10 Movies That Pushed VFX to a New Level


Filming has advanced and the visual effects (VFX) vary in each production. This could be seen in the rigging, animation, lighting and shading, modelling and texturing, composting, particle and dynamics. All these can determine how top notch your film will be and its reception by viewers. Here are 10 movies that pushed VFX to a new level:

1. The Matrix
Motion pictures takes effect in this movie. Neo, whose real name is Keanu Reeves, escapes severally being hit by bullets through means of an agent. This happens while the camera moves in circles. This is a lift to the fighting tactics in this movie that has changed choreography largely.

2. Jurassic Park
The combination of making synthetic animals appear to be breathing and alive in this action movie. The idea of blending naturalism and reality came out perfectly. Visit here to know more.


3. Avatar
Characters in this fiction film are computer generated yet photorealistic. The film’s release was in stereoscopic 3D that had never been tested.

4. Interstellar
Interstellar brings alien worlds into reality. The black hole Gargantua depicts accuracy in mathematics and brings out the difference between it and a worm hole through the lighting effects and getting the right diameter, spin and mass. Here, fiction blends with reality to get viewers moved.


5. Casper
Casper is one of kid’s favourite films and has the CG characters interacting with real human actors. The protagonist featuring in the movie is totally generated by a computer.

6. Toy Story
Another kid’s movie, it is one of a kind and has in it a non-robot who is a non-killer cowboy. It is a CGI feature animated film.


7. Inception
Aesthetics in this movie are of the art house style. The Parisian apartment blocks have look realistic in as much as they are photo models. They are seen to be flooded with people and cars which in real are as a result of the intricate effect. The camera moves are epic and can hide some buildings behind shapes.

8. Gravity
Full of emotions, Gravity, Sandra’s spacesuit has been digitally animated to match her facial performance. It takes into consideration CG in most of its parts especially the earth as a whole, the international space station, the Hubble telescope and the space shuttles.


9. Terminator 2
Terminator 2 has the entire movie’s effects digitized. It takes in to place composting and complex rendering. The environment was designed to match the characters.

10. Pacific Rim
When robots can save lives, it becomes interesting. Here, robots rescue humans from dangerous sea creatures. How the physique came about was tactfully planned. The adjustment of the shoulders and hips in the animations while observing them and checking how they appeared in every different pose to ensure the legs don’t look stumpy from any angle. Considering the length of the arms was vital to ensure proportionality was in to place in the entire film.



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