[Hero]

This is almost (*gasp*) two weeks old, but I found a fun article/podcast involving Stargate Digital, who was the main Visual Effects company for HEROES. The article is here, and the pics are fun to see, imo. Just a teaser of an excerpt to follow, since the full images help explain what you see better than what I've posted:

Heroes is shot nearly entirely in Los Angeles with the exception of a small hand full of shots, yet the shows characters travel from India to NY - both now and in the future. To achieve this the production worked with Stargate Digital. In this week's podcast we speak with VFX Supervisor Mark Kolpack and Supervising Producer Mark Spatny about Stargate Digital's work on the NBC television series Heroes...

...Early on, the show had to deal with flying characters. VFX Supervisor Mark Kolpack wanted to produce feature film level effects and to improve on the normal solutions for flying. While some wire work is still done as in the shots above, they worked on new approaches. The show started doing full body scans and producing digital doubles to allow for more believeable flying sequences in the show. While initally considered a gamble, many of the actors have now been scanned and digital doubles are used as a standard part of the visual effects tools at the team's disposal....

Below are the full-size images of the before, additonal elements, and after shots of ground zero, with the requisite links back to flickr:
Ground Zero, before and full-size image

Other image elements and full-size image

Ground Zero, final and full-size image