10 CGI Movie Shots You Never Noticed
1. Johnny Depp Never Blinks - Dark Shadows
Tim Burton's big-screen adaptation of 1960s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows stars Johnny Depp as vampire Barnabas Collins, and in order to further sell the notion that Depp was playing a blood-sucker, Burton went to the extreme of touching-up almost every shot of his performance digitally.
Watch the movie and you won't see Barnabas blink even a single time, because Burton had all of Depp's blinks digitally removed to further enhance the uncanny nature of his appearance.
While one could certainly entertain the notion that Depp, ever an acting masochist, did this the hard way by simply not blinking on set, Burton ended up letting the VFX team do it in post, the results of which are at least impressively seamless.
Then again, given that the $150 million Dark Shadows is awash in so much CGI in almost every shot, this sneaky flourish gets to basically hide in plain sight.