Description
Step inside the birth of movie cyberspace. 💾🎬
This behind-the-scenes documentary explores how Hollywood first visualized computers, the internet, and virtual reality on film - long before digital worlds became everyday reality. From the stylized cyberspace of Johnny Mnemonic to the real-time computer screens of The Net, and the deadly VR battlegrounds of Virtuosity, this episode captures a pivotal moment when practical effects, early CGI, and personal computers collided.
Discover how filmmakers and VFX artists used PC-based animation, motion graphics, digital compositing, laser scanning, and mechanical rigs to create believable cyber worlds - and how these films helped define our visual language for technology on screen.
Documentary series dealing with every aspect of special effects in movies, from low-budget make-up to multi-million-dollar computer-generated graphics. The clear presentation includes descriptions of the creation and technical problems of the effects, and interviews with effects technicians, directors, stars and other crew. Each episode deals with one topic, effect or technician (eg theme park rides, CGI, Stan Winston), concentrating on films from 1990s.