Featurette: Building a Digital New York for Avengers

"Behind the Magic: Building a Digital New York for "The Avengers"" by ILMVisualFX

When you're sitting through Avengers, there isn't a doubt in your mind that the action is taking place in New York city, but you might be surprised to discover that only a tiny fraction of the film was shot in the city.  The overwhleming majority of the climactic battle scene was shot in front of a green screen using a cityscape created from thousands of pictures of New York.

"Although roughly a third of “The Avengers” is set in New York City precious little was actually filmed there. ILM crew members photographed 7-miles of city streets from a variety of heights and at different times of day totaling 250,000 images. The crew then digitally recreated roughly 20 square blocks of mid-town Manhattan using a variety of techniques. Live action shoots were held primarily on sound stages in New Mexico and in the streets of Cleveland."

Featurette: Mass Effect Paragon Lost Anime

Behind The Scenes of Mass Effect Paragon Lost Anime Movie

Featurette: Blood & Chrome Drops

Making Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome

You can watch the first four episodes of Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome on Machinima Prime. The web series will run for ten episodes, with a 2-hour movie finale airing later on Syfy.

Featurette: Cloud Atlas - Multitude of Drops

Cloud Atlas Featurette - Multitude of Drops (2012)

An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.

Featurette: Evolution of a Raptor Suit

JURASSIC PARK - Evolution of a Raptor Suit

Stan Winston Studio created multiple raptors for JURASSIC PARK, including full-size cable-controlled puppets, half-puppets, insert legs and men-in-suits.

This exclusive "Making of" video, narrated by raptor suit performer, 25-year SWS supervisor & co-founder of Legacy Effects, John Rosengrant, walks you through the evolution of JURASSIC PARK's raptor suits, from first foam fabricated "garbage bag test" to the finished suits that you see in the final film. Check out more photos at the Stan Winston School of Character Art.

Featurette: Making Of James Bond Skyfall

Making Of Skyfall, packed with interviews. Skyfall is released in the UK on 26 October.

Featurette: Avengers Epilogue

The Avengers will be released on Blu-ray and DVD Sept. 25. To promote the release, the post-credits scene of the ultimate villain’s reveal has been officially released on the open Web.

Featurette: Halo 4 Warthog Chase Scene

Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn Behind the Scenes - "Shooting the Warthog Chase"

Step behind the scenes and get behind the wheel of WETA's Warthog as Machinima gives you the first look at the iconic Halo vehicle in night time action!

Featurette: Introduction To Cloud Atlas

Tom Tykwer, Lana and Andy Wachowski want to pitch Cloud Atlas to you, and tell you what they were thinking.

Featurette: The Creation of ParaNorman

ParaNorman features the voices of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jeff Garlin, John Goodman, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Leslie Mann, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Elaine Stritch, and Tucker Albrizzi. It opens on August 17.

The new 3D stop-motion comedy thriller from animation company LAIKA, reteaming the company with Focus Features after the groundbreaking Academy Award-nominated “Coraline.” “ParaNorman” is, following “Coraline,” the company’s second stop-motion animated feature to be made in 3D. In “ParaNorman,” a small town comes under siege by zombies. Who can it call? Only misunderstood local boy Norman (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee), who is able to speak with the dead. In addition to the zombies, he’ll have to take on ghosts, witches and, worst, of all, grown-ups, to save his town from a centuries-old curse. But this young ghoul whisperer may find his paranormal activities pushed to their otherworldly limits.

Featurette: Amazing Spider-Man School Fight

The high school hallway fight between Spider-Man and the Lizard in The Amazing Spider-Man was created entirely with digital effects? Check out how they did it in the behind-the-scenes featurette.

Featurette: Prometheus Visual Effects

The Daily and fxguide's exclusive look at the making of the opening scene of Prometheus. Find out how the Digital wizards at WETA created the incredible disintegration of the Engineer as his DNA unwinds and he falls into the waterfall of primordial Earth.

These videos show how the special effects of the opening scene were created using a combination of practical and digital effects. The seamless combination is the reason why Prometheus is so visually captivating.

The second video deconstructs the landing of the Prometheus on the alien world where the film takes place.

Featurette: Thus Spoke Zaeathustra

Patient moviegoers noticed that at the very end of the end credits for Prometheus, a logo for the fictional Weyland Corporation rolled onto the screen, with the tagline “Building Better Worlds Since 10. 11. 12″ and an address for the “corporate timeline” for Weyland Industries. It turns out that the Easter egg ultimately points Whatis101112.com, a bizarre little site that seems to imply that Weyland may have been a devotee of German philosopher Freidrich Nietzsche, author of Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None.

Featurette: The Secret Speakeasy at Pixar

Andrew Gordon tells the story of how he found a secret room behind an air conditioning vent at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, California. Gordon began decorated the room, and it became the Love Lounge, a secret speakeasy. Gordon later moved the offices and created the Lucky 7 Lounge, a similar room that has been outfitted with a sliding bookshelf door that can be opened via a button hidden under a bust of Shakespeare. This featurette was part of Studio Stories, a series of shorts included in the Toy Story DVD extras.

Featurette: Blade Runner Convention Reel

This Blade Runner Convention Reel features interviews with Ridley Scott, Syd Mead and Douglas Trumbull about making Blade Runner universe. This 16 mm featurette, made by M. K. Productions in 1982, is specifically designed to circulate through the country's various horror, fantasy and science fiction conventions.

Via: AICN

Featurette: Walking Dead Visual Effects

The Walking Dead - Season 2 Visual Effects

Featurette: Game Of Thrones

Take an exclusive look into Arya Stark's new look in Season 2, which premieres in April, 2012.

Featurette: Doctor Who Wrap Party

A video from David Tennant, Catherine Tate and John Barrowman to thank Russell T. Davies and Julie Gardner for their excellent work on the series. This was made for the wrap party at the end of David Tennant's tenure as the Doctor when both Russell and Julie were also moving on to other projects. Made in the style of Victoria Wood's "Let's Do It" sketches and songs.

Featurette: Real Steel Fight Scenes

Real Steel has outstanding fight sequences with convincingly real robots. This video shows how the scenes were created.

Featurette: The Story of River Song

The latest edition of the world's second greatest television show, Doctor Who Confidential, included a montage of the River Song time~line with EXCLUSIVE narration from Alex Kingston.