Draco strikes a sly pose in DRAGONHEART.

 
Cinefex  66
June 1996
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Dragonheart:
Heart and Soul

Producer Rafaella de Laurentiis had to wait five years for effects technology to catch up with the demands of her dream project. But with perseverance, director Rob Cohen and cutting-edge digital effects by Industrial Light & Magic, Dragonheart and its uniquely expressive talking dragon at last came wholly to life.

Article by Jody Duncan


 

Twister:
Riders on the Storm

Director  Jan De Bont realized that a dead-on depiction of tornadoes and the destruction they wreak was essential to Twister, his suspense thriller about daredevil storm-chasers. Enlisted to produce the integrated effects were physical effects supervisor John Frazier and the digital team at Industrial Light & Magic.

Article by Jonathan Luskin


 

James and the Giant Peach:
A Giant Peach in the Big Apple

To bring James and the Giant Peach, the classic Roald Dahl children's story, to the the screen through the medium of puppet animation, director Henry Selick orchestrated a massive two-year stop-motion effort augmented with digital contributions by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Buena Vista Visual Effects.

Article by Mark Cotta Vaz


 
 
Aftershocks: Return of the Worms
Flipper: Dolphin Doubles
Sgt. Bilko: Techno-Tank Trickery
White Squall: Stormy Weather
Gulliver's Travels: A Brobdingnagian Endeavor
Michael Fink: From Fine Arts to Filmmaking

 
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