Special Effects

Tom Savini is one of the greatest special effects make-up artists ever—a master of masks, creatures, prosthetics,…

“Let’s go fly some more, past the planet Mandalore.” How did Jon Favreau manage to get so many bounty hunters…

Practical effects used to be the only way of doing things. If you wanted a cool image on screen, you had to build it…

It’s not hard to pick out all the visual effects shots in movies like Avengers: Infinity War or Ready Player One,…

Digital tools like 3D animation and motion capture helped revolutionize the visual effects industry, but there’s…

Long gone are the days when holiday revelers were satisfied with fake potato-flake snow or stop-motion puppets for…

Even knowing they’re robots, watching Westworld’s hosts go under the knife for repairs was even more gruesome than…

A huge part of why the Predator franchise is still relevant is the work of Stan Winston and his team. Their…

Have you seen this video of a very human-looking robot walking up a driveway? It’s gotten a lot of people online…

It’s a technique that’s often used for flashback sequences in movies when an older actor plays a much younger…

Arthur C. Clarke said “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” which seems like a…

Long before aliens and unusual scifi creatures were realized with pixels and processors, characters like Star Wars’…

Ego revealing the truth about Star-Lord’s mom is one of the saddest scenes in the entire Marvel film universe, but…

If you haven’t had a chance to check out Netflix’s reboot of the campy ‘60s scifi classic, Lost in Space, you might…

Even though we know every last frame came out of a giant rack of computers, Coco is no less spectacular to watch.…

Aardman Animations is one of only a few studios keeping the art of stop-motion animation alive. But for its latest…

When Hela destroyed Thor’s hammer near the beginning of Thor: Ragnarok, we knew we were in for some serious shit.…

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence have made it easier than ever to swap someone’s face into a video,…

If you thought we were still a few years away from human actors believably being replaced by digital replicas, we’re…

As fascinating as a behind-the-scenes look at the making of your favorite film or TV show can often be, if you’re…