New Season 3 Promotional 图片

When Sylar telekinetically throws a 淋浴 of flying glass at Peter Petrelli in season 1, The effect is created digitally, as it is not possible to do physically (At least not without hurting the actors....)

On the computer, the glass shards are initially represented 由 black 2D shapes. CGI artist Mike Cook explains, "What they do on set is, they take a multitude of images(of the room itself) in a 360-degree veiw and we can use the 图片 to put accurate lighting on the 3D objects."

"There was a real shard of glass used in the episode, so we wanted to make it look the same," adds fellow CGI practitioner...

I enjoy watching Heroes. I truly do. It's a great 显示 to watch and every week I tune in. But from the very beginning of season one, I had issues with 超能英雄 and its very obvious character parallels to X-Men. Sure there are those basic powers one must hit for entertainment purposes: flying, instant healing, 阅读 minds. But just for my sake of drawing the character parallels because this stuff interests me, here are some of the instant X-Men/Heroes connections (nine-tenths of my X-Men knowledge is based on the 电影院 -- so I apologize if I managle comic book lore.)