A special effects artist and cinematographer, he also worked on “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “Tron,” and took a detour to ...

And this is where special effects come to play in the art of filmmaking. But what are “special effects,” really? It’s a term more loaded and generalized than it might first appear to be ...

Special effects are obviously important for so many movies of various genres, even if they probably shouldn’t be the sole reason you watch a film (with some exceptions… like, maybe Avatar).

Though they may seem a recent phenomenon, special-effects driven movies have been with us since the dawn of cinema. From the moment filmmakers realized that the camera and the editing room offered ...

Today, movie effects are mostly done in CGI, especially if they’re of the death-defying type. [Tyler Bell] shows us how they shot actors with arrows before CGI. Almost every medieval movie has ...