Now entering its eleventh season, CSI returns to CBS on September 23 at 10pm looking bigger and better than ever.

I had the opportunity to go behind the scenes of the show at the Zoic Studios sound stages in North Hollywood.

The sound stage is home to CSI and CSI Miami second unit photography along with numerous other commercial, trailer and film shoots throughout the year. It was a unique opportunity to see how the crew at Zoic Studios creates the visual effects for the show. The Zoic team recently won an Emmy for their visual effects for CSI, so it was definitely a treat to see the team in action. Rik Shorten, Visual Effects Supervisor along with Derek Smith, Lead Artist for the show were my tour guides on my behind the scenes journey. In the next couple of weeks I will be watching as the Zoic teams goes from production into post and will be giving you, the I Design Your Eyes readers, a rare glimpse of what it takes to create visual effects from soup to nuts. In the meantime, here are a few pictures I took on set.