While you were probably distracted by Blake Lively battling a shark for the lean hour and a half of James Collet-Serra‘s mid-summer delight The Shallows, you may have missed just how much seamless CGI ...

Cutting a 15-minute vfx bakeoff reel from massive spectacles like “Avatar,” “Titanic” and “King Kong” was hard enough. This year, with more entries, bakeoff reels are only 10 minutes, and that’s ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Filmmaker James Wan has not been shy about his ...

Even though it may seem like there's barely any visual effects or any CG patching in a dramatic real-world thriller like Sicario, the truth is that there's a great amount of work that goes into ...

One of our favorite movies of 2016 is Arrival, the science fiction thriller from Denis Villeneuve. Aside from a brilliant script by Eric Heisserer, the film contains stunning visuals, in part thanks ...

Buildings in the background that rotate and coffee that pours itself out of a phone — if you have come across reels that almost look magical and unreal, then you have witnessed what is known as VFX or ...

Although the Visual-Effects Bakeoff isn’t normally a news-filled part of awards season, David S. Cohen was there to report on a little bit of “Harry Potter” drama last night as the shortlisted films ...

Alert: Spoilers ahoy. There was a lot of talk about practical effects in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but make no mistake, digital dominates -- there are over 2,100 CG shots in the film out of 2,500 ...