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Jun 22nd 2001#6614 Report
keen
Member since: Jun 22nd 2001
Posts: 59
How do those artists do the "special effects" in movies?
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Jun 22nd 2001#6622 Report
Fig
Member since: Mar 18th 2001
Posts: 1604
Oh, well they just...umm...play on computers and then it comes out cool.

You're asking a rather deep question. Some of the stuff on this site may help you get started with an answer:
http://www.vfxpro.com/

Chris
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Jun 24th 2001#6708 Report
markzebra
Member since: Jun 11th 2001
Posts: 108
Thats got to be joke .. right????

Actually its all real, there are no "effects" as such.
You know in Independance Day when that Alien Space ship blew up the Whitehouse?
Well actually there was this Alien Space ship and it really blew up the Whitehouse!
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Jun 24th 2001#6710 Report
ZDevil::2001
Member since: Mar 18th 2001
Posts: 223
...and Godzilla really crushed New York? Yeah right. Ok some stuff is done using miniatures but lots of stuff is done using a computer too.
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Jul 3rd 2001#7444 Report
vortex
Member since: Jun 23rd 2001
Posts: 331
Stuff like the Matrix: they use Maya. If you see screenshots of the BulletTime parts of the Matrix, they just use glass circles with their radii in a sine-wave fashion... Hard to make it look real, though.

For the explosions, they probably just blow up a miniature model of the thing somewhere out in the desert...

And no, they didn't blow up the White House, but last time I was in New York, it wasn't pretty ;) .
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Jul 3rd 2001#7471 Report
tornupinside
Member since: Mar 27th 2001
Posts: 2237
Some of the coolest effects I've ever seen on film was "Pearl Harbor"

The I got the june issue of "Computer graphics world"
http://www.cgw.com

Guess what was in that issue?

the making of some of those effects!.....ummm, YAY!

anyway.... here is the aritcle.

http://cgw.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=Articles&Subsection=Display&ARTICLE_ID=102783

BTW, fill out the form for the free issues of cgw....it is a pretty cool mag.... if you like that sort of thing... lol
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Jul 4th 2001#7477 Report
septor
Member since: Jun 29th 2001
Posts: 73
speaking of maya
I have that program and that sh.. is confusing as hell guys
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Jul 4th 2001#7488 Report
GrassFolk
Member since: May 3rd 2001
Posts: 414
The whole Godzilla movie was a hoax! I crossed the Brooklyn Bridge last week....it's still there!!! When I was in college (second time and I still don't have a degree) , there was a class across the hall from one of mine and they were using the software used in "Titanic"....or so they say. I wish I could remember the name? Could you imagine the price?!
Later,
Justin
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