Before CGI took over everything, movie magic was made with puppets, makeup, miniatures, and some wildly creative problem-solving. Today’s post features iconic behind-the-scenes special effects shots ...

Fantasy movies rank among the most impressive-looking film genres, and with good reason. They allow creative minds to truly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From the incredible helicarrier crash in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” to the realistic motion-capture-driven apes in "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes," this year brought us some unbelievable ...