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Step by Step: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Models, miniatures, and matte paintings were the main stock-in-trade of Industrial Light & Magic back when director Steven Spielberg and writer-producer George Lucas launched the Indiana Jones franchise with 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark. In the 27 years since then, 3D CGI, camera tracking, and digital compositing are among the techniques that have transformed visual effects in general and the art of matte painting in particular. So when ILM tackled the effects for the new Paramount/Lucasfilm release Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Digital Matte Artist Brett Northcutt was able to ...

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