They totally CGI-ed that bread into existence, didn’t they? Wrong, says special effects supervisor Chris Corbould, who spoke with MTV News about what went into making that single moment.
“Surprisingly that was done practically, although so many people have said to me, ’we thought that was a digital effect!’” Corbould said.
Took ’em three months to get those few seconds of footage right, and of course you wouldn’t want to eat the stuff, but: they did that effect the old-fashioned way. That happened a lot in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which is one reason why the movie is a monster. And not the smallest reason why, either.
The practical effects cost more, but the CGI often look fake.
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