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 ...

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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 ...

EFX Ambient and Pitch Shifter-910 bring more quirky weirdness to the company’s plugin suite.

Wellington’s Wētā FX won the award for best special visual effects at the Bafta Film Awards in London this morning, for its work on Avatar: Fire and Ash. The VFX house was represented by ...

It’s true, on the most elemental level, that all one really needs to “make a movie” is a camera and a subject to point it at. Since the advent of the motion picture camera, people have been capturing ...

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 ...

Wētā FX won a BAFTA Film Award for their work on Avatar: Fire and Ash at the ceremony in London this morning (NZDT). The New Zealand VFX house was represented by Wellington’s Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon ...

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 ...

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