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“The film cleverly inserts itself into the ongoing Marvel universe, including a prologue that contains the most remarkable de-aging of an actor I have ever seen. The scene features Michael Douglas aged back to his  Black Rain days, and it’s jaw-dropping in its quality and its seamlessness. I don’t know how much the effects cost […]

“Kicking off with a 1989-set prologue starring a CG-de-aged Michael Douglas that clears the uncanny valley so comfortably it plants a flag in the opposite peak, Ant-Man wastes little time in introducing its leads”. http://theincrediblesuit.blogspot.com/2015/07/ant-man-film-review.html

“We open in a flashback to 1989, where scientist Henry Pym (Michael Douglas, digitally rejuvenated far more effectively than Jeff Bridges in “Tron: Legacy” and less waxily than Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Terminator Genisys”) leaves Stark Enterprises and takes his “Pym particle” with him after a nefarious executive (Martin Donovan) plans to weaponize it”. http://www.thewrap.com/ant-man-review-paul-rudd-michael-douglas-evangeline-lilly-mcu/

“A table-setting 1989 opening has a 40ish-looking Michael Douglas (playing Dr. Hank Pym, the man behind a revolutionary discovery called the Pym Particle) gravely announcing that, “As long as I am alive, nobody is ever going to get that formula.” Arresting as this statement is, it’s hard to pay attention to it while in the […]

We visit Lola VFX to explore their incredible digital beauty and facial work on films such as Benjamin Button, The Social Network and the Captain America movies. http://www.fxguide.com/fxguidetv/fxguidetv-202-the-art-of-lola-vfx/    

WINNER 2009 BAFTA SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS:BENJAMIN BUTTON Congratulations to Eric Barba, Craig Barron, Nathan McGuinness, and Edson Williams! http://awards.bafta.org/award/2009/film/special-visual-effects

“Wait a second. Isn’t that Sigourney Weaver in her signature role as Lt. Ripley in the movie “Aliens,” kicking alien butt while talking about . . . satellite TV service. . . in a new TV commercial”?   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/06/AR2007080601540.html

“Six months, a plastic surgeon, the right software, and the right Visual Effects Producer can do almost anything. Here’s an interview with Lola Visual Effects Producer Thomas Nittmann on how he was able to reduce the age of X-Men characters by decades”. Entertainment Engineering

“There’s new competition for actors aiming to make it big in Hollywood: Stars from the past could soon rise from the dead, thanks to computer graphics, to play in new feature films as if they had never passed away”. Japan Times: RE:VIEW http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2006/08/17/films/films-future-is-now/#.ViP_MfTbKo0

“Stars already have their own makeup artist, personal trainer and hair stylist on the pic payroll. Now add digital cosmetic enhancement. Such digital f/x work can turn acne to peaches-and-cream, put six-packs on flabby abs, even rehabilitate a face marred by cosmetic surgery”. http://variety.com/2006/film/news/f-x-take-off-the-years-1200339819/