Unlike other shows who sneakily add special effects without you realizing, The Walking Dead is so overtly gruesome and bloody and gore-y that we’re completely aware that what we see is being spiced up with visual effects. Still, it’s awesome to see how the effects are added. Stargate Studios shows off the reel of effects it worked on for this past season 3 of The Walking Dead. Spoiler alerts, obv. More »
In shots where they were seen walking, Jurassic Park’s resident brachiosaurs were realized with ground-breaking computer animation. But for shots when the film’s human characters interacted with them high in the trees, the brachiosaurs were brought to life with complicated animatronics created by Stan Winston Studios. More »
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Researchers at Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII) have developed a video inpainting software that can effectively remove people or objects from high definition footage. Inpainting is the process of reconstructing lost or deteriorated parts of images and videos. When people or objects are digitally removed from an image, it will leave an empty space in the background. Inpainting fills up the empty space with parts of image or video frame with the same background. (more…)
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The original Jurassic Park came out 20 years ago, and while the FX industry has shifted more towards computer-generated effects since its release, it’s still awesome to see how some of the film’s practical effects were realized. More »
Seriously, after seeing ILM work its magic in all of its movie, I basically trust ILM with anything. If the next movie ILM works on doesn’t involve real actors or real sets or even a real script, I don’t care, I’m in. If ILM told me it could make a world better than real life, I’d totally sign up. Anything ILM does is gold. The visual effects wizards can even magically, er, digitally recreate New York City. Watch. More »
Almost a third of The Avengers may have been set in New York, but as this video from Industrial Light & Magic’s YouTube channel shows us, hardly any of the filming took place in the Big Apple itself. Since actually filming in New York would have been difficult—what with the many road-blocking restrictions and the city generally looking down on setting their streets and/or citizens on fire—almost everything had to be digitally recreated. More »
Industrial Light and Magic has been in the visual effects game since the original Star Wars. And if you need any further proof that they’re still one of the top FX shops on the planet, here’s another look at the work they did to bring the Hulk to life in The Avengers. More »
ILM or Industrial Light & Magic or the wonderful CGI wizards who create visual effects that are better than real life just gave a look behind the curtain of its fantasy shop to show us how they created the Hulk in The Avengers. More »
Sometimes things on TV can look so real that we think it’s happening in real life. That’s the magic of the moving pictures! Like this fake plane crash for the TV show Chicago Fire, it fooled the news broadcast WGN-TV and tricked real people on the ground too. More »
Films like The Abyss, Jurassic Park, and Terminator 2 might have heralded a new era of digital filmmaking, but realistic computer graphics were still in their infancy at the time. Old-school practical effects still played a big part in all of those movies, and this behind-the-scenes look shows how Stan Winston Studio brought the T-1000 to life in many scenes without a single pixel. More »
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