares: behind Blur’s half-digested Billy shots in Deep Rising
Tracking was (still) hard 20 years ago.
Three things you might not have known about Bullet Time
For befores & afters patrons.
Viewpaint: ILM’s secret weapon on ‘Jurassic Park’
Do you really know how they texture painted the dinosaurs?