Boardwalk Empire VFX

Using the green screen in movies

The gate

Game of Thrones SFX showreel

Boardwalk Empire visual effects

Bloody Ohama

A group of three people recreated D-Day in the Normandy by filming themselves over and over and then putting together the footage on a PC to look like hundreds of soldiers are storming the beach. Skip towards the end of the video to see most of the footage, which doesn't look bad at all.

Blame It On The Voices: Recreating D-Day with 3 people

Special effects revealed

Be ready to feel really disillusioned after watching this: this studio show reel shows what's really behind the visuals in many popular TV series you surely know like 24 or Heroes. Usually it's a big green screen.

Star Wars computer animations

Designer Larry Cuba explains how he made the simulation of the Death Star and the trench fly-through in the mission briefing scene in the original Star Wars movie. This being 1976, the approach to create the computer-animated images is quite impressive. I'm especially fond of his workdesk with the 10 dials used to rotate and position the elements, looks like a really straightforward method to manipulate those items on a screen (as compared to a mouse).

VOTD: Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars | /Film