Digital tools like 3D animation and motion capture helped revolutionize the visual effects industry, but there’s still…
The Porgs have invaded Star Wars at the box office, they’ve invaded it in the world of merchandising, and now, they’re…
Whether you loved or hated Ready Player One, odds are you were still amazed by the second challenge—yes, that…
The visual effects breakdown reels continue to pour out of Hollywood as we get closer to the Academy Awards in March,…
It turns out, building a better King Kong for his latest cinematic adventure requires making him a damned dirty ape.
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If there’s anything Star Wars fans know about Gareth Edwards, it’s that he’s a very hands-on director. A recent…
The Oscars are right around the corner, and Industrial Light and Magic has been working hard to show off its contenders…
The Oscars are a little over a week away, which means we’re finally getting a bunch of peeks at the visual effects…
Industrial Light and Magic isn’t done showing us how the delicious sausage gets made. Its latest Rogue One visual…
The best visual effects are the ones we don’t even see. In Rogue One, we know Tarkin isn’t physically there and that…
By now, we’ve talked our heads off about the ILM recreations of 1977 Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher in Rogue One.…
With the opening weekend of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story finally behind us, there are a great many things to talk…
Say what you will about the rest of Duncan Jones’ Warcraft movie, it did a pretty incredible job of bringing the…
The only thing more impressive than invisible visual effects of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is seeing the work that…
We show a lot of VFX reels at io9, because we always think it’s cool to see how much work goes into making fantasies…
This video is freaking great. Made by the team at RocketJump Film School, it makes a strong argument that while people…
Now that the Oculus Rift has made virtual reality not suck, countless companies are lining up to produce…
Industrial Light and Magic has a proud heritage stretching back to the original Star Wars. And to celebrate, they’ve…
For the past 40 years, Industrial Light & Magic has cooked up the special effects for countless movies and basically…
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