Seen and Heard

Seen at the Movies Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow makes a very good argument for digital design. For those who don’t know, Kerry Conran’s retro fantasy film, which stars Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow, is almost entirely composed of sets and backgrounds created in the computer; the actors went through their paces on bluescreen stages, using a minimum of live-action props, and Conran’s huge crew of designers and visual effects artists then went to work—for several years