The original Predator design, a monster so good that special effects were used to enhance the character through multiple movies, not replace it wholesale. An idea that The Predator director Shane Black plans to stick to.
Even in an age of special effects that are this close to hopping over the uncanny valley, practical effects still managed to trump whatever a computer can generate. It’s not hard to see why: It’s cheaper, far more ingenious and while it still does look fake, it looks less fake than anything you’d see rendered out of a special effects studio. That's the route that team for Alien: Covenant when it came time to make the blood flow.
From the gigantic rotting head of a dead Celestial through to the shining spires that house the Nova Corps, the galaxy is as wondrous to explore as it is lethal in these Marvel movies. A beauty that’ll be amped up even further in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, especially when Ego the Living Planet makes an appearance.
Director Michael Bay says that the visual effects for Transformers: The Last Knight actually broke the computers at Industrial Light and Magic.
There’s something magical about having a proper Star Wars experience. When you’re sitting in a packed cinema, and you hear that familiar tune blaze around you in skull-shattering Dolby Surround Sound, reading a familiar scrawl of text before the camera pans down towards a planet, you’re most likely ridiculously happy for that one moment. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is …
These days, just about any movie can have special effects. With cheaper, faster computers, filmmakers now have access to many programs that can insert a dinosaur or remove a stuntman whenever they want to. But some films don’t have that big of a budget. Hell, some films of the past had to make do with quick solutions that didn’t look …
Special effects teams are the unsung heroes of big budget movies these days. These are the guys who have to spend a ridiculous amount of hours every day working on normal thumbs for Megan Fox or vast technicolour explosions for summer blockbusters. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes is no exception, with the special effects work having undergone a …
Children of the 80s and 90s, you may remember a time when movie special effects weren’t computer generated. They were actually practical; they existed in some tangible form or other (stop-motion models, miniatures, latex make-up effects etc.) in our reality. So today’s question is: do you miss practical special effects? Do you think CGI is ruining the movie experience, creating …
It would be naive to say climate change is not real — or that …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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