Probably the summer's biggest effects film is the $170 million ARMAGEDDON, the new Jerry Bruckheimer film starring Bruce Willis as a drilling specialist sent to space to destroy an oncoming asteroid headed to earth. The duo that supervised/produced CHAIN REACTION and DANTE'S PEAK for Digital Domain, Pat McClung and Thom Randmaa are helmed the visual effects, with miniatures built, shot and composited by an in-house team (ARMAGEDDON FX), led by compositing supervisor Adam Howard.

A great deal of Hollywood's finest houses contributed to ARMAGEDDON, including Dream Quest Images, supervised by Richard Hoover and Hoyt Yeatman (who oversaw the Paris destruction shot); Digital Magic (who composited the New York destruction sequence), Digital Domain (Shanghai destruction), Blue Sky|VIFX (the film's opening shot), and many, many more.

Learn more about the effects by visiting the ARMAGEDDON pages on VFX HQ:

• FX Review, an in-depth critical look at the film's effects
• New York, images and info from the New York destruction sequence
• Paris, images and info from the Paris destruction sequence
• The Rock, images and info of the asteroid and space

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