Posts tagged movie magic

• 24 Oct

  Blog: Indy Mogul

  Wesley's Weekly HOW TO: Ghost Effect

  Making a ghost effect is one of the oldest tricks in special effects, but before the use of Optical Printers and green screens, effects makers used a trick known as "Pepper's Ghost" in which a semi-transparent mirror was used to reflect an image of a person standing off-camera. They would paint th