LOL today it'd probably be all greenscreen. I like it the way it is.
It was all live—the graphics were designed and generated on an HP 9845C system, painstakingly transferred to 35 mm film, and projected onto the dozen enormous screens on-set. According to the visual effects supervisor, "It was the first film to have real time 24fps computer graphic displays (as crude as they now seem)." Wikipedia claims the film won an Academy Scientific and Technical Award for it and if so, it was well-deserved.
(Back to the Oscars! At the 56th Academy Awards, Wargames lost Best Original Screenplay to Tender Mercies, Best Sound to The Right Stuff, and Best Cinematography to Fanny and Alexander. I am . . . not going to argue with that last one. It should maybe have lost Best Original Screenplay to Fanny and Alexander, too. It was not nominated for Best Visual Effects because it does not look as though the category existed as such that year, but it would almost certainly have lost to Return of the Jedi, which got a Special Achievement Award instead.)
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It was all live—the graphics were designed and generated on an HP 9845C system, painstakingly transferred to 35 mm film, and projected onto the dozen enormous screens on-set. According to the visual effects supervisor, "It was the first film to have real time 24fps computer graphic displays (as crude as they now seem)." Wikipedia claims the film won an Academy Scientific and Technical Award for it and if so, it was well-deserved.
(Back to the Oscars! At the 56th Academy Awards, Wargames lost Best Original Screenplay to Tender Mercies, Best Sound to The Right Stuff, and Best Cinematography to Fanny and Alexander. I am . . . not going to argue with that last one. It should maybe have lost Best Original Screenplay to Fanny and Alexander, too. It was not nominated for Best Visual Effects because it does not look as though the category existed as such that year, but it would almost certainly have lost to Return of the Jedi, which got a Special Achievement Award instead.)