Ever since the advent of CGI, genre movies — sci-fi, fantasy, and horror films, in particular — have enjoyed an exponential leap forward in terms of their ability to depict all manner of imaginative ...

As far as the Mount Rushmore of in-camera effects of all time goes, it’d be hard not to turn the whole mountain into a giant shrine to Peter Jackson’s original Lord of the Rings trilogy. There are ...

The two-time Oscar nominee breaks down the wide-angle aesthetic, in-camera effects and bold amber-and-steel-blue palette behind del Toro’s bold take on the monster movie classic. By Scott Roxborough ...

For more than ten years, independent filmmakers were told that visual effects would make their films look as good as those made by studios. Digital tools got cheaper, compositing software got easier ...