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An Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor picks the 5 movies that floored him visually

on Aug 17, 2012

[ted id=1524 width=560 height=315] Most people get into visual effects for the explosions. But not Robert Legato, the visual effects supervisor of Avatar and The Aviator, who also won Oscars for his work on Titanic and Hugo. “Everything I end up liking is outrageously simple,” Robert tells the TED Blog. In this thrilling talk given […]

The visual reality of movies: Robert Legato at TEDGlobal 2012

By Ben Lillie

on Jun 27, 2012

Robert Legato’s life is about perception. He is a two-time Oscar winner for his visual effects magic, and in this spectacularly visual talk he dissects some of his most famous effects, showing how they use the brain’s processes to create the effect of reality. Apollo 13 Working on this, he discovered something about how our brains work: “When we’re […]