"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 ...

It all started with a tag on Instagram. Jesse Richards, fresh out of college in Iowa, had moved to Los Angeles in winter 2018. With dreams of one day shooting music videos, he began direct messaging ...

Sometimes studios issue directives that when it comes to marketing a film, “there will be no discussion of VFX. … We don’t want to overshadow the actors,” says one industry vet. By Carolyn Giardina ...

When to use VFX in your indie production, and how to plan and prep for it effectively to maximise your budget and make sure every dollar you spend is up there on the screen. There is no doubt that VFX ...

We all kind of think we know what VFX looks like - or at least what bad VFX looks like. We can often feel when computer-generated imagery clashes with the visual language of a film's world and is too ...

In its original form, the movies have always been about illusions. Unlike many other art form, movies strive hard to fool the audience into believing what they're seeing, and nothing has exemplified ...

Los Angeles real-time vfx studio Beyond-FX has been acquired by Singapore-based video gaming giant Virtuos, which is looking to expand its portfolio to include real-time vfx, an increasingly ...

James Cameron says the movie industry needs to find ways to make films more affordable. According to him, the theatrical business is not doing as well as it used to. "The theatrical business is ...