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The game's afoot: digital effects help shift time and space in the movie Zathura.(Film)(Chris Van Allsburg, Zathura)
The question is, What if board games were real? Author and illustrator Chris Van Allsburg has turned that flight of fancy into two children's storybooks, and the storybooks have become films that rely on effects rather than Allsburg's drawings to realize the fantasy. For the 1995 movie Jumanji, Industrial Light & Magic brought a jungle of CG animals into young Danny and Walter Budwing's lives and living room to scary effect, developing custom hair simulation and facial animation software to do so.
Now, Allsburg's second story, Zathura, is being lifted off the pages and enlivened in film: Directed by Jon Favreau of Elf fame, Sony Pictures Entertainment's Zathura ...
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