Digital effects had only barely been invented when James Cameron decided to meld practical effects and the new tech, and made his sequel bad guy a CGI shape-changer. The body-morphing result sparked a ...

It’s never been cheaper or more accessible to learn how to do advanced special effects. With a laptop, a copy of Blender, and some YouTube tutorials, you can get started playing around with CGI ...

Admittedly, we’ve gotten a little jaded. Digital effects are so omnipresent in our blockbusters that we’ve come to expect the impossible from movies. Our sense of awe has been, perhaps, a bit dulled, ...

In Death Becomes Her, Hawn and Streep play ex-best friends turned middle-aged rivals, who discover a potion that can keep them eternally young. There is, however, a catch: their bodies cannot be ...

Real estate computer vision platform startup Matterport is set to acquire Arraiy, an AI startup aiming to automate special effects processing in film. Arraiy raised $13.9 million according to ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The first movie to use computer-generated imagery (CGI) was "Westworld." The process, which involves rendering special effects on a computer ...

Writer/director/producer Christopher Nolan raised many eyebrows in 2022 when he teased a cinematic recreation of the Manhattan Project's Trinity detonation without a single frame of CG-generated ...

"Ghost in the Shell" is one of the year's most visually stunning films. Scarlett Johansson stars as a cybernetic cop whose human brain and robotic body blur the line between humanity and technology.