Special Effects: Creating Movie Magic

Special Effects: Creating Movie Magic
ISBN-10
0896594521
ISBN-13
9780896594524
Series
Special Effects
Category
Photography / General
Pages
252
Language
English
Published
1984
Publisher
Abbeville Press
Author
Christopher Finch

Description

This illustrated history of motion picture special effects discusses the techniques of animation, optical printing, deployment of mechanical models, computer graphics, and robotics in the films of de Mille, Disney, Hitchcock, Spielberg, Lucas, and others

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