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Step by Step: Watchmen

Phantasmagorical effects abound in Warner Bros.’ Watchmen, which isn’t surprising given its origin as a graphic novel about superheroes. But alongside the film’s otherworldly visual effects, Director Zack Snyder employed effects to recreate—with notable twists—famed events in history. Among the milestones depicted in Watchmen is the 1963 shooting of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. For this, the film’s Visual Effects Supervisor John “D.J.” Des Jardin called upon CIS Hollywood. “Zack wanted to recreate iconic moments and show how they’d be slightly different in a parallel world inhabited by superheroes,” says Bryan Hirota, visual-effects supervisor ...

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