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Indiana Jones and the Digital FX

By Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter

May 28, 2008, 04:18

Indiana Jones' return to the big screen after 19 years underscored how much visual effects have evolved.

When the first three Indy films were made in the 1980s, the visual effects were done optically. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull marks the first time sophisticated digital techniques were used in bringing the story of the archaeologist-adventurer to life.

"There were many challenges," visual effects supervisor Pablo Helman said. "One was working on a movie that had so many fans and coming up with work that matched the other movies. That was something Steven Spielberg wanted from the beginning."

To accomplish this, Helman and lead visual effects house Industrial Light + Magic, which also created the effects for the first three Indiana Jones films, used a wide variety of effects. "We used a lot of techniques, not just the computer," he said. "It's a combination of things that make the scenes believable. The idea was to be on location as much as possible and then augment (with visual effects) to finish telling the story. ... We always started with principal photography, then we had miniatures, computer-generated elements, practical elements."

The chase in the jungle is an example of how the digital tools were used.

Click www.hollywoodreporter.com for the whole story.


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