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A Look Under the
By Eddie Robinson
WORKFLOW
year is 2000, and a unique TV show has hit the airwaves. CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation is a new kind of drama that will define a genre in television entertain-
ment. CSI: Miami and CSI: New York both follow as spin-offs, along with similar shows
such as NCIS and its spin-offs.
The 1999 George Clooney film "Three Kings" gave us our first look at the super-micro, dive-into-
the-body VFX shot. For the first time, we could see the path of destruction a bullet leaves as it bisects
bone, tissue, and organs. CSI was the first to pick up that ball and run with it on prime-time TV, provid-
ing unique camera views and camera movements atypical for a television series even today.
■ THE CREW AT INHANCE created
a faux casino using miniatures and
computer graphics.
CSI: Crime Scene
is a new kind of drama that will define a genre in television entertain-
both follow as spin-offs, along with similar shows
micrOscope
CSI: Making television history with
micro-VFX for show number 300
By Eddie Robison
