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These are the
best movies with special effects that mix computer geometry generated
objects with human actors and real scenes. Click on a title or
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The Lord of the Rings:
The Two Towers
CG Studio: WETA Digital |
The Two Towers has massive swarming battle scenes, such as the Battle
of Helm's Deep, with thousands of attackers and defenders. It used intelligent
software agents to individually control each specific CG model character in a
geometrically modeled
battlefield (see their official website for details).
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The Lord of the Rings:
The Fellowship of the Ring
CG Studio: WETA Digital
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The
Fellowship of the Ring used CG geometric modeling to create thousands of warring Orcs, a Cave Troll, a fiery Balrog,
digital doubles, the Mines of Moria, and other spectacular effects.
See:
Official Movie Website
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Spider-Man
CG Studio: Imageworks /Sony |
The
effects team modeled around 40 "hero buildings" to give a
digital Spider-Man a virtual environment filled with realistic skyscrapers
in which to perform his superhero stunts. Then, the real trick was
making his web-swinging between the virtual buildings appear believable.
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Star Wars II:
Attack of the Clones
CG Studio: ILM |
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Wars II had CG armies of clones as well as a digital Yoda and other CG
characters for whom the animation of their clothing reached a new level of
CG realism. There were also many all-CG virtual environments,
including the droid factory and the battlefield.
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Stuart Little 2
CG Studio: Imageworks /Sony
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Stuart was the first photorealistic CG star in a live-action film, and
this is his improved second appearance.
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Jurassic Park III
CG Studio: ILM
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The Grinch
CG Studio: Digital Domain
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Used
CG landscapes and set extensions for the live-action film. It had a CG
sleigh rocketing down a CG mountain, and Who-ville was populated with digital
Who's.
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Hollow Man
CG Studio: Imageworks /Sony
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Used a
CG clone of Kevin Bacon and caused its skin, muscles, organs, and bones to
erode, layer-by-layer, as the hollow man becomes invisible. An
incredible illusion.
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Star Wars I:
The Phantom Menace
CG Studio: ILM
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Star
Wars I has numerous CG visual effects, many of which include CG main
characters such as Jar Jar Binks and Boss Nass.
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Stuart Little
CG Studio: Imageworks /Sony
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Stuart
was the first photorealistic CG star in a live-action film.
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Godzilla
CG Studio: Centropolis
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is a massive amount of detail in this 3D CG animated monster.
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Titanic
CG Studio: Digital Domain
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Broke
new ground by putting thousands of digital people, animated with the help
of motion capture, onboard the CG ship. It also used CG set extensions and
had digital water.
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The Fifth Element
CG Studio: Digital Domain
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Although the background is a miniature set, the cars are CG geometric
models.
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Starship
Troopers
CG Studio: Tippett Studios
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Used
CG to create crowds of huge, evil, alien bugs, with a custom "Bug Input
Device" allowing puppeteers to animate the 3D warrior bugs in real time.
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Twister
CG Studio: ILM
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Used
controllable, rotating funnels of particles, and a special-purpose
particle renderer, to create the twister.
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Casper [VHS only]
CG Studio: ILM
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Casper
was the first 3D computer graphics lead character in a live-action film. |
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(1993) |
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Jurassic Park
JP2: The Lost World
CG Studio: ILM
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The
first realistic CG dinosaurs as well as animatronics. Full-size
CG dinosaurs move freely in background plates.
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(1992) |
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The Lawnmower
Man
CG Studio: Angel Studios
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Applied state-of-the-art techniques to create virtual reality scenes using motion
capture, particle systems, algorithmic-based paint, etc. |
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(1991) |
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Terminator 2:
Judgment Day
CG Studio: ILM
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T2
used CG to model, animate, render, and morph the liquid-metal,
shape-shifting T-1000 character. |
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(1984) |
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The Last Starfighter
CG Studio: Digital Productions
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First
use of CG spaceships, planets, and high-tech gear realistically integrated
into live-action scenes. |
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(1982) |
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Tron
CG Studio: Disney
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The first full-length film using computer graphics as an integral
part of the film. Now considered camp, but still lots of fun.
The graphics were all done with wire-frame rendering, and the live actors are
decorated with lights to make them fit in the graphics theme of being
inside the computer. Also, the wire-frame Master Control Program (MCP)
face was the first animated 3D graphics supporting character in a live
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