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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1940’s , special effects creator Lawrence W. Butler combined a blue screen with a traveling matte, pioneering the modern use of blue-screening as a technique to separate actors from backgrounds.

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 ...

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 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 ...

When visual-effects ace Dennis Muren read the “Star Wars” script, he says, “”I just thought, ‘This is impossible.’” Now, those dazzling images are taken for granted.