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Baker gave foul-mouthed Granny a makeover, endowing her with more wrinkles and elongated but bouncy breasts. He also created an 8-ft.-tall hamster made monstrous by a bad batch of youth formula. Special-effects supervisor Jon Farhat put the Klumps together onscreen through digital magic--the same magic that enables Baker's giant hamster to attack a group of scientists with cannonball-size pellets...
...black, some white, converging on Jones. Frantically, they kicked and punched, inflicting more than 50 blows. "He was down on his stomach and was not fighting back," says witness Sherwood Fogle. "What he did was wrong, but he didn't deserve to get a beating like that." Finally a supervisor arrived on the scene, and the officers handcuffed Jones and led him away with his head in a choke hold. He is recovering in a hospital and will reportedly face 25 charges, including attempted murder, aggravated assault and carjacking...
...would be sexy to say 'Oh yes, he seemed strange,' or as every newspaper seems to find someone to say 'Oh, he was regular guy, I couldn't believe it.' ... I never expected he would kill anybody but what does that mean?" said Dr. Granstein, Sharpe's research supervisor in the Wellman Laboratory...
Since the gimbal could turn the boat only so much, the ILM crew had to jostle it further after scanning footage into the computer. And since no miniatures were used, "for a very wide shot," says ILM's associate effects supervisor Doug Smythe, "the boat would be computer-generated as well." At times, so were the actors. During a sequence in which Clooney climbs an outrigger to cut loose a flailing stabilizer, a CG double was created for certain camera angles. (Basically, when you're not seeing Clooney's face, you're seeing a digital dummy...
...feat, of course, rivaled ILM's waterworks. During the film's research and development stage, another associate effects supervisor, Habib Zargarpour, studied how waves break and froth by leaning out of a helicopter and sailing on choppy seas with a video camera. "First we found out it's all about foam," says Zargarpour. "Then we found out it's all about mist." Reality was then simulated by ILM's software creators, fluid-dynamics expert John Anderson and programmer Masi Oka. Given variables like wind velocity, for example, the program could determine the size of a wave or the magnitude...