CHAPTER 7
Mechanical Effects: A Practical Guide
CLARIFICATION
In Chapter 1, a distinction was drawn between the production designer and the art director in terms of definition, function, and areas of overlap. Within the world of effects, distinctions must also be made. As you might already imagine, visual effects are vastly different from special effects. The former is created on a computer screen, the latter happens in the physical world. Still, these terms are used interchangeably in error. Like the term art director, “special effects” has been a term used throughout the twentieth century as a catchall phrase to explain that “Hollywood trick photography,” defining the elusive magic of the movies. There is nothing tricky or facile about it; ...
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