While not a new VFX sequence by any means, 1999’s Fight Club intro still remains a fantastic piece of CG work. The LATimes sits down with Kevin Mack to discuss his most memorable scene, which is this intro.
I got data from various people and consulted with Dr. John Mazziota, professor of nuclear medicine and imaging at UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine and director of their Brain Mapping Center, to find out what they really looked like and how to grow the brain instead of using scanned models.
We were fighting against the limitations of technology because computers were really slow back then [in 1999]. It’s all computer-generated and mapped using an L-system and ray tracing graphics.I’ve been told it’s the most anatomically correct and realistic visualization of the brain. It was a breakthrough shot that had never been done before.
See the full intro after the break.
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