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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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.

George Lucas looks at the Death Star. (Sunset Boulevard / Getty) Ever since I read media scholar Julie Turnock’s The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light & Magic and the Rendering of Realism, I haven’t ...

From Hollywood blockbusters to the design of aircraft cockpits, the visual-effects industry relies on tracing the path of light to create scenes that do not and may never exist Optical physics From ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...