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Step by Step: Hotel for Dogs

Murphy’s Law predicts that if anything can go wrong, it will go wrong. It’s often invoked by moviemakers, and one snafu really complicated the visual-effects assignment on the DreamWorks/Paramount hit comedy Hotel for Dogs. Before Director Thor Freudenthal could get a key shot that he wanted of the hotel itself, a fire on the famed Universal Studios back lot destroyed the practical set. Visual Effects Supervisor Ray McIntyre Jr., of Los Angeles-based Pixel Magic, was watching the evening news and recalls hearing of the event. “I definitely knew that the fire had changed ...

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