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 ...

Ross Johnson writes about television, film, and literature for Lifehacker. He has a degree in political science from the University of Rochester and has previously been a legal writer and editor for ...

George Lucas looks at the Death Star. (Sunset Boulevard / Getty) Ever since I read media scholar Julie Turnock’s The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light & Magic and the Rendering of Realism, I haven’t ...

Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan created computer techniques that remade animation, special effects, virtual reality and artificial intelligence. By Cade Metz SAN FRANCISCO — Pat Hanrahan was a young ...

Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Through nearly nine decades and almost as many major studio movies, an enormous, tortured ape has moved the dial on special ...

Scarlett Johansson's new film blurs the line between humanity and technology. The effects are a dazzling combination of live-action and cutting-edge CGI. Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor ...

For years one of the highlights at the SIGGRAPH Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques has always been the Computer Animation Festival. The Festival is a platform for the best in ...

During the economic recession of the 1980s, Fon Davis — now famous for his miniature model designs on films such as “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and the “Star Wars” prequels — had just graduated ...