LOS ANGELES -- When it comes to special effects in movies, the folks at ILM, Industrial Light & Magic, are considered superstars. The story of how this company came to life is being played out in a ...

The 2010 Disney film "Secretariat" brought the Pixel Magic visual effects team to Louisiana. The good news? They're still here, making magic. Since 2015, Pixel Magic has operated out of Celtic Studios ...

Have you ever watched an old movie with amateur special effects and laughed how ridiculous they look? Well, we guess the movie industry is the one that is laughing now, because nowadays special ...

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 ...

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Thanks to the magic of youth-restoring software, stars like Harrison Ford and Jennifer Connelly can turn back the clock to reprise old roles and flash back to their characters' pasts The action ...

Though they may seem a recent phenomenon, special-effects driven movies have been with us since the dawn of cinema. From the moment filmmakers realized that the camera and the editing room offered the ...