vfxblog
Was just turned onto this blog -
vfxblog.
They seek out people who are on the cutting edge of Visual Effects in Movies and Games, interview them and provide a bit of the story on how some things were done.
vfxblog was brought to my attention by a link from
Brian Weaver's October 14 entry regarding the spectacular
crash of Serenity towards the end of the film.
The interview is with Illusion Arts co-owner Bill Taylor and it turns out that the crash was actually a six-foot long scale model shot with a green-screen. CG was used to fill in the scenery and CG was used to tweak some events. The runway was built as a prop.
Dang -- that was good work by these people -- that ship had mass and heft.
Going up on the 'ole blogroll next time I update it.
Posted by DaveH at October 17, 2005 11:34 PM