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| Visual Effects Crew with 4-Ward Productions. The Exterior of the Asylum is one of many miniature effects throughout, House on Haunted Hill |
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| Visual Effects Crew with 4-Ward Productions. The car chase scene for My Favorite Martian had interesting challenges. Normally you want your models to look larger then they are. In this case the the story line asked for the car to be shrunk. Its a double challenge. First a realistic looking model which will fool the eye into believing its full sized. Second blow the illusion by adding oversized background elements to make it look smaller then life. |
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| Visual Effects Crew with 4-Ward Productions. After being almost defeated by the mouse, Nathan Lane and Lee Evans try one last thing to rid them of the mouse. Flood the walls with water. |
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| Visual Effects Crew with 4-Ward Production. The dam in Hard Rain is a focal point in the story and only existed on our minature sets. At no point in the film was there ever an actual dam. |
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| Visual Effects Crew with 4-Ward Productions. Another challenge of Hard Rain was building models that would hold up to the water, and float at realistic levels. Sometimes this meant chopping the bottoms off of models so they would slide along a track. Other times it would mean making the models out of very light weight materials so they would tumble in the distructive waves. |
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| Visual Effect Crew with 4-Ward Productions. Having an eye for the smallest details was the key for the fly over shots in Hard Rain. We made hundreds of in scale flood control sand bags. Each yard had its own story, were the home owner neat nicks? Did they have kids that left their toys out in the backyard? No detail was left out. |
