If there’s any one scene that still sits with me decades after watching the original Ghost In The Shell anime film, it’s that moment where the Major strips down to a second skin and turns the invisibility up to 11. It’s a breath-taking image, made possible by unbelievable talent in the fields of animation and some actual science, resulting in a scene that was years ahead of its time. So how do you translate that to the real world, or at least the reality present in a Hollywood adaptation? With silicone. Lots and lots of silicone apparently.

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 …

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Did you know that a couple of years ago, that Warner Bros had plans to get all their heroes onto the big screen for a Justice League movie, well before Marvel hit the scenes with The Avengers? Well, it’s true, it’s damn true! So whatever happened to that proposed movie? George “Mad Max” Miller was set to direct it, and …

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Like I mentioned yesterday, Hollywood loves comics. One of the main reasons why we’re suddenly seeing such a boom of comic book adaptations is because of the advances in CGI that’s been made over the last few years. We can finally reproduce true reflections of comic book images on-screen, no matter how fantastical. The downside to all of this though, …

So you want your own fully functioning Team Fortress sentry gun to scare away robbers, jehova’s witnesses and in-laws from your house? Well thanks to the special effects guys at Weta in New Zealand Valve now has one in their lobby. Granted it doesn’t actually shoot bullets but it does pretty much everything else and I so want one… I …