Whether you’re accepting of the overwhelming use of digital effects or not, it’s hard to deny just how far we’ve come with the technology. So many little details can be added in later that you never even notice while watching, and it can be really incredible to see.

One example is the effects-heavy Pacific Rim, director Guillermo del Toro‘s massive giant robots versus giant monsters movie. Mirada Studios, which was co-founded by del Toro, Guillermo Navarro, Mathew Cullen, and Javier Jimenez, handled the over 80 visual effects shots created for the movie’s two-minute prologue (Industrial Lights and Magic did most of the rest of the movie), and they’ve released a special look at the befores and afters of some of these shots so we can see just how much goes into each one.

Click on over to the other side to check out the video below.

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[Source: via Gizmodo]