Around this same period every year is an amazing time for visual effects breakdowns. That’s because, of course, we’re nearing the end of awards season – the Visual Effects Society Awards have just ...

ILM (a.k.a. Industrial Light & Magic) are the movie magicians behind the special effects for films like Captain America: Civil War, Jurassic World, Tomorrowland, and Pacific Rim, and they’ve been ...

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X-Men: Days of Future Past holds a very special distinction for its franchise: it is the first X-Men film nominated for the Academy Award in Best Visual Effects. Here we celebrate the film by sharing ...

Star Wars: The Force Awakens marketed its heavy reliance on “practical” — read: physically done — effects, but the truth is, the film was also loaded with cutting edge special effects made on ...

This is impressive. While Neill Blomkamp is off working on his version of an Alien movie, let's try not to forget that Chappie was released this year. Whether you liked the film or not, there's a lot ...

Watching VFX breakdowns is always enchanting. ILM has released their full 4-minute video showing their work on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. "The history of ILM leads all the way back to 1975 and ...

Weta Digital has put out a new visual effects breakdown video that showcases the brilliant work that their digital artists did on Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. For the ...

Shade VFX is the visual effects company that earned an Emmy-nomination in the “Outstanding Special Visual Effects” category earlier this year for their work on Netflix’s Daredevil, so it makes sense ...

Warning: mild spoilers ahead. The last two shows on Game of Thrones season six were particularly spectacle-laden, so the show's VFX houses were busier than ever. Mackevision and Rising Sun Pictures ...