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I think the Star Wars prequels costume designers need more applause.

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Robocop arms explained by the artist. “... [due to small studio, used] an extremely wide angle lens on the camera, which caused distortion especially when he's nearest to camera. The puppet's arms were not built so out of proportion ...” (See second image) HT Rocco

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Bursting your bubbles folks ... CGI and practical switches are seamless these days. This is image is digital. Perfect match!

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Facebook user Johnny Darrel used MidJourney to imagine what it would look like if Jodorowsky directed TRON. Trippy.

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Finally showed ALIEN to my oldest daughter who’d been avoiding it. Often hiding behind her own hands for half a second, muttering “jump scare coming,” and leaping out of her seat when the alien reveals the last hiding place. Ash caught her by absolute surprise. She loved it!

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You may look cool, but are you Cornelius cool?

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Jon Carter is a better movie than we were told it was.

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This sequence received a standing ovation in our sneak preview theater. I thought this movie would own the box office. Good, clean, Raiders-style adventure. Oh yeah … a James Cameron film out at the same time. Hmm…

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"You'd pay to see a man fly, wouldn't you?" (📽️The Rocketeer, 1991)

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Still incredibly stunning. The flame simulation for Lord of the Rings Balrog was not ready at the time, so particles using animated flame sprites, filmed over a hibachi in the VFX supervisors back yard on a hi-8 video camera would suffice. #VFXarchaeology

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— gandalf the grey; balrog; bridge of khazad-dûm; the fellowship of the ring

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I love this ship.

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Ralph McQuarrie planning paintings

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Texas switch in animated films.

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This computer animation trick in Toy Story really blew my mind when I first saw how they did it. It goes to show you that layout in computer animation is just as important as any other department.

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One day per frame to render this.

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My favorite part of #Dune was this mouse creature that catches its own sweat with its ears and then drinks it to maintain hydrated.

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Captain EO miniature. You will likely never see this kind of work ever again. #VFX

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This blue screen is so flat and pure I could cry ...

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All VFX for War of the Worlds completed in three months. This was just one sequence that would normally take that amount of time. An incredible achievement by Dennis Muren and ILM, which established a precedent Hollywood expects to this day. #VFXarchaeology

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Lighting the Death Star 1977 It always had a fairly soft edge to it. For the special editions, John Knoll used multiple post light sources with slightly different color temperatures to emulate this broader source. #VFXarchaeology

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Ralph McQuarrie.

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I'd like to say this is Return of the Jedi Sweded ... but this is the OG #VFXarchaeology animatic by Joe Johnston and Dennis Muren from 1983

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Star Trek the Motion Picture work bee in progress. HT Bruce Koski on FB

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Star Trek Beyond gave us truly alien characters. She only appeared in one scene, but the work is absolutely incredible!

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“The Cylons think that more Greeblies will protect them … but that is where they are wrong .”

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"I do not use the storyboard. I think it is the instrument of a coward." -Werner Herzog “Everything is decided on paper… I think a film should be made on paper ahead of time.” -Alfred Hitchcock

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This makeup design for The Mandalorian - is that an @actordougjones lifecast he is sculpting on?

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4 years

Can we talk about the Star Wars retro style graphics for Mandolorian? Better yet - how did they make the 1977 versions?

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I truly loved the stop motion TaunTauns in Empire. So much fantasy world building in 1980 - was only ever available in Harryhausen films.

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Have to admit, Adam Driver brought a new energy to turning on a lightsaber.

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Saying it again. SOLO is great.

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Humanoid History

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Robot sheep used in agricultural research at Murdoch University in Australia, 1985.

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“Based on Stuart Freeborn, is my face!”

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Okay VFX folks …. Reference to how fast a big explosion happens in space. Not much different than when we blew them up in miniature for the movies. 3-5 frames. Any logic that it would go slower because of size is now defunct.

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@tvaziri @beforesmag This shot from FRINGE. I developed the 3D skin tracking system and rebuilt the base mesh. Taught it to ChristinaM (one of our new tracking artists who knocked it out of the park.) @mkirylo1 killed it on the modeling and animation, and I composited in After Effects.

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More unfortunate #VFXreference

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Still one the best helmet designs in Star Wars.

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@OnePerfectShot some visual effects were involved. Their credits were rarely listed then.

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Phillip K. Dick reacts to Blade Runner.

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The Douglas Trumbull conclusion in the early 1990s on High Frame Rate that no one seems to have read. #VFXarchaeology

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The makeup artwork by Steve Wang

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Digitally composited.

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Wild how seamless this composite of the taxi shooting through a stream of traffic is. Modern CG still can't even make a car driving along look believable most of the time.

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#SIGGRAPH2018 #ralphbreakstheinternet

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Thank you everyone!

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This is a good example of Freddie Francis using his LightFlex system. Note the creamy brown tones of the "black" costumes in this shot.

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DUNE (1984) DP: Freddie Francis Director: David Lynch More Shots:

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Gary Hutzel in this photo. He would later go on to helm the Galactica reboot VFX.

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Defiant dimensions

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Because you can be in two places at the same time.

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#VFXarchaeology First CGI Enterprise tests 1987

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The biggest headache in visual effects is color management.

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Busy little @PhilTippett on Howard the Duck HT Diego Mariscal on FB

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Going to have to find that photo of the Borg ship surface I took in the ILM model shop in 1996. Until then, here is another from 2019.

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First Contact Borg Cube - closeup

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Please note the very familiar sound effect in MOONRAKER for the computer - almost one year before it became familiar as the voice of MOTHR in ALIEN.

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Blade Runner

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@pascalblanche Brilliant! I also noticed Frazetta's work falls into perfect line with classic geometric orthogon-style (like the golden section) layout. Whether he does this intentionally or intuitively is not clear, but his work is astounding!

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Some HD frame grabs from THE BLACK HOLE

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Rotoscoping garbage mattes 1976 for Star Wars. #VFXarchaeology

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It’s a beauty. This and the X-wing were my favorites.

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Viper starfighter from Battlestar Galactica (1978). #BattlestarGalactica

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Part of the #VFXmemorialWall for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. We are honored by your sacrifice.

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Part of the #VFXmemorialWall for Napoleon. We are honored by your sacrifice (Let’s make this one go viral)

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Terminator 2 storyboards. #VFXdig

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Trolling the net for some Big Trouble

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Hey VFX folk. That feeling in the pit of your stomach as you watch the AI tech explode …. You are now feeling what practical effects did in the early 1990s. Just like Phil. Who is still in the game, and still boss level.

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Baby’s Day Out?

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This is getting out of hand! Now there are three of them!

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Somewhere in 1979 …

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Always. I I’ll never apologize for loving this film.

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THE BLACK HOLE (1979)

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The Empire Strikes Back Storyboard by Joe Johnston, Full size mechanical Taun-Taun, oversize walker armature for the drop scene, and Deep Roy in a Yoda costume for wide walking shots.

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There was a quality to fantasy film in this era that is hard to match.

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Okay kiddies - outdoor, high angle, Empire Strikes Back .... Let's play "Find the Matte painting"

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Tankhistoria on FB shared this old German minesweeper test vehicle from WW2. So incredibly SciFi looking, but real.

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Shot design! Such beauty in simplicity. Almost everything is complex these days.

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Star Trek: the Wrath of Khan (1982)

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Here is @scott_squires working on an Evans and Sutherland computer system during the making of Star Trek the Motion Picture about 1978 - on a system designed to previsualize motion control moves, and directly drive cameras. #VFXarchaeology

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Part of the #VFXmemorialWall for DUNE Part Two We are honored by your sacrifice.

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This thread with some golden nuggets from the VISUAL EFFECTS Bake off Let’s put you in the room!

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Ron Thorton and his work with Lightwave software was mind blowing at the time.

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📺DEBUT: 'Babylon 5' premiered as a TV movie 31 years ago, March 1, 1993

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Storyboards constantly Change

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Sebastian Shaw's Darth Vader makeup, 1983. Via the Prop Store. #VFXarchaeology

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#VFXreference

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Tonight’s Entertainment: Somewhere In Time

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Tweetstorm follows. #Bakeoff Jan 13, 2023 Welcome to the 2023 VFX Bake-off notes! I used to publish these on the day, but will heretofore delay until voting is done, but before results announced. These were written as the bakeoff proceeded. (1/45)

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The animationnon the laser beams has rarely been matched.

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@pablohidalgo I AM BOTHAN

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WETA digital using the newer UnReal engines for hair and fur strand tests. This is all real time. #VirtualProduction

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Just remember ... you do not have to use the DiCaprio image all the time.

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BTW the Creator is a great movie!

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How much can a 9-year old stare at this image and whole new worlds open up before him? Let me tell ya!

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So long Norman Reynolds. Thank you for the epic things you did. Rest now.

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Tonight’s entertainment Despecialized

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George Lucas watching this, thinking of how much money he could have saved …. :)

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Incredible drone footage flying over a volcano and lava flows at night, captured by Iceland Aerials.

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"The rod puppet Alien and its compositing was handled by Boss Film in conjunction with ADI, who provided a mold for the 40inch puppet. Boss also handled the CG elements in the film, which included the creature’s shadows and a brief shot of its dome cracking."

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1979-1980 ILM t-shirts

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The entire #VFXmemorialWall for OPPENHEIMER. We are honored by your sacrifice.

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Dennis Muren and how to light outdoor scenes for the battle of Hoth - and Brian Johnson’s reaction to them. American Cinematographer (1980) #VFXarchaeology