Anyway, if anyone actually knows how they did these shots, I'd love to hear about it!
Anyway, if anyone actually knows how they did these shots, I'd love to hear about it!
Here’s something wholesome for you to give you a reprieve from the world mayhem…
Alex Boucher explores the mystery of how Muppets were realized outdoors. Pre-CGI, of course.
It’s a great analysis with some delightful clips of Jim Henson and his crew.
ICYMI:
How did Kermit ride a bicycle when his puppeteer was hidden? This #video takes a look at the brilliant practical effects that brought Muppets into real-world settings before #CGI existed.
From mirror illusions to radio-controlled mechanisms, each solution shows how creative constraints generate ingenious #innovations. Jim Henson even spent three hours in an aluminum canister underwater to film Kermit in his swamp.
How did Kermit ride a bicycle when his puppeteer was hidden? This #video takes a look at the brilliant practical effects that brought Muppets into real-world settings before #CGI existed.
From mirror illusions to radio-controlled mechanisms, each solution shows how creative constraints generate ingenious #innovations. Jim Henson even spent three hours in an aluminum canister underwater to film Kermit in his swamp.
Help me out, Fediverse hive mind.
1. Four camera angles on the same performance. No multiple takes.
2. Each camera angle has a different colored background
3. Videotaped in 1978, so green screen technology would not be this precise looking
How did they do a different colored back drop for each camera angle?
Did you know ? Here’s how the tornado effect was done in “The Wizard of Oz” #specialeffects #wizardofoz #tornado #reels #viral #greenscreen #1939 #movies
The first Jurassic Park still holds up.
I don't know if that means what they did was exceptionally well done (it was) or that so many new movies do shitty CGI (they are) but yeah.... Some of the skin textures could be a little more detailed, but fuck me, there's a reason that movie set the standard for CGI for 10 years to come.
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Movies have come a Long way since I was a kid ~ the special effects of Today are near perfection.
Here are a few high adventure/action movies of the 1950's/60's. In that era, we thought we were in special effects heaven.
out these classic films on YouTube & see for yourself, just how Far moviemaking has evolved.
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Happy birthday to the legendary Willis H O'Brien, special effects innovator who gave us the original 1930s King Kong, and inspired a young lad called Ray Harryhausen, who would grow up to create even more movie magic, to the delight of many of us. Alchemists of film.
Serves me right for chosing a badish xianxia, because _no one_ swims like that! _Buoyancy_ doesn't work like that! Not even in fantasy does _physics_ work like that!
I am Le Annoyed!
#SwordAndFairy (ep 9) #SubToot #CDrama #xianxia #SpecialEffects
Unity lays off hundreds of Weta Digital engineers as it pivots back to games - Enlarge / Kaboom! (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images)
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Special effects by Czech animator Karel Zeman. Score by Igor Savin.
Excerpt from a documentary about his work. (Hat tip: Dust to Digital.)