Practical effects

As regular readers will know (from my previous miniatures post here, as well as other behind-the-scenes film posts which can be found here, here (about Return of the Jedi), here, here and here), I am fascinated by movie miniatures and how they can trick the viewer into completely believing the world the film-maker presents to them. When I wrote my first miniatures post, I didn't want to talk about the ILM work on "Star Wars" as it's been so well documented in the past (though I couldn't…

How your movie magic is made.

In The Thing and the other The Thing, we see it in a variety of shapes and sizes, but do we have any idea of its natural or original form? Maybe it doesn't have one, maybe its form is based on wha...

This is the alien from the thing (1982 version) interesting fact: it can take anyones dna and transform into them, making it really hard to tell who is human and who isnt!

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While working on a feature film called The Grind, filmmaker Vashi Nedomansky had to come up with a way to shoot a flashback scene, complete with Humvee,

Nowadays, when we see movies like Interstellar, Avatar or any film that includes huge visual effects you know exactly how the movie was filmed, in a

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SFX miniature work for da movies.