While many people in the creative industries are worrying that AI is about to steal their jobs, Oscar-winning film director James Cameron is embracing the technology. Cameron is famous for making the ...

From The Thing to Blade Runner, Aliens to Tron, these ’80s sci-fi classics prove practical effects can still outshine modern ...

While many people in the creative industries are worrying that AI is about to steal their jobs, Oscar-winning film director James Cameron is embracing the technology. Cameron is famous for making the ...

As 2024 cinema comes to a close with the Christmas holiday season, it’s also award season and time for the top contenders for the Academy Awards. One of the most interesting categories this year will ...

Brian Johnson, who has died aged 86, was an Oscar-winning visual effects maestro and modelling specialist who contributed ...

Though blockbusters are synonymous with computer imagery, dramas and art-house films rely extensively on tech magic, too. Don’t be fooled by the naturalism. By Calum Marsh A woman crosses a bustling ...

Filmmakers don't always need a big budget to deliver an effective story, and these sci-fi movies prove just how great ...

Gareth Edwards’ The Creator is a beautiful film that, filmed on a modest budget, costs around a third of what the typical effects-heavy film might cost these days. An original sci-fi film (rare enough ...

It was a typical day on the set of Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” and a dead mime was screaming. The most unsettling problem? The actor‘s tongue still had a visible and decidedly not-ghostly ...

Discover 17 famous CGI characters before and after visual effects. See how actors, digital animation, and VFX transformed ...

James Fisher-Clegg is a freelance writer from Vancouver, Washington. He graduated from Eastern Washington University where he earned a degree in Film. In high school, he discovered his love of ...

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 ...