The all-England production of THE BORROWERS ups the ante, providing the most complicated and believable miniature-people in the modern age of film. The last big effort was ILM's terrific work on THE INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD. THE BORROWERS has taken the next step, not only with plenty of composites of actors shot against bluescreen and straight, clean shots of actors performing on oversized sets, but the use of computer generated characters as humans, both for massive wide shots and relatively tight, hero shots, sets THE BORROWERS apart previous miniature-people efforts.

The top image contains numerous bluescreen-shot elements of 'borrowers' surrounding and capturing bad-guy John Goodman. The bottom image is a collection of bluescreen-shot composites and computer generated extras, filling the scene with hundreds of cheering 'borrowers' throughout the sweeping camera move.