Although Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) had been around for quite some time by 1991, it was that years summer blockbuster Terminator 2: Judgment Day that propelled the visual effects technique into the mainstream, thanks in no small part to the often imitated liquid metal effects used to realise the T-1000's (portrayed b X-Files' Robert Patrick) shape shifting and mimicry abilities. So influential where the effects pioneered by ILM (Industrial Light & Magic) that many movies produced during the nineties emulated the effect - Timecops time-jump effect, Stargate's watery gateway, The Matrix's mirror arm effect when Neo takes his pill...
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