Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For more than ten years, independent filmmakers were told that visual effects would make their films look as good as those made by ...

Writer/director James Cameron and special effects artist Stan Winston decided to make the Alien Queen a puppet instead of an animatronic for safety reasons. After the director sketched out what he ...

CGI can build entire planets now, but bigger does not always mean better. Some older movies still look incredible because their effects had texture and real-world messiness baked in. Models, ...