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There aren't many islands in the world where you can find a beautiful beachfront mansion surrounded by low-rent houses. Yet in the film Bad Boys II, you see exactly that in a scene crafted at Sony Pictures Imageworks.
A camera mounted on a helicopter flies toward a beach supposedly in Cuba, cranes up as it nears a mansion, circles closer, goes behind the mansion to look at it from a "safe house," and slides past a row of small houses. The landscape looks real, but this scene of a diamond in the rough is an illusion fashioned from a live-action shot of a mansion in Miami; row houses photographed in Puerto Rico and placed on 3D geometry; digital trees, photographs ...