You may have noticed it, but one of my favorite Red Giant Products, Magic Bullet Looks, was used in the Oscar-nominated film, “The Curious case of Benjamin Button.”

“One of the scenes in [The Curious Case of Benjamin Button] is a fable told by Cate Blanchett. We were looking for ways to set this scene apart and decided to give it an old movie look, since it’s a movie-within-a-movie. To that aim, we settled on treating these shots with Magic Bullet Looks. The final version that appears in the film was processed through [Adobe] After Effects where we ‘baked in’ the effect. There are also a few other scenes throughout that received a little Magic Bullet love,” said Angus Wall, editor of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Read full article here: http://www.videography.com/articlefeatures/58904

So, in summary, yes, it’s true: Magic Bullet Looks makes Brad Pit look really really really good. With out MB,  he’d just look really good.

Oh, and while we’re on the subject, you can find some great tutorials that use Magic Bullet Looks  here.