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Gladiator (2000) Movie - Behind the Scenes | Practical effects

A breakdown of the physical rigs, prosthetics, and in-camera effects used for Gladiator's combat sequences before digital compositing was added.

Root Studio · 11 min · Intermediate · VFX · VFX · 2018

What you take away

See what still gets built practically on a film that also relies heavily on visual effects.

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Filed under

The films in this lesson

Gladiator (2000)

Oscar winners for visual effects

Books on visual effects

The workstation

SanDisk Professional G-DRIVE 8TB — Desktop archive drive built for footage
Corsair 128GB DDR5 kit — For Unreal, caches and twelve open applications
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K — Quick Sync, which some codecs still love
Apple Mac mini M4 — The cheapest Mac that cuts 4K without complaint
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X — 16 cores — the sweet spot for a cutting room
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 — The sensible half-price render card

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