Special effects technician and pioneer Eugen Schüfftan left his mark on Metropolis in numerous aspects, with extensive use of miniatures in the titular city, along with matte paintings and the ...

Spoilers ahead. Director Valdimar Jóhannsson and visual-effects supervisor Fredrik Nord unpack the A24 movie's creepy visual invention.

His uncle—a special effects technician—had invited him to set to watch the Disney adventure The Rocketeer being made. “I got to see them blow up the zeppelin while the Rocketeer was running on top of ...

Then, a special effects technician took a prosthetic head “doused in igniter fluid” and walked it through the house, “matching the stunt performer’s moves.” The two elements were then ...

Special effects have always been a major part of cinema history, and the very first instance of their use came in 1895, in a film produced by inventor of the light bulb, Thomas Edison. These days ...

A special effects technician working on the new Batman film was killed when a vehicle he was in crashed while on a stunt test run. The The victim was on a camera truck which was following a stunt ...

The Empire of Effects is ostensibly about Industrial Light & Magic, the special effects company that George Lucas started in the 1970s to work on Star Wars and that ended up defining the look of ...

Look, when there’s a topic that involves talking about special effects, particularly as they relate to either the horror or science fiction genres, you could well fill a top 10 with only movies ...