special effects
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He told The Media Show there were times he "used to dread going on a Doctor Who set" because of the expensive special effects and "explosions going on, people pulling themselves in to prosthetics".
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Tours of the exhibit will be offered throughout the afternoon, but come to learn how to be transformed into a vampire at a special effects workshop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson, a special effects specialist, said in May at the Cannes Film Festival that he thought AI was "going to destroy the world".
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
His singular belief in his skills, that the special effects were the movie, made sense given how personally he took his work.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
He wasn’t sure if it was from yesterday’s head injury, Phorcys’s special effects, or his sister’s lectures on nauseating sea monster facts.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
