The Science Channel has given us the rundown of the December episodes of Science of the Movies and it is a very impressive line-up! First, in “Puppet Meisters – The Magic Behind Team America: World Police,” premiering Thursday, December 3 at 8 PM (ET/PT), the Chiodo Brothers, makers of the marionetts for Team America: World Police, give host Nar Williams a hands-on lesson in puppet sculpting. Later in the episode, Nar visits Technicolor to get a crash course in movie coloring, and animal wrangler Jules Sylvester unleashes a roomful of creepy crawlers.
Nar gets an inside look at the studio of a legendary icon responsible for some of Hollywood’s most memorable special effects. ILS, George Lucas’s studio, Williams learns the secrets behind blockbuster hits like Star Wars, E.T., The Terminator and Pirates of the Caribbean in the “The Magical World of George Lucas” premiering Thursday, December 10 at 8 PM (ET/PT). With the studio claiming an impressive 15 Academy Awards, ILS truly is one of the best at creating special effects animation. Viewers will catch an inside look at the computer software that combined the physics of water motion with the creative artistic licenses of the staff to reveal how ILS created the giant whirl pool maelstrom in Pirates of the Caribbean: A World’s End.
In “Transformers: Bumblebee Rises!’, premiering Thursday, December 17 at 8 PM (ET/PT), Nar helps FXPERTS reconstruct a 20-foot replica of Bumblebee from the blockbuster movie Transformers. And, Williams morphs into a video game character at Image Metrics, investigates the science of 3-D film making at Stereoscope and gets his brain waves read by neuromarketing company fMRI.
