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26 Movie Effects That Look Like CGI, But Aren't

Filmmaking seems to keep getting easier and easier. Seems like all a director has to do is throw an actor in front of a green screen, then turn over all the footage to the computer guys and have them add in all the movie stuff. Done!

So it's genuinely surprising to find out that a production team actually did their special effects the slow, painstaking way. And in some cases, spent what seems like way more time and effort than was actually needed. For example:

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The crew of First Man created an outdoor lunar surface set in a quarry. Complete with fake sunlight that gave them sunburn. Light bulbs that can re-cr

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26 Movie Effects That Look Like CGI, But Aren't

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Quentin Tarantino wanted to recreate the past for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. So his team rebuilt it, using miniatures. Tarantino's not a fan of CG

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The characters got thrown around in 2012. And SO did the actors. Not only did filmmakers create a sinking ship scene by rotating the whole set, they f

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You'd think Dejarik would be CG by The Force Awakens. It's not. It's still stop-action animation. The original props had deteriorated, though, SO spec

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Cabin In The Woods featured some truly frightening monsters. And they weren't CGI. Joss Whedon and director Drew Goddard decided they wanted a sequenc

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26 Movie Effects That Look Like CGI, But Aren't

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Charlie And The Chocolate Factory has nut-sorting squirrels. Those are real, live, trained squirrels. It took months to train the squirrels to sort nu

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Escape From New York showed a wireframe view of the city. AOSE VTEW And it was done with tape and a black light. The filmmakers wanted to create a hig

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26 Movie Effects That Look Like CGI, But Aren't

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In Evan Almighty, God asks Evan to build an ark. So the crew built a full-sized ark. The wooden monstrosity was constructed to be 250 feet long, 80 fe

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Remember how digital the original Tron looked? That was achieved with practical effects. It was 1982, and the CGI it would take to render the high-tec

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26 Movie Effects That Look Like CGI, But Aren't

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In 28 Days Later, Murphy wanders through a totally empty London. That wasn't a set. It was actually London. The filmmakers got the scene by shooting i

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26 Movie Effects That Look Like CGI, But Aren't

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The Lord of the Rings trilogy mixed hobbits, dwarves, and humans. With forced perspective. Making normal-sized actors look vastly different in size wa

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In Iron Man 3, several people get sucked out of Air Force One. The scene was shot in midair with skydivers. The travelers freefalling in midair are ac

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26 Movie Effects That Look Like CGI, But Aren't

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The raptors in Jurassic Park weren't CGI. Those were men in costumes. John Rosengrant was the main raptor suit performer. To make his movements convin

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26 Movie Effects That Look Like CGI, But Aren't

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26 Movie Effects That Look Like CGI, But Aren't

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2019 Dafoe vehicle The Lighthouse was shot, unsurprisingly, in a lighthouse. Not a real one. A full-sized fake built from scratch. It was 70 feet tall

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Remember the wormhole scene in Interstellar? That was a physical set. The Tesseract, an artificial construct that depicts time as a physical dimension

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26 Movie Effects That Look Like CGI, But Aren't

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Midsommar included a ull-smashing scene that took a few takes. POwH So the team created a self- imploding mechanical skull. The crew needed a solution

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Doctor Sleep takes us back to the Overlook hotel from Kubrick's The Shining. Literally. They rebuilt it using Stanley Kubrick's blueprints. Instead of

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