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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><title>NOVA Online | Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond | Titanic: What's Real</title></head> <body bgcolor="#000033" text="#FFFFFF" link="#00FF99" vlink="#009999"> <table width="544" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tr align="left"> <td align="left" valign="top" height="53"><img src="/wgbh/nova/specialfx2/images/specialfx2nova.jpeg" alt="NOVA Online (click here for NOVA home)" width="544" height="53" border="0" usemap="#specialfx2nova"></td> </tr> </table> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tr align="left"> <td align="left" valign="top"> <a href="/wgbh/nova/specialfx2/"><img src="/wgbh/nova/specialfx2/images/specialfx2title.gif" alt="Special Effects Titanic and Beyond" width="66" height="275" border="0"></a><br> </td> <td align="left" valign="top"> <a href="/wgbh/nova/specialfx2/textindex.html"><img src="/wgbh/nova/specialfx2/images/specialfx2side.gif" alt="Site Map" width="50" height="275" border="0"></a><br> </td> <td align="left" valign="top"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, Geneva" size="3"><br>  <font size="4"><b>Titanic: What's Real</b></font><br> <font size="2">by Kelly Tyler<br><br><br></font> Creating "Titanic" was an epic technological undertaking, akin to the building of the ill-fated ship more than 86 years ago. Digital Domain and 16 other companies created over 450 effects shots for the film. From state-of-the-art computer-generated imagery to tried-and-true techniques from the visual effects tradition, nearly 500 elements were combined in the freeze-frame below. What's real? 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