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Author: TonyG

Jul 16th 2011 at 6:43:59 PM

* In the ''LordOfTheRings'' movies, a combination of ForcedPerspective, little people stand-ins and green-screen is used for the scenes where the Hobbits and Dwarves interact with regular-sized characters. They even built special sets that move along with the camera to help hide the force perspective shots, which typically require that the camera stay still.
* The effects team on ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' used a variety of different techniques to give the illusion that the {{Toon}}s are interacting with the live-action actors and props. When the lead weasel approaches Eddie at his office, the gun he's holding is on wires, but on the next scene it's on a mechanical arm. For the chase scene with Benny the Cab, Bob Hoskins was on a go-kart for full shots, sitting on a camera dolly for close-ups, on blue screen when Benny is elevated, and there's a handful of brief shots where Hoskins is ''animated''.
* ''JurassicPark'' alternates between full-scale animatronic dinosaurs and CGI. One shot of the {{T-Rex}} apporaching the stranded van begins with the animatronic head in the foreground, and as soon as it leaves the picture frame it switches to the computer-animated T-Rex walking towards the background.