Special effects are obviously important for so many movies of various genres, even if they probably shouldn’t be the sole reason you watch a film (with some exceptions… like, maybe Avatar). That makes ...

For more than ten years, independent filmmakers were told that visual effects would make their films look as good as those made by studios. Digital tools got cheaper, compositing software got easier ...

It’s true, on the most elemental level, that all one really needs to “make a movie” is a camera and a subject to point it at. Since the advent of the motion picture camera, people have been capturing ...

F0r almost as long as there have been movies in theaters, there’s been a need for special visual effects to bring them to life. However, it wasn’t until 1938 that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts ...