You Never Knew How Much CGI These Shows and Movies Really Used

Star Wars

When George Lucas's Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was in production, CGI didn't exist yet. Instead, the Industrial Light & Magic VFX team—the same company who worked on The Irishman decades later—pioneered animation techniques using detailed miniature models filmed close-up. However, the film served to pave the way for the future of CGI.

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The More You Know

  • Each frame of the CGI scenes in James Cameron’s, Avatar (1/24 of a second) took an average of 47 hours to render.
  • Keanu Reeves used his profit from The Matrix to buy a motorcycle for all of the movie's stuntmen.
  • Jim Caviezel was struck by lightening while he was on the cross in, Passion of the Christ.
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first American film to have a soundtrack.
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