How Does Hollywood Achieve Those Special Effects?

Published on August 7, 2019 By Chloe Draws

Space Jam

If you were a kid in the 1990s, there’s a good chance you saw Space Jam. The 1996 sports film combined live-action and animation to make it look like Michael Jordan was playing basketball alongside the Looney Tunes.

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Of course, he wasn’t. While the animated characters were added later on, Jordan still had to act his part against nothing. Here, we can see the humans who dressed in green and acted opposite the basket player. We think he did a great job!