Trends in special effects are always changing, and ever since the jaw-dropping effects of Jurassic Park and Terminator 2, ...

Ever since the invention of computer-generated effects, there have been ways to use them well and ways to completely overdo ...

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 ...

Ross Johnson writes about television, film, and literature for Lifehacker. He has a degree in political science from the University of Rochester and has previously been a legal writer and editor for ...

"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.

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 ...

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 ...