Lots of VFX stuff, and keeper of the #spockalypse Known to post on twitter.

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RED ROVERS by Johnathan Banta #UnReal More info: agraphafx.com/red-rovers-an-…
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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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All hail the community notes on this one!!
This Burberry ad also blows my mind. No green screens or major CGI, just people suspended in cables, unreal!
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A team of more than 20 VFX and CGI artists from studios MPC and The Mill worked on this spot. "We were asked to craft the visual effects and photoreal CG [...] From extensive photogrammetry to CG scenery" themill.com/the-mill/vfx/b
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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…
"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
— gandalf the grey; balrog; bridge of khazad-dûm; the fellowship of the ring
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Ralph McQuarrie planning paintings
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I love this ship.
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Texas switch in animated films.
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.
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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The Phantom Menace changed visual effects, and filmmaking. So many techniques that we use daily in this profession were either little ideas or pipe dreams just before this. I’ll name a few, but this is an open #VFXarchaeology thread on methods pushed forward by this film.

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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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All hail the thousands of rotoscope artists who traced every frame of this movie, so they could add in all the scary Competer GENERATED images created by artisans.
Denis Villeneuve on the making of Blade Runner 2049: “I can count on my fingers the amount of times we put a green screen on set. Most of the movie was done on camera, me and Roger Deakins worked very hard to do it that way. My actors were not walking on green screens all day long. CGI is a strong tool for backgrounds and extensions but what is around the actors needs to be as real as possible. When I watch a movie that’s mostly CGI, I’m disengaged.” (via @Screendaily)
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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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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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Have to admit, Adam Driver brought a new energy to turning on a lightsaber.
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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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Saying it again. SOLO is great.

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“Based on Stuart Freeborn, is my face!”
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Robot sheep used in agricultural research at Murdoch University in Australia, 1985.
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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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Replying to @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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Replying to @OnePerfectShot
some visual effects were involved. Their credits were rarely listed then.
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Still one the best helmet designs in Star Wars.
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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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This photo from André Bustanoby @vfxsup64 of the Dykstraflex on display at the Academy museum. Andre help rebuild the 5 foot Millennium Falcon model, as it first appeared, using photogrammetry and 3D tracking to figure out the exact size of the understructure. #VFXarxhaeology
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Digitally composited.
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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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.
DUNE (1984) DP: Freddie Francis Director: David Lynch More Shots: bit.ly/2Dq3CDC
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Gary Hutzel in this photo. He would later go on to helm the Galactica reboot VFX.
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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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I miss the apex of the art form that music videos were. Admittedly this was aprx 30 years ago, but there were entire channels devoted to nothing but this short form art — good and bad — that drove pop culture.
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I spoke to the compositor of the Predator cloaking effect — optically done. My thought was that he did multiple generations of blur and high contrast mattes. Nope. Just two copies offset and overlaid to reduce the silhouette. Brilliantly efficient. #VFXarchaeology
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Busy little @PhilTippett on Howard the Duck HT Diego Mariscal on FB
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The biggest headache in visual effects is color management.
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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.
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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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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Blade Runner
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Some HD frame grabs from THE BLACK HOLE
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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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Rotoscoping garbage mattes 1976 for Star Wars. #VFXarchaeology
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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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Terminator 2 storyboards. #VFXdig
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It’s a beauty. This and the X-wing were my favorites.
Viper starfighter from Battlestar Galactica (1978). #BattlestarGalactica
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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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Somewhere in 1979 …
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Baby’s Day Out?
This is getting out of hand! Now there are three of them!
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Always. I I’ll never apologize for loving this film.
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The Enterprise arrives at ILM 1981. Due to VFX needs at ILM the original paint job would be semi-dulled for photography. Later the paint job would be completely replaced by Bran Ferren & Assoc for Trek V. This is the last shiny E. HT Special Effects, Effetti group on FB
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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.
Star Trek: the Wrath of Khan (1982)
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See? It’s easy. :)
VFX in the making
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Part of the #VFXmemorialWall for DUNE Part Two We are honored by your sacrifice.
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Ron Thorton and his work with Lightwave software was mind blowing at the time.
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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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This thread with some golden nuggets from the VISUAL EFFECTS Bake off Let’s put you in the room!
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Part of the #VFXmemorialWall for ALIEN Romulus We are honored by your sacrifice.
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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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Tonight’s Entertainment: Somewhere In Time
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The animationnon the laser beams has rarely been matched.
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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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WETA digital using the newer UnReal engines for hair and fur strand tests. This is all real time. #VirtualProduction
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I AM BOTHAN
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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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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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So long Norman Reynolds. Thank you for the epic things you did. Rest now.
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1979-1980 ILM t-shirts
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