Jeremy Chernick has built a career around theatrical special effects — work that has also taken him into film and television. You’d imagine he grew up the kind of kid who figured out a way to make ...

The computer now allows special effects experts to contrive cinematic scenes that are far longer than previously possible – and thanks to advancing computer technology, costs are going down, not up.

Generative A.I. is taking the film industry by storm – and an increasing number of studios are employing it to streamline ...

The 1980s were a high-water mark for many classic special effects disciplines, representing the peak of various techniques before the slow but steady advancement of computer-generated imagery ...

It took three special effects companies to come up with the first instance of computer-animated water in a feature film, complicated by the need for Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio’s character to ...

Your normal computer can maybe get by with as little as 8 GB of RAM, but media files take up huge amounts of space, and you don’t want to keep pulling those from your hard drive.

Though they were less advanced, the early days of special effects were still the cutting edge of technology for the time. Film in general was entirely novel, and experimenting with it to achieve ...

Matt Shakman has given a blunt response to anyone who's reacted negatively to The Fantastic Four: First Steps ' visual effects (VFX).

A quick thinker: Above all, special-effects artists are highly adaptable, with the ability to “switch gears quickly,” “be flexible” and “go with the flow,” Stewart said.

The first movie to use computer-generated imagery (CGI) was "Westworld." The process, which involves rendering special effects on a computer rather than physically, has only become more prevalent ...

Practical effects in movies will not die!(Image credit: Paramount) Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) One of the most appealing aspects of the Mission: Impossible movies is their intense action ...