Dennis Muren interview: How Willow changed the movies - Telegraph

By Daisy Bowie-Sell

Dennis Muren:​

“We shot five different pieces of film, of a goat, an ostrich, a tiger, a tortoise and a woman and had one actually change into the shape of the other one without having to cut away. The technique is much more realistic because the cuts are done for dramatic reasons, rather than to stop it from looking bad.”

 

A good read. Makes you think about the time when to do effects you had to be able to physically build it. That made it much easier to understand what we did as effects artists.