Computer special effects were used to combine sequences and add water, fire, clouds and rain.

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He makes lavish use of computer-generated special effects, but he still passionately prefers the look and feel of celluloid film.

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Huang used an iPad and MacBook Air to access rich computer-aided design files and special effects software that typically require a burly graphics processor running on a dedicated workstation or server.

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Broadway is in competition not only with television, but also with the cinema, theme parks and even computer games, all of which offer thrilling special effects.

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Centro has become a niche player in computer animation, developing such things as the special effects for the action film The StormRiders, which topped the territory's box office last year.

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Second, Ari Rapkin, a computer graphics software engineer at ILM, introduces an amazing paradox: What the special-effects crews are doing is often not emulating physics but tweaking it--because storytelling is better served by showing the audience what it expects, not what would actually happen if a 3-foot-tall creature drew his light saber.

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