Saturday, August 31, 2013
Cinema's Greatest Effects Shots Picked By Hollywood's Top VFX Specialists
Features | Empire: From Eadweard Muybridge and George Méliès to James Cameron and Phil Tippett, the history of movie effects is basically the greatest bedtime story never told. Except it’s a yarn so full of dragons, dinosaurs and mimetic polyalloy killing machines sent back from the future that you’d never get any sleep after hearing it. As Life Of Pi and Avatar amply demonstrate, there are many chapters still to be written and innovations still to be forged, but whether in-camera, matte, prosthetic, CG, or just lovingly modelled by a man with a passion for Plasticine, effects have brought magic to the movies since the silent era. In a unique celebration of the art, Empire asked the people who make them happen to pick their favourites.
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I loved this article. I have always been so interested in special effects.
I love seeing old movies with special effects. It's sometimes so funny.
I like seeing old science fiction movies in which you can see monsters that are actually little clay modules. Or space ships that you can see the little "invisible" strings that are flying them.
As of the list, I feel like they might have missed 2 amazing movies that have really good special effects:
1. Lord of the Rings series - had so many special effects. The list is really endless. But I think some of the greatest effects there are the size doubles effects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_effects_of_The_Lord_of_the_Rings_film_trilogy
2. Avatar - the whole movie is just a special effect galore. Cameron just invented a whole new genre really of special effects and new camera Technics for 3d movies.
I always have loved well done special effects. It amazes me what people can do with some little dots, computers, and lots of hard work. Whether it's Davy Jones in "Pirates of the Caribbean" and his tentacles that are always moving and a bit slimy, or the complete insertion of of scenery and characters. I absolutely adore the trench sequence in "Star Wars: A New Hope" because it encompasses so many different, yet seemingly simple, techniques, ranging from miniatures to camera rotation.
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