Tim Prokop

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman The Making of a 50 Foot Woman Article by Tim Prokop From its humorously derivative opening logo to its campy postscript, the Home Box Office remake of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman was clearly an ode to old-style moviemaking. On a scant made-for-television budget, visual effects supervisor Gene Warren and his Fantasy II team members made mountains out of molehills with forced perspective miniatures, split-screen trickery and other vintage effects.

Apollo 13 Launching Apollo 13 Article by Tim Prokop Total verisimilitude was the prime directive for visual effects supervisor Rob Legato and his team at Digital Domain, and for special effects coordinator Matt Sweeney, when they signed on with director Ron Howard to bring Apollo 13 to the screen. Batman Forever Forever and a Knight Article by Mark Cotta Vaz With director Joel Schumacher at the helm, big changes were in store for Gotham and its denizens in Batman Forever.

Independence Day Fireworks Article by Tim Prokop To supply the staggering volume of effects required for Independence Day, director Roland Emmerich and producer Dean Devlin chose not to engage a major effects facility, electing instead to build an in-house miniatures and pyrotechnic unit, coupled with an independent digital effects unit, dedicated solely to the production.