A closer look
Before Hollywood handed him the keys to the Godzilla franchise, Gareth Edwards was basically pulling off digital miracles in a messy bedroom. Instead of relying on an entire department of exhausted VFX artists, he took a microbudget indie film and simply painted alien tentacles over his raw camera footage every single night. He used standard consumer software you probably have installed on your laptop right now, proving that you do not need a Marvel-sized budget to create genuinely terrifying giant monsters—just a ridiculous amount of patience.
