A Look Under the microscope

摘要

The article describes the production of the 30-second opening shot of Episode 300 of the television film "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," using the super-micro, dive-into-the-body VFX shot. The author says the writers described a crime scene where a murder had taken the life of a young woman, leaving her body resting on a four-foot-tall architectural model of a hotel called The Premier. He describes how the scene was created using motion-control cameras, miniatures and computer graphics magic.