VFX artists analyze scenes of the Headless Horseman from Sleepy Hollow and explain why the effect still looks great 25 years later. Directed by Tim Burton, Sleepy Hollow is one of a number of adaptations of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. The film, which stars Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Christopher Walken, and Michael Gambon, follows Ichabod Crane as he travels to the small town of Sleepy Hollow in New York to investigate a series of decapitations at the hands of the mysterious Headless Horseman.
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