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May 1988 |
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To produce a wildly offbeat
supernatural comedy with wall-to-wall effects and limited funding,
Beetlejuice
director Tim
Burton turned to first-time visual effects supervisor Alan
Munro who assembled a choice team of cost-conscious independents
willing and able to conjure up hundreds of effects shots for
a very small portion of the film's $14 million budget. In charge
of creature creation and makeup illusions was principal effects contractor
Robert Short;
providing opticals and miniature support was Peter
Kuran of Visual
Concept Engineering; and tasked with enlivening three highly specialized
animation sequences were
Doug
Beswick, Ted Rae and Tim Lawrence. Together they assembled
the fanciful imagery that helped make Beetlejuice the first big
hit of the summer season. Article by Jody Duncan Shannon |
When Amblin Entertainment
brought Batteries Not Included to Industrial
Light & Magic, visual effects supervisor Bruce
Nicholson found the prospect of creating a family of pint-size anthropomorphic
flying saucers both intriguing and challenging. Principal among the
challenges was the need to create ships that could be photographed in real
time on live-action sets and also in bluescreen environments under motion
control. Most importantly, the imagery produced through employment
of these two techniques had to be stylistically indistinguishable even
when cut together end to end. Developed to support the effort was
a sophisticated new wire rig and a winning array of flying machines brought
to life via overhead wires, motion control, rod puppetry, stop-motion animation
and go-motion. Article by Richard Linton |
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