Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's all about the special effects.
Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that.
I don't really think too much about special effects because that's not really something I can clearly visualize, so I leave that to the pros.
While it's easy to sit back and cherry pick bad visual effects and blame the industry for making movies the way they are, you're really not seeing the whole picture.
Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.
Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course.
I think I would struggle with any job if it was purely about effects. Even as a viewer, those aren't the kind of things that interest me.
Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.
I wouldn't want to do a whole movie with effects.
Great visual effects serve story and character and in doing so, are, by their very definition, invisible.