Zes mind blowing special effecten die niet CGI zijn

RDJ134 14 juni 2012 om 18:05 uur

Terwijl de meest prachtige special effecten tegenwoordig gewoon even uit een computer worden getrokken, zijn er ook nog een aantal film makers die hier geen gebruik van maken of maakte. Want op deze lijst van Cracked.com staan zes mind blowing special effecten die geen CGI zijn, en ik kan je nu al zeggen dat je een paar WTF?? momentjes gaat krijgen.


#3. 2001: A Space Odyssey -- Zero Gravity and Trippy Effects

You probably know that Stanley Kubrick's 2001 was made in an era where CGI as we know it didn't really exist, but you're not conscious of it when you watch the movie. You take it for granted that, for instance, a zero-gravity scene could be done pretty easily. And it could -- you just computerize that shit. But in 1968?

The movie's effects are good enough that you don't think of them as effects at all. And what Kubrick didn't have in technology, he made up for with cleverness and trickery.

For example, the classic scene with the astronaut taking a zero-gravity jog around the spaceship in one continuous shot was made possible not through postproduction effects, but thanks to what was basically a giant hamster wheel:

This massive centrifuge set would rotate while the camera remained fixed in one position, giving the appearance that the actors were defying gravity. And speaking of which, what about the famous shot of the pen floating inside the Pan-Am shuttle? It looks so real that most of us never even questioned how Kubrick did it.

The same effect that today would cost thousands of dollars in CG was created with one pen, a large sheet of glass and a piece of two-sided tape. That's it. They put the glass on a frame and rotated it slowly in front of the camera. When the flight attendant goes to pluck it out of the air, it was just a matter of unsticking it from the glass.

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