Inception
Visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin first teamed up with Christopher Nolan on the mind-bending, cerebral thriller Inception.
"Some of the more spectacular imagery of the film—the street folding over in Paris, characters creating architecture out of thin air—are VFX shots that we created from a combination of live action and copious amounts of digital animation," Franklin said.
Although much of Franklin's work on the film was CGI-based, the VFX team built a miniature version of the mountain fortress set. "The great thing about miniatures is they give you this chaotic reality that digital hasn't quite gotten to yet," he said. Franklin also used CGI to "subtly bend elements like physics, space, and time."