How Does Hollywood Achieve Those Special Effects?

Published on August 7, 2019 By Chloe Draws

Life of Pi

They called it the unfilmable movie. Due to its huge imagination and story beats, Hollywood wasn’t sure if they could pull off the impressive adaptation of the Michael Morpurgo novel. Well, they put their minds together and came out with this.

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As we can see, they didn’t use a real tiger (thank god!), and most of the sailing scenes were shot in a studio pool. So even though there was a lot of CGI, it’s nice to see the actor actually floating on the water.