"The phrase is: 'grounded in reality.'" There is a popular trend within Hollywood nowadays to promote the idea that a movie has "no CGI" or limited VFX shots in it, as a way of saying it's pure and ...

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 ...

1988 The team won a Sci-Tech Academy Award for the ‘Morf’ software developed for Willow. 1989 The Abyss’ CG watery pseudopod wows audiences The 1980s was the decade that ushered in a computing ...

From the Barbie producers removing the blue screens used during production from BTS footage to Tom Cruise’s insistence that “There is no CGI on these planes!” on Top Gun: Maverick, CGI denial is ...

Scott Beggs of Film School Rejects has had it with fans who make CGI and VFX the scapegoat for all the ills of big-budget Hollywood movies. Sparked by an inane fanboy comment about the upcoming ...

There are no superheroes in “Greyhound,” no CGI aliens or monsters that are commonplace in your typical effects-heavy spectacle. But in creating the Tom Hanks World War II epic, the visual effects ...

He and Douglas Trumbull went from creating a short film for the 1964 World’s Fair to working many exacting months on the ...

Sometimes technological advancements take us backwards. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When we say that VFX were better in the ...