Movie Miniatures

I stumbled on this retrospective from Alex Funke on his 30 years doing miniature photography for Hollywood films. "Let’s consider th...

I ran across this clip from a low-budget made-for-TV movie called "Landslide." IMDB has several entries using that name, so I'...

Special Effects Artist Greg Aronowitz has been involved in a wide variety of interesting productions, but here's a nice little environme...

While this short film has been around for awhile, it's a great demonstration of how miniatures can be used to add production value to a ...

Peter from the jaw-dropping Matte Shot blog dropped by and left the following note: "I run an extensive blog called Matte Shot on tra...

 A nice little page with some pics of Scud missile launchers used in the film Stealth . In the sequence, the fighter pilots attack a mounta...

While I am not a fan of the Star Wars prequels, there was some darn fine miniature work done on the three films. A thread over at the Jedi C...

I'm a sucker for films set in the 1930s-era, and The Rocketeer  is an old favorite. Disney totally blew it by not giving this franchise...

The details of the model build of the independent short Skyborn by Cat Harris.  Some very nice work is included in the trailer embedded on ...

Taking a cue from Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, this low-budget director turned a $23 Wal-Mart toy into an exce...

 I ran across an interesting tidbit on the excellent "Matte Shot" blog explaining a Chicago miniature explosion using a foam-core ...

Although Michael Paul Smith isn't involved in movie production, his photographs of miniature vehicles using forced perspective are a gre...

Fon Davis loves miniatures. He's been at work in the Hollywood industry for a long time and his company, Fonco, now provides special eff...

The Mental Floss web site recently did a breakdown of some of their favorite miniature shots. "Filmmakers are, by nature, liars. They...

This week I added a link to an article outlining how to add a miniature helicopter to your film. That was the third post on miniature helico...

 Film Riot is a web series that exists to help low-budget filmmakers add special effects to their films. While most of what they cover is di...

Modelmaker David Sisson reminisces about his attempts to create a super-8 sci-fi epic in the early 1980s. Having attempted such things mysel...