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Terminator 2 needed a new kind of software

The liquid metal effect required tools written specifically for it For Terminator 2 in 1991, Industrial Light and Magic had to build software to animate and shade a shape-changing metal figure, since existing tools could not handle it. Only a few minutes of the film are computer generated, but they convinced studios that digital effects could carry a story. The film won the Academy Award for visual effects. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The liquid metal effect required tools written specifically for it. The figure is taken from Industrial Light and Magic, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.