Tag: Ken Ralston
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Head stretching and stomach holes: re-visiting the visual effects of ‘Death Becomes Her’
“Bob had said to Meryl Streep: ‘Whatever Ken asks you to do, no matter how silly, just go with it. You can trust him.’ Because she must have been thinking, ‘What am I? What is this stupid thing?’ – Death Becomes Her visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston. By the early 1990s, ILM had already been…
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The famous mirror shot in ‘Contact’ was almost something else entirely
Visual effects artists and aficionados are often asked which movie or shot was their biggest influence, a question that regularly evokes a response about films like Star Wars, Blade Runner or Jurassic Park. Those films, of course, are all milestones in the VFX world. But in recent years, if that kind of question has come up…
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