ABSTRACT
Digital Domain's character animation team was asked to create a complex destruction sequence for Time Machine's main villain... the Uber Morlock. This was to be no ordinary demise. Our villain had to age rapidly. His skin was to wrinkle, discolor, and disintegrate. His hair was to recede, his clothing to oxidize and fall apart. His muscles were to atrophy, eventually releasing his bones one by one. Finally his bones were to break apart and turn to dust.
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