What older movies made a good use of either side stepping special effects or have effects that somehow still hold up today? Why are they good movies?

  • Chozo@fedia.io
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    7 days ago

    The wild part about it is that this technique required a very specific prism in the camera in order to work properly, and the tech behind it was completely lost to time and nobody else knew how to make that work, which is why we’ve primarily had blue/green screens with chunky matte lines ever since. The guys at Corridor Digital managed to recreate the effect pretty authentically, and it’s awesome to see the results of their work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDk

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      7 days ago

      I have a really tough time believing that for decades people couldn’t figure out how to do this and so sufferer with chromakeying on hundred, 200+ million dollar blockbustere