Buried underneath a barrage of ‘For Your Consideration’ pop ups, Variety posted a really good article about the relationship between practical effects, and visual effects. For some reason though they seem surprised that the two get along as well as they do. Is this still really news to everybody out there? Eh, anyways. It’s a good article non the less, and I’m leaving the studio while the sun is still up. So I’m happy, ha. Night everyone…

LINK: In f/x, practical aids digital

Sometimes the real-life suit looked great, says Snow, and even when it had to be replaced with CG, “It gave us something to hold ourselves to,” most importantly because the cinematographer had lit the suit, so the digital lighters knew how he wanted it to look.