- Dimetrodons would be digitally created - just like how the T-Rex is
- Live action plates will be shot and afterwards the dinosaurs would be added in
- This eliminates usages of front projection - front projection was, at this point, no longer used
- The backgrounds are accomplished by building a portion of the set (the part the actors interact with) and the remaining part of the set will be a green or blue screen (they used blue screen on the sets for the 2008 version)
- The blue screen will be replaced by digital environments created on computers via chroma keying
Since there have been a couple of movies titled, 'Journey to the Center of the Earth' I've decided to use the most recent variation, released in 2008, to show how the effects are created today.
To start with the Dimetrodons would definitely not have been made using live animals in costumes. Dinosaurs did make a return in the 2008 edition, and they were made digitally as a 3D model composited into the live action sequences.
Near enough the entire movie was made digitally as a lot of the scenes were shot against a blue screen. Blue screen and green screen are used the majority of the time in film now since it allows easy removal of the background through chroma key and it also means that film sets only need to be partially built. On some occasions, although fairly uncommon, red screen has been used.
As seen in the above link, the set is predominately a blue screen except for some props that the actors are interacting with, like the raft and the rock.
Like in the 1959 version, the 2008 Journey to the Center of the Earth has a scene where the characters are floating on a raft at sea. As mentioned before, the original film used rear projection to create the scene, however, the 2008 film shot the scene against a blue screen and then the sea and the fish were all created digitally.
Like in the 1959 version, the 2008 Journey to the Center of the Earth has a scene where the characters are floating on a raft at sea. As mentioned before, the original film used rear projection to create the scene, however, the 2008 film shot the scene against a blue screen and then the sea and the fish were all created digitally.
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Like in both version the raft was part of the set. |
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This scene in the mine cart is also shot like that of the raft. |
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