The FX-1 is a feedback control device that is designed to expand and enhance the capabilities of commercial special effects processors. All manufacturers claim that their processors are the best on ...

Sinking the Titanic is no small task, and for one of Cameron's most memorable works, he employed every trick in the book. Titanic enraptured audiences upon release, as beyond the love story at its ...

Reprinted by permission of "The Big Frame." Distributed by Imax Corporation, Special Effects reveals the method behind the magic of the movies, and features state-of-the art effects created ...

NOVA: Tell us about your interest in special effects. BURTT: Well, my interest in special effects goes back a lot further that my professional career. When I made films as a child, the very first film ...

He also worked on 'Lethal Weapon' and 'Fast & Furious' films and won three Technical Achievement Awards, one for an invention called the ‘Sweeney Gun.’ By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Matt Sweeney, the ...

For as long as Star Wars has been around, fans have made their own fan movies with toys using stop motion or by dressing up as characters and adding cheesy homemade special effects. But wouldn't it be ...

It was all building, of course, on the earth-shaking work done by George Lucas’s Star Wars just the year before. Special effects had always been around, to be sure; anyone who’d seen a Georges Méliès ...

You've heard Carl Kasell imitate the newsmakers of the week, but did you know he could mimic a ray gun and a vuvuzela? Here's a collection of Carl's Special FX. From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT ...