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June 7, 2024 Daniel Rennie Off Home, James Bond, Special Effects, Stunt Work,

Learn the planning, staging, and filming of Licence to Kill's truck chase and how Kenworth...

May 15, 2024 Daniel Rennie Off James Bond, Practical Effects, Special Effects, Stunt Work,

Learn the entire process behind the BMW R1200C motorcycle chase from director Roger Spottiswoode and...

April 8, 2024 Daniel Rennie Off Home, James Bond, Special Effects,

In Skyfall, villain Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem) derails a London Tube train, which James Bond...

December 2, 2022 Daniel Rennie Off Editing, Home, Special Effects,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoQwKe0lggw The third James Bond film, Goldfinger, turned agent 007 into a global phenomenon. His...

July 17, 2022 Daniel Rennie Off Home, James Bond, Special Effects, VFX,

The standout action sequence in The Living Daylights involves a Lockheed Hercules C-130 cargo plane...

July 16, 2022 Daniel Rennie Off Featured, Home, James Bond, Special Effects, Stunt Work, VFX,

After being dropped from Moonraker, the Acrostar BD-5J microjet made a big impression in Octopussy. Learn how stunt...

December 7, 2020 Daniel Rennie Off Effects, Home, Special Effects,

ILM revolutionized the blue screen process in the 1980s. And its most important developments were...

September 11, 2020 Daniel Rennie Off Effects, Home, Special Effects,

ILM announces new StageCraft LED volume services. According to the press release, these new stages...

July 17, 2020 Daniel Rennie Off Director's Chair, Effects, Featured, Filmmaking, Home, Special Effects,

James Cameron's road to The Terminator involves designing "a mother-ship with breasts," electrocuting worms, directing...

June 8, 2020 Daniel Rennie Off Effects, Special Effects, VFX,

The answer is yes. There is a difference between using blue screen vs. green screen....

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Category: Special Effects

The Stunts & Pyrotechnics of Licence To Kill’s Truck Chase

Tomorrow Never Dies: The Making of the BMW Motorcycle Chase

Chris Corbould: Engineering Skyfall’s Underground Tube Train Crash

Goldfinger’s Laser: How Movie Serials Influenced Bond’s Near Castration–And Why It Replaced Dissection By Buzzsaw in Ian Fleming’s Novel

‘The Living Daylights’: Old School Miniature Effects Helped Give The Hercules Cargo Plane Sequence An Epic Scale

Octopussy’s Flight Risk: The Full Story Behind the Acrostar BD-5J Microjet And The Coolest James Bond Opener Ever

Cinematographer Mark Vargo Breaks Down The Blue Screen Process Used On ‘The Empire Strikes Back’

ILM Press Release: New StageCraft Stages Coming To New York, London, And Australia

How James Cameron’s Big Break Working For Roger Corman Led To ‘The Terminator’

Blue Screen Vs. Green Screen: Is There Any Real Difference?