Midgets, trolls, and 2 headed dragons oh my.
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I liked the way they worked in the whole "trolls under bridges" angle
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i got to this video by searching two headed midget
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Best scene. Those trolls r scary!
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@VHDT10 Direct quote from Harry Walton from an interview from Famous Monsters of Filmland.
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@VHDT10 On Willow ILM used blue-screen compositing for scenes where Val Kilmer’s character fights a two-headed dragon. Dennis Muren allowed a small team of us to try to get some of those shots using the Dynamation method. It worked – we got each of our shots done in five days, versus four weeks for each composite in the optical department — and George Lucas was happy. We used 35mm VistaVision plates and composited down to 4 perf 35mm format using anamorphic lenses.
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@VHDT10 Well, some of it is stop-motion. Harry Walton did the effects for the two-headed dragon
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@AtorTheFlyingEagle The Hydra is in stop motion. 30 frames per second. One of the best stop motion effects I've ever seen.
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5:46
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Won't let me post a link.
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@bud389 I don't what you mean by "true". If you mean the dominant tool used to create visual effects in movies, then yes, CGI was the norm by the early 90's. But CGI had been used in films for a couple of decades prior. Here is a timeline of movies utilizing CGI
Two headed dragon? More like Siamese Rancor
thewatcher580 8 months ago 4
definitely one of the best fantasy movies ever made! imo. willow forever!
skullguise 2 years ago 4