15 Movie Visual Effects That Were Done In A Left Field Way

Filming Ghostbusters sounds like it was a feat of endurance for Sigourney Weaver.
15 Movie Visual Effects That Were Done In A Left Field Way
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We are utterly enthralled by all sorts of magic. Street magic, christmas magic, straight up wizarding magic. But our favorite kind of magic? Movie magic. We’re talking about that silver screen baby! Nothing beats it. Though, if you ask us, alot of the newer special effects technology has actually ruined some of it for us. We may be simple, but we love tiny men in big suits.

We wanted to do a deep dive into visual effects that were achieved in a way you might not expect. You know the Ghostbusters scene where Dana spins around? Turns out, they didn’t use any optical or CGI trickery for that at all. Frankly, we couldn’t believe the kind of tricks they pulled to create the dragons in Game of Thrones. Don’t even get us started on the real deal with Baby Yoda (yes, yes, we know about the whole egg eating controversy…)  

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Dragons

For Game of Thrones season 7, they physically built a dragon's back. For the scene in the episode Beyond the Wall where a few men climb on Drogon, they made Drogon's whole back out of polystyrene. CRACKED.COM

Season 7 of GoT was a total disaster, but at least it looked great, apparently thanks to some practical effects.

Source: IndieWire

The Mandalorian

During most of The Mandalorian, Baby Yoda was a physical puppet. They had just built a puppet as a reference for actors, but they ended up using it in final shots of most of the time rather than put in a CG Baby Yoda. CRACKED.COM

Honestly, puppets are often way more realistic in some ways than CGI. 

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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