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dean-winchesters-clit · 4 months

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Gods, can I gush about the CGI in the Percy Jackson show for just a minute??

All of it is so fucking good!

The work was gone by ILM or Industrial Light and Magic, who are an incredible effects house and also one of the oldest effects houses there is. ILM was founded in the 1970s by George fucking Lucas to make the effects for the original Star Wars trilogy. They are the reason the original Jurassic Park had CGI in the first place! They worked with Jim Henson on The Dark Crystal and Tobe Hooper on Poltergeist, which has sone crazy awesome effects if you've never seen it. A part of ILM broke off in the 1990s and became fucking PIXAR!!

And Percy Jackson has had just the best looking effects I've seen in a long time. The creature work alone is worth so many awards. The minotaur was amazing.

And the illusion of Chiron is never broken, it's just seamless and perfect.

And don't get me started on Medusa's snakes. They're PERFECT. THEY ACT LIKE REAL SNAKES!!!

And the chimera was beautiful. I loved the decision to give it a cobra's frill.

Also, water is a notoriously difficult effect to do and all the water looks amazing in this show. I bet they pulled some people from the Avatar sequel to help with it.

And Grover's legs never look bad. They're always perfect. I love the decision to keep them exposed the whole time, it adds to the magical feeling of the world while also showcasing how powerful the Mist really is.

And one of my favorite effects HAS to be the way Mrs. Dodds' coat turned into her wings. I saw that and had an out of body experience.

But this most recent episode just blew me away. Specifically with this (these next gifs are by @stevenrogered) :

So, if you didn't know, tracking an effect onto someone's body is incredibly difficult. It's so difficult that CGI artists will often replace someone's body with a 3D model in order to make it easier. That could be what happens here in part, but they can't fake Walker's face.

Props to Walker for sitting as still as humanly possible during this incredibly emotional scene. Him sitting still helps make the tracking of the effect easier since the artists don't have to adjust the effect every frame to account for the slightest movements. Which brings me to the face.

It is so hard to animate human faces and not fall into the uncanny valley, and yes this effect applies to that. Look at the way the gold conforms to the shape of his mouth as he speaks. Look at how it follows the movement of his chin, his cheeks. It's PERFECT. This is an incredibly impressive effect and I wanna just worship whichever overworked and underpaid VFX artist spent hours of their life working on it.

Okay, that's all, rants over, everyone go home!

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atomic-chronoscaph · 2 months

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Dragonslayer (1981)

#dragonslayer gif #ralph richardson #vermithrax pejorative #80s fantasy movies #dragons #ulrich of cragganmore #walt disney productions #matthew robbins #hal barwood #phil tippett #ILM #special effects #1980s #1981 #gif #chronoscaph gif

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frakyeahbattlestargalactica · 8 months

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#viper #spaceship #bsg #battlestar galactica #ILM #industrial light and magic #special effects #models #model making #behind the scenes #tv #science fiction #starship #Star fighter

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brokehorrorfan · 6 days

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You are now authorized to use physical force on Tonyk's plush toy of ED-209 from RoboCop. Priced at $39.99, it stands 12" tall

#robocop #ed 209 #paul verhoeven #phil tippett #industrial light and magic #ilm #peter weller #alex murphy #robocop 2 #robocop 3 #toynk #toy #gift #80s movies #1980s movies

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liteee · 1 year

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Long day

#liteeart #0614 #june 2022 #furry #puzzles and dragons #ilm #ilmina #wanted to draw them for a long time :')

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megmahoneyart · 19 days

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HAD to doodle this after reading the most recent chapter of New Dawn Fades. The chapter? Dynamic! Tragic! the rest of Legion waking up at the end? Prime Comedy.

Frank wakes up baffled beyond all reason, to Joey crying to some random survivor, cradling his face, and saying he'll run away with this dude to somewhere Frank's never heard of--all with ZERO CONTEXT

Suzie wakes up with limited context to try to stop carnage

Julie wakes up with Absolutely Zero Context, wasn't awake for the Joey/Quentin conversation, no idea why Frank's mad or why Suzie is trying to stop him, to see that people are fighting for the body (Illegal), Joey is cradling some bleeding randomly and apologizing, and the Entity is cracking the ground and screeching at them

Julie wins the price for most utterly confused person in the chapter. A+ you should totally be reading this

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this-is-cool · 11 months

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The superb Star Wars and sci-fi themed movie concept artworks of Brett Northcutt - https://www.this-is-cool.co.uk/the-superb-sci-fi-movie-concept-art-of-brett-northcutt/

#Brett Northcutt #star wars art #star wars #star wars concept art #sci-fi art #science fiction art #sci-fi artist #concept art #concept artist #ILM #this-is-cool #scififantasyhorror #sci-fi movie art #digital art #digital artist

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machetelanding · 1 year

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#george lucas #star wars #movie props #special effects #miniatures #science fiction #fantasy #movies #hollywood #filmmaking #industrial light and magic #ilm #1980s

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weirdlandtv · 2 years

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Matte (/composite) shots by ILM for:

RETURN OF THE JEDI (cut scene—Luke in his cave, constructing his lightsabre); RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (warehouse); THE EWOK ADVENTURE (3-5); and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (Cloud City). I think these were done by Chris Evans and Michael Pangrazio.

#star wars #vfx #matte #matte paintings #movies #films #indiana jones #starwars #visual effects #ilm #vintage

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theinkgirl · 25 days

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it’s never not going to be funny to me that the author of In Living Memory took a look at the canon character “Meg Thomas” and, having two siblings called “Meg” and “Thomas” just made ILM’s Meg Thomas’s personality literally be a fusion of her siblings A+

#and then meg thomas is one of the most relatable characters in ILM #In Living Memory #Dead By Daylight #ILM #DBD #ziracona #In Living Memory Extended Multiverse #because Meg’s characterization stays the same

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alhamdulillah10 · 3 months

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Sufyān ath-Thawrī said:

“Whoever is stingy with his knowledge will be tested with one of three things:

1) He will forget and be unable to memorise

2) He will not benefit from it

3) He will find himself losing his books.”

— The Manners of the Knowledge Seeker (page 67)

#islam #sunnah #allah #hadith #islamquotes #revert islam #islamic #islampost #quranquotes #islamdaily #ilm #islamic knowledge

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artbookisland · 5 months

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I've started reading this excellent book I bought recently for 10€ at a local book sale event.

As you can see on the cover, it's about the famous special effects company ILM and more precisely about their transition from practical to digital effects in the late 80s, early 90s.

The book contains a lot of interesting information about the making of very popular movies such as the Star Wars franchise, the Back to the Future series, Indiana Jones movies, etc.

If you're into that sort of things and can find this book, I recommend it without hesitation!

#ILM #cinema #special effects #book #CGI

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atomic-chronoscaph · 1 year

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Dragonslayer (1981)

#dragonslayer gif #dragon gif #peter macnicol #vermithrax pejorative #80s fantasy movies #80s movies #matthew robbins #hal barwood #galen bradwarden #special effects #practical effects #brian johnson #chris walas #ILM #1980s #1981 #gif #chronoscaph gif

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grayrazor · 3 months

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ILM reused their "subspace shockwave" effect from The Undiscovered Country in the Star Wars: Special Edition and it started a trend of every weird space explosion having a computer generated ring come out.

Treasure Planet went above and beyond, with a whole beautiful wedding cake of Praxis Rings.

All this despite ILM making a perfectly-serviceable realistically-spherical shock wave in Star Trek: Generations just a couple years after STVI:TUC.

#ilm #vfx #sfx #explosion #praxis ring #star trek vi: the undiscovered country #star wars episode iv: a new hope #stargate #armageddon #treasure planet #star trek generations #planar shockwave #and all this because the director of st6 wanted to homage the wave shot from the poseidon adventure

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brokehorrorfan · 9 months

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Spirit Halloween has released a life-size Mars Attacks martian warrior animatronic for $400. Standing 6.5' tall, it lights up, makes sounds, moves its head, and shoots mist from its gun.

#mars attacks #topps #tim burton #90s movies #1990s movies #spirit halloween #toy #gift #halloween #halloween decorations #halloween decor #mars attacks!#topps trading cards #jack nicholson #ilm

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stra-tek · 2 years

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The Akira-class U.S.S. Thunderchild CG model, as she appeared in the movie Star Trek: First Contact. Built by ILM. Despite looking fantastic on film, looking at the model close up reveals lots of 1990's CG crust.

The Akira-class would go on to be the inspiration for Enterprise NX-01, from Star Trek: Enterprise. Supposedly the producers wanted the Akira model used unchanged, and Doug Drexler and others had to plead to be permitted to build a new similar-but-different model with era-appropriate detailing (since ENT was set more than 200 years prior to FC)

#star trek #star trek ships #star trek first contact #starship design #cgi #star trek tech #ilm #the next generation #tng #nx 01

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