It wasn't that long ago that CGI in movies was considered 'cool' and had the respect and admiration of the general public. Back in the 1990s and 2000s, it inspired an entire generation of filmmakers ...

DEADLINE: As production comes back, there have been concerns about staging crowd scenes, and the possibility of scaling back on background actors on set. Those in production will increasingly look to ...

A visual effects artist has revealed the reason why special effects in movies are so much “worse” now. Rassoul Edji, a lead VFX artist in the film industry, shared his thoughts on the reasons behind ...

Director J.J. Abrams and his crew faced an almost impossible task in creating The Rise of Skywalker: How do you tell a story with an iconic character at its core when that actor who plays that ...

It's not obvious, but Alfonso Cuaron's masterpiece is filled with CGI. VFX supervisor Aaron Weintraub walks us through where those secret effects are hiding. Jennifer Bisset was a senior editor for ...

You really can't believe what you see these days. And that's even more true for historically-set dramas where to recreate authentic 360 degree retro environments would be so expensive as to severly ...

VFX artists are overworked and underappreciated in the film industry, with their work often going unrecognized or used to disparage the art form. Marvel Studios is one of the worst offenders, relying ...

the practitioners of the fine arts of visual effects and CGI have always had a Holy Grail: the creation of digital characters who seem so real that audiences will be fooled into believing they’re ...

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the practitioners of the fine arts of visual effects and CGI have always had a Holy Grail: the creation of digital characters who seem so real that audiences will be fooled into believing they’re ...