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22 hours ago · What [visual effects artist] Dennis Muren would almost always say was, “Do the unexpected trick.” Like, if you can get a component practically—one that people think that you would have had ...
Jun 17, 2024 · What began as Raiders of the Stone Ring (a title dreamt up long before another film called Raiders that Dennis Muren would work on), an Edgar Rice Burroughs/Conan Doyle/Jules Verne homage about a WW1-era Zeppelin drifting into a lost Arctic colony of dinosaurs, lost Vikings and lizard-men evolved.
1 day ago · Of Dennis Muren's eight Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects, three of them were consecutive wins (under different names); E.T. The Extra Terrestrial in 1982, Return of the Jedi in 1983, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984.
Jun 23, 2024 · The visual effects supervisor, Dennis Muren, has explained the technique before. “The way things had been up till that time, if a character had to change at some way from a dog into a person or something like that it could be done with a series of mechanical props.
2 days ago · Jurassic Park's disgruntled lead computer programmer, Dennis Nedry, was previously bribed by Lewis Dodgson, a man working for Hammond's corporate rival, to steal frozen dinosaur embryos. He deactivates the park's security system to access the embryo storage room and stores them inside a container disguised as a Barbasol shaving cream can.
4 days ago · Dennis Muren served as the visual effects supervisor on Ghostbusters II. As with his work on Ghostbusters, Reitman had little interest in the technical side of his film. For the sequel, he employed special effects studio Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), giving them a rough outline of the plot and the freedom to do as they wanted.
3 days ago · Introduction. The crafts of Visual & Special Effects have been fundamentally transformed by the science fiction genre. This page aims to introduce people to the artists and work behind the futuristic imagery and extensions of reality, both physical and digital, that make up the their favorite universes.
