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How’d They Do That?
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How They Made the Glowing Costumes in the Original ‘Tron’
As Flynn says, on the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy.
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How They Make Fake Snow for Movies
There’s snow business like show business.
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How They Shot the “Bullet-Time” Effect in ‘The Matrix’
Turns out to “dodge this” you need roughly 120 cameras.
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How They Shot the Carriage Drag Stunt in John Ford’s ‘Stagecoach’
Hay is for horses. Internal organs are for cowards.
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How They Shot the Bee Scenes in ‘Candyman’
Here’s the story of how the filmmakers wrangled 200,000 very real honeybees.
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How They Filmed the Café Dolly Shot in ‘Wings’
No, there wasn’t a buzzsaw attached to the camera. But that’s a free idea if anyone wants it…
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How They Shot the Breathable Fluid Scenes in ‘The Abyss’
If you think it’s CGI … don’t hold your breath. Or, wait, maybe do.
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How They Shot the No Parachute Skydiving Scene in ‘Point Break’
“Johnny, you’re about to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. How do you feel about that?”
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How the Special Effect of “Go Motion” Works
The things we do for motion blur.
