30 Practical Trivia Tidbits About Special Effects

Before A.I., you had to make your CGI by hand

Back before A.I. could generate hyper-realistic depictions of puppies playing in the snow for 10 seconds, or archaeologists dragging an amorphous lawn chair out of the sand, movies used to spend a lot of time and money on their special effects. Here are a few interesting tidbits about how they did things in the olden days…

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