Indiana Jones
Pablo Helman, Marshall Krasser, Jeff White · 2008
This sketch will highlight the wide range of challenges the visual effects team faced in creating the 540 visual effects shots (on screen for some 48-minutes) in this film. Although the team developed cutting edge technology to solve many of the issues that had to be dealt with they were also careful to remain true to the original films. ILM made the decision early on to utilize miniatures for a number of sequences but they weren't necessarily used as you might have thought. Constructing the short-lived town known as Doomtown used both practical miniatures and digital technology to achieve the resulting sequence. It was also necessary to develop advanced smoke and particle simulation techniques for the iconic nuclear event sequence.