Entity FX of Santa Monica is working on a big chunk of the massive effects needed for each episode of PUSHING DAISIES. Detailing the type of work they do on any given episode, Kymber Lim, exec producer at Entity FX says, "There are a bunch of flashback sequences and we are doing a lot more of the creative work in those sequences." Visual Effects Supervisor Eli Jarra at Entity FX continues, "The biggest challenge has been bringing things back to life. In the third episode, 'The Fun in Funeral,' Ned is bringing back fireflies and is experimenting as a kid to discover his powers. We were bringing back fireflies and spiders were being animated to die. It's a wide variety of things to do." Lim continues, "We modeled and animated the flies, a spider and for a series of maybe 19 shots that we did for that sequence."

DVD Special Features Include:

-- The Master Pie Maker -- Hop into creator Bryan Fuller's mind to discover the inner secrets of PUSHING DAISIES!
-- From Oven to Table -- Follow the production challenges of taking one of Bryan Fuller's script ideas, involving a lighthouse and an egg, and crafting it into reality.
-- Secret Sweet Ingredients -- Learn how composer Jim Dooley's music shapes a scene in ways most viewers aren't even aware of.
-- Add a Little Magic -- Watch the visual effects team bring a 2-ton rhino to life and learn about the challenges of executing a scene to rival JUMANJI!

PUSHING DAISIES is from Living Dead Guy Productions, The Jinks/Cohen Company in association with Warner Bros. Television. PUSHING DAISIES is executive produced by Dan Jinks & Bruce Cohen, Barry Sonnenfeld, Bryan Fuller and Peter Ocko.

WATCHMEN on DVD and Blu-ray

Someone's killing our super heroes. The year is 1985 and super heroes have banded together to respond to the murder of one of their own. They soon uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger. The super heroes fight to stop the impending doom only to find themselves a target for annihilation. But, if our super heroes are gone, who will save us?

WATCHMEN is also the perfect fit for Visual Effects Supervisor John DJ DesJardin (THE MATRIX RELOADED and REVOLUTIONS, FANTASTIC FOUR and X-MEN: THE LAST STAND), who is a self-proclaimed comic geek. DesJardin oversaw 1,100 vfx shots, divided among several studios, including Sony Pictures Imageworks, MPC Vancouver, Intelligent Creatures, CIS and Rising Sun Pictures. McDowell and DesJardin provide an overview of their work in the first part of our coverage, while we offer a more detailed survey of the studios' contributions in the second part.

"WATCHMEN is all about details... it's all about telescoping time," McDowell insists. "The editorial tool is the way to turn the graphic novel into the film; you can get so much information across in a parallel way, and we approached the design that way. So this idea that you can embed these threads and cram stuff in parallel time really came across. But WATCHMEN is a traditional film in many ways. And for the designer, it's the density that's the challenge: the actual complexity was logistic. "There were many, many more sets than I've ever built in a movie (around 200) because of all the layering of time and space that we had to deal with, the character threads, there has to be so much material that has to be created to carry the story."

Read more of VFXWorld's in-depth WATCHMEN coverage here and here.

Special Edition DVD Features Include:

WATCHMEN: Director's Cut
The Phenomenon: The Comic that Changed Comics
WATCHMEN: Video Journals (over 30 min)
Music Video: My Chemical Romance "Desolation Row"
Digital Copy -- Theatrical Version

Blu-ray Special Features:

WATCHMEN: Director's Cut
Warner Bros. Maximum Movie Mode
WATCHMEN: Focus Points (over 30 minutes)
BD Live
The Phenomenon: The Comic that Changed Comics
Real Super Heroes, Real Vigilantes
Mechanics: Technologies of a Fantastic World
Music Video: My Chemical Romance "Desolation Row"
Digital Copy -- Theatrical version