From the land of Geek
by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments💰 Links may earn commission
You don’t need the volume up to watch this but you’d miss out on the dramatic music. Jim Casey’s put together a three minute tour of visual effects. We start with the early work in the cinema and then scale upwards with increasingly impressive effects. The outcome? We get to today where special effects are taken for granted.
What do you think the most impressive visual effect you’ve ever seen on TV or cinema was?
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Very much a whirlwind tour, ouch. I would love to see a less whirl-windy compilation of some of the most seminal SFX moments in movie history, so I can actually have a moment to admire them.
larsrc That’s a great idea for a video. I have to wonder whether there’s one out there and shall have a look when I next have a few minute. It occurs to me also that that’s exactly the sort of thing that universities might have published.
In the meantime the series that comes to mind is http://everythingisaremix.info/.