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The famous mirror shot in ‘Contact’ was almost something else entirely

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Full liquid metal, now in 3D: re-visiting the freakin’ T-1000 walking out of the fiery truck crash
Full liquid metal, now in 3D: re-visiting the freakin’ T-1000 walking out of the fiery truck crash

Retro VFX: Dante’s Peak

The race to finish Dante’s Peak...20 years ago

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You’re a wonderful human being: re-visiting CG Jabba 20 years later

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Behind the ILM Mars Attacks! tests that convinced Tim Burton to go CG

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It’s been 20 years since ‘Twister’ brought us that flying cow

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Dragonslayer

Inverse asked me to explore the history of dragons in vfx, so I went from stop motion to CG in this retrospective.

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Posted on August 12, 2016Author Ian FailesTags Inverse

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