The term “movie magic” may seem like an exaggeration, but there’s a fair amount of wizardry that goes into making your favorite films and TV shows. Often, CGI is front and center in bringing a project ...

'Dune' used a combination of real and computer-generated effects. (Warner Bros/Everett Collection) As widely anticipated, “Dune” won the Oscar for visual effects, with the team’s expertise on display ...

From Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Indiana Jones, Pablo Helman has helped bring a lot of big effects movies to the silver screen. The latest project for the Academy Award-nominated visual effects ...

It’s true, on the most elemental level, that all one really needs to “make a movie” is a camera and a subject to point it at. Since the advent of the motion picture camera, people have been capturing ...

Special effects artist Joe Castro has made a name for himself working on low-budget horror movies. Credit: Courtesy Photo / Joe Castro Joe Castro can point to the exact moment he fell in love with ...

A movie doesn’t have to be a special effects extravaganza to be worth watching, but it seems like we’re increasingly uninterested in going to the theater to see one if they’re not. And if we’re going ...