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[Todd Gross]

I found these links and wanted to share:

5 Ridiculous Origins of Movie Sound Effects

8 Movie Special Effects You Won't Believe Aren't CGI

I also figured it would be fun to have a discussion of special effects.

[steveuk]

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I also figured it would be fun to have a discussion of special effects.

Yeah, it's always SO much fun!

[Todd Gross]

Yeah, it's always SO much fun!

Hey, it could be worse: The 5 Miserable VFX Jobs That Make Movies Possible

[steveuk]

Hey, it could be worse: The 5 Miserable VFX Jobs That Make Movies Possible

Yep.

They're not kidding either.

[Sanjay]

VFX, what a load of nonsense!

[James Dodsworth]

Those were fun articles.

I didn't realise the insanity that went into the effects in Bram Stoker's Dracula. Crazy!

[Rory Abel]

VFX, what a load of nonsense!

It's all done with smoke and mirrors, right?

[Ulf Imwiehe]

I must admit this does crack me up:

[steveuk]

VFX, what a load of nonsense!

Very long hours in that game, so I hear.

[Mike]

It's all done with smoke and mirrors, right?

And caffeine, nicotine and improbable encounters.

[steveuk]

Those were fun articles.

I didn't realise the insanity that went into the effects in Bram Stoker's Dracula. Crazy!

That's simply how it was done before the 90's. All Roman did was follow his father's direction and do it "old school".

So "crazy"? Maybe. "Unusual"? Only for the last 20 years or so.

i can't embed this, but it's a documentary from the DVD on the VFX from the film;

http://www.tudou.com...ew/VIJa7grzZP0/

[Ben the Obiwomble]

I enjoy reading stuff like this, that a load of people decided to create effect X by doing X, Y, Z - probably involving models, explosives and cameras plus whatever else is needed, is kind of cool.

[David Meadows]

The list missed the classic example of the X-Wing engines in Star Wars: The sound guy went to an air force base (so the story goes) to record jets taking off. They sounded wrong, but the air conditioner in his motel room sounded just right...

[steveuk]

The Future of CGI w/ Michael Bay, Jon Favreau, Ray Liotta and Paul Scheer & Rob Huebel from Michael Bay

[garjones]

I think it's at least part of the anti CGI backlash that there aren't really interesting stories behind those SFX, just a bloke at a desk. I enjoyed the Star Trek one where they filmed them standing on a mirror with a wind machine to emulate a fall from the sky. Cheap and it worked (fooled me anyway).

[steveuk]

I think it's at least part of the anti CGI backlash that there aren't really interesting stories behind those SFX, just a bloke at a desk. I enjoyed the Star Trek one where they filmed them standing on a mirror with a wind machine to emulate a fall from the sky. Cheap and it worked (fooled me anyway).

There's a VFX supervisor called John Van Vliet in America who's been doing cartoons about the business for years. I wish more of them were online;

[Ben the Obiwomble]

Love that second cartoon!

[jamon g]

turkish superman. 'nuff said.

[Christian U]

Great articles. With the one with the worst jobs, the matchmove artist was my favourite. The specifal-effects-that-are-not-CGI was also fun; I knew about the Lord of the Rings' use of forced perspective - it was on the first movie's extended version DVD, and I was totally blown away by it. But the Terminator thing is even cooler, especially that they could do it like that because Linda Hamilton has a twin sister!

[Todd Gross]

Nowadays, this would have been CGI:

The list missed the classic example of the X-Wing engines in Star Wars: The sound guy went to an air force base (so the story goes) to record jets taking off. They sounded wrong, but the air conditioner in his motel room sounded just right...

In an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that dealt a living spaceship (think Moya from Farscape) they were trying to make contact with, the sounds of the alien ship were actually the growls and rumbles of someone's hungry stomach.

Great articles. With the one with the worst jobs, the matchmove artist was my favourite. The specifal-effects-that-are-not-CGI was also fun; I knew about the Lord of the Rings' use of forced perspective - it was on the first movie's extended version DVD, and I was totally blown away by it. But the Terminator thing is even cooler, especially that they could do it like that because Linda Hamilton has a twin sister!

There is a story Arnold told that when he saw Linda on set one day, he ran up behind her and gave her an "extra-friendly" bear hug from the back.

Turns out, that was Linda's sister...

Awkward!