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VFX Questions About 2012 for Director Roland Emmerich Emmerich has done a lot of films with disasters and destruction, so he reveals how the disasters in the movie 2012 compare to some of his other films, from a visual-effects standpoint. |
Popular Mechanics November 13, 2009 Erin McCarthy |
The Anatomy of a Disaster Scene in the Movie 2012 More than 100 artists created 2012's 1300 visual-effects (VFX) shots, including volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, floods -- and a massive earthquake that rips California apart. |
Popular Mechanics January 2007 Tom Russo |
Movies 2.0: Digital Effects Magic Explained In today's digital Hollywood, cameras capture scenes in bits, not frames and computer wizards conjure up everything from impossible beasts to cliff-top battlegrounds. Film is dead. Long live the movies. |
Popular Mechanics January 2007 Erin McCarthy |
Top 10 F/X Scenes in Movie History Today, many digital effects are so subtle that movie audiences often don't notice them but it wasn't always this way. Industry insiders pinpoint the biggest breakthroughs in digital F/X history. |
Popular Mechanics December 19, 2008 Erik Sofge |
Top Ten F/X Scenes of 2008 The best visual effects scenes are not always found in the best movies. Here are our favorite F/X scenes of 2008, ranked from good to best. In a year of cinematic lemons, any lemonade is worth saluting. |
Smithsonian January 2007 Eric Jaffe |
Recasting Shakespeare's Stage Designing a Globe Theatre for the 21st century: Given only brief guidance and a few months to finish, architects created modern Globes that challenge conventional thoughts about dramatic performances and the spaces that accommodate them. |
Popular Mechanics November 25, 2009 Erin McCarthy |
Questions For John Hillcoat, Director of The Road The movie director has long been a fan of Cormac McCarthy's work and looked forward to bringing it to the screen. |
Popular Mechanics October 7, 2008 |
Watchmen Sneak Peek Reveals Snyder's Realistic Comic Ambition: First Look (With Gallery!) The extended, 25-minute Watchmen preview that's been garnering almost hysterical fanboy acclaim on the Web and and applause in the mainstream media leaves the movie's superheroes enhanced in all of Hollywood's finest CGI glory. |