Top FX Scenes in Movie History

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According to this months issue of Popular Mechanics, some of the best digital effects are so subtle that you have no idea. Looking back at history, they asked the movie experts to pinpoint the biggest FX breakthroughs.of all time.

Here’s a few of those…

1. STAR WARS (1977)
Motion-control photography, in which a computer is used to control a long, complex series of camera movements, made possible the spaceship battles in Star Wars. It would have taken too long to film the scenes manually, says Anne Thompson, deputy film editor at The Hollywood Reporter.

2. TRON (1982)
It wasn’t the first film to use computer-generated (CG) graphics (and many effects were hand-drawn) but the sci-fi video-game fantasy flick Tron was the first to use computer imagery to create a 3D world, making it one of the pioneering CGI films. “Effects people said, ‘Let’s see what the computer can do,’” says Harry Knowles, movie critic at Ain’t It Cool News.

3. TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991)
“Morphing” was first used in Willow (1988), but in T2 the effect was “jaw-dropping,” Knowles says. The liquid-metal robot’s humanoid texture, which was layered onto a CG model, looked frighteningly real.

4. CLIFFHANGER (1993)
Faux alpinist Sly Stallone was held up by wires that were later digitally removed. The ability to erase wires changed how stunts are done: Now stars and stuntmen can be put in real-world environments as well as in front of green screens.

Now go and check out the rest that made the list.

Popular Mechanics – Top 10 F/X Scenes in Movie History

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