CGI makes Snakes a thriller.

by Brandon | August 18, 2006 2:25 am

Critics aren’t exactly jumping out of their seats to laud the reptilian animation in the new Samuel L. Jackson film Snakes on a Plane but Canada.com[1] shares that it’s this animation that keeps people on the edge of their seats in this horror flick. Although over 400 live snakes were actually used in filming, “‘snakes on a set’ don’t move around a lot and are kind of quiet,” said Philippe Theroux, 3-D supervisor for Quebec’s Hybride Technologies Inc.. The company, which also worked on Sin City and all three Spy Kids movies dedicated a team of more than 80 people to create more than nine different types of unrealistically vicious, fast, and long-fanged snakes for the film, including a few which don’t even really exist. Theroux called the film “way over the edge.” But it’s certainly the over-the-top computerized snakes that give it that edge. “If you go there and you expect to see something serious or something realistic, you’re missing the point.”

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