VOTD: Go Behind The Scenes Of The 'Pacific Rim' Prologue

Even people who didn't adore Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim as a whole still tended to love the film's prologue. That two-minute sequence set up a world unlike any other. A futuristic world where giant monsters have begun to invade Earth and humans develop huge robots called Jaegers to battle them. A real life company called Mirada, co-founded by del Toro along with his Pac Rim DP Guillermo Navarro, and Mathew Cullen and Javier Jimenez, conceived and created the sequence, comprised over over 80 special effects shots.

They've now released a video called "Before and Afters" which shows how the entire sequence came together. It's pretty excellent.

Thanks to Superhero Hype for the heads up: