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September 30th, 2008

Wired: The Visual Effects of Iron Man

A seven-part "making-of" documentary featuring Jon Favreau, visual effects supervisor John Nelson, Embassy VFS supervisor Winston Helgason, 3D artist Paul Copeland, lead 3D artist Michael Blackburn, Orphanage VFX supervisor Jonathan Rothbart, visualization/HUD effects supervisor Kent Seki, HUD design supervisor Dav Rauch, ILM VFX supervisor Ben Snow, animation director Hal Hickel, view painter Ron Woodall, model supervisor Bruce Holcomb, VFX art director Aaron McBride, composing supervisor Jeff Sutherland, and technical director Philippe Rebours. It visits the three effects studios that handled Iron Man - The Embassy, The Orphanage, and ILM - and examines what each one did for the film. It goes through the appropriate effects topics in a solid manner that gives us a good idea of the challenges and their solutions.

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