Editing Blade Runner (section)

=== Special effects ===

The film's special effects are generally recognized to be among the best in the genre,<ref name="adamsavage">{{citation |url=http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a1775/4218376/ |title=Blade Runner at 25: Why the Sci-Fi F/X Are Still Unsurpassed |first=Adam |last=Savage |work=[[Popular Mechanics]] |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150402130018/http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a1775/4218376/ |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |date=July 2007}}</ref><ref>{{citation |url=https://www.empireonline.com/features/cinemas-greatest-vfx-shots/p6 |title=Los Angeles 2019 (Blade Runner)&nbsp;– Cinema's Greatest Effects Shots Picked by Hollywood's Top VFX Specialists |work=[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]] |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150518075420/http://www.empireonline.com/features/cinemas-greatest-vfx-shots/p6 |archive-date=May 18, 2015 |date=October 2, 2015}}</ref> using the available (non-digital) technology to the fullest. Special effects engineers who worked on the film are often praised for the innovative technology they used to produce and design certain aspects of those visuals.<ref name=":0" /> In addition to [[matte painting]]s and models, the techniques employed included multipass exposures. In some scenes, the set was lit, shot, the film rewound, and then rerecorded over with different lighting. In some cases this was done 16 times in all. The cameras were frequently [[motion control photography|motion controlled using computers]].<ref name="adamsavage" /> Many effects used techniques which had been developed during the production of ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]''.<ref>{{citation |url=http://douglastrumbull.com/key-fx-sequences-blade-runner-spinner-vehicles |title=Blade Runner: Spinner Vehicles |work=DouglasTrumbull.com |publisher=Trumbull Ventures |year=2010 |access-date=September 21, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150704062943/http://douglastrumbull.com/key-fx-sequences-blade-runner-spinner-vehicles |archive-date=July 4, 2015}}{{self-published source |date=February 2018 |reason=This is a permissible SPS, per WP:ABOUTSELF.}}</ref>