Before you go on a rant about the over - enjoyment of visual effects destroy the film and TV industriousness , watch thisbehind - the - aspect partitioning of HBO ’s Big Little Lies . Computer art and digital compositing have actually become so rife as a filmmaking tool that your eyes likely do n’t realize they ’re being fooled 90 percent of the time .
There are for sure a few films that apparently only exist to serve as a demonstration Scottish reel for large visual effects studios ; Twister , DragonHeart , and every single one of the Transformers movies come to mind . But you ’ll be hard - pressed to find a individual show on boob tube , even dramas like Big Little Lies , that do n’t take advantage of forward-looking VFX techniques in some way .
As ocular effect supervisory program Marc Côté explains , shoot player on a greenscreen , and then swapping out the background knowledge so it looks like they ’re on an oceanside cafe in Monterey Bay , is not only cheaper than filming on placement , it also ensure the weather never complicate things , and the Sunday never disappears behind a cloud . It also makes stuntwork a great deal well-heeled , and a lot dependable , when you’re able to dangle in front of a large green pillow , instead of the edge of a cliff .

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