![]() Both were discarded due to lack of movement. Another technique had a remote control cast of Superman flying around. The first test for the flying sequences involved simply catapulting a crash test dummy out of a cannon. ![]() This shows how flying was achieved in the movie Superman from 1978. I had to take an entry from Wikipedia for this one. Then of course you see this going further in movies like Godzilla (not the American version) and then of course now, with computers making object look huge requires no models at all. It is a very labor-intensive method: models have to be moved a fraction of an inch, their facial expressions changed, and then shot, with 24 different shots being taken for just one second of film. King Kong himself was an animated model, brought to life on screen using stop-motion filming. It is one of the most memorable examples of early experiments with special effects. ![]() Making Anything Look Giant – King Kong 1933 I can’t believe I’m mentioning Double Impact as a pioneer in this effect. Nowadays technology is so good that they replace faces on bodies if they want to do the twin effect ( Social Network) and don’t even need to use a split screen. In the early 80’s we would see this and you could almost “see” the split screen. The technology of the split screen was used well before this movie, however Double Impact was definitely the movie that saw this technology become 100 times better. The Twin Effect – Double Impact (Split Screen Technology) I’ve heard this is called the “Ghost Effect.” Turns out these effects were done by the crew at ILM (George Lucas’s facility). I remember having never seen this before. I’m not 100% sure what you call this effect but I’m sure you guys can recall the scenes where people would go into the corn field and basically fade into nothing as they would walk. The Fading Person into Nothing – Field of Dreams In some scenes the T-1000 changes from a computer generated form, “liquid metal” into a humonoid structure. The T-1000 does not just change from one thing in the real world to another. Termintor 2 however took morphing to a whole new level. The Fantasy movie Willow featured the world’s first morph onscreen. Some may think Terminator 2 is the first movie with such computer generated morphing, but that is simply not the case. The T-1000 changes from one form to another via a computer process which is generally known as morphing. Robert Patrick’s T-1000 character could not exist without computer effects such as morphing and warping. Terminator 2 – Liquid (Morphing and Warping) Nowadays? Now it’s usually a command here and a button there and all of a sudden you have an entire world at your disposal.īut you can bet when these effects first hit the scene they were talked about time and time again. Hell even the simple effect of having a character look like a giant took hundreds upon hundreds of man hours. Before blues screen technology and other such effects, it was quite difficult to achieve things like flying sequences or body doubling. Before the advanced stages of CG and other computer technology it was plain old special effects that were used in movies to achieve certain goals for the screen.
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