One of the amazing things about The Avengers was just how seamless a lot of the CG cityscapes
How the Oscars proved Hollywood is killing the VFX industry
While ABC showed viewers the glitz and glamor of Sunday night's Academy Awards from the red carpet and inside the Dolby Theater, across the street there was a very different show going on. Members of the visual effects (VFX) industry gathered on Hollywood Boulevard to raise awareness about the financial hardships faced …
Award-winning work from the next generation of concept artists
Every season, the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood picks the best work from its students in areas from 3D environments to creature design (like this creature, pictured, by Maggie Toh). We've got a special preview of winners from Gnomon's summer session, showcasing new artists who could soon be producing…
Mark Strong wore full Sinestro makeup and prosthetics on the Green…
Green Lantern looks like it's all CG and motion capture, all the time. But one of the main characters in the film is wearing full practical makeup and prosthetics, at least on his face.
Primer's Shane Carruth working on Rian Johnson's Looper
The director of one of the best time-travel films of all time is doing visual effects work on Rian Johnson's time-travel-and-hit-men movie Looper, according to Looper's Twitter feed. Primer's Shane Carruth is helping with (what else?) time-travel sequences. [BadAss Digest]
This Is How the Star Trek Warp Jump Evolved
From Star Trek: The Motion Picture to Star Trek 2009; from the first Enterprise and Birds of Prey to the NCC-1701-E and back to the Enterprise: This video shows all the warp jump effect types in all the movies. Engage!
Witness the fantastical legacy of Ray Harryhausen
You've already admired Ray Harryhausen's breathtaking stop-motion animation and creature design in films like The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad and Jason And The Argonauts. But now, if you're in London, you can see his incredible work up close and personal.
7 cool special effects ILM created for The Last Airbender
The Last Airbender will carve a new path in visual effects, showing you things no movie ever has: water tentacles and gusts of fire. We visited Industrial Light and Magic, and saw what every other movie will be copying soon.
100 Years of Visual Effects From Kong To Tron, And On
This compilation of visual effects over the past century is thrilling enough to make even the biggest CG critic misty-eyed. While it misses the Matrix, this video (compiled for students) certainly hits all the other greats. [via First Showing]
Secrets Of The CGI In Cloverfield
Cloverfield was best known for its shaky-cam handheld amateur-documentary style. But it actually deserves more props for its ambitious and sweeping scenes of New York in flames and rubble, which appeared in the background of almost every shot. Now a "showreel" from digital effects designers Double Negative shows how a…
