Skulls, Static, and Mannequins Heads
Maybe we have a secret soft spot for mannequin heads or maybe it's just our favorite weird video of the week, but "Motion Feel," the latest offering f...
Maybe we have a secret soft spot for mannequin heads or maybe it's just our favorite weird video of the week, but "Motion Feel," the latest offering f...
Eric Roth | Posted 02.21.2012
While visual effects-driven films are the ones that clean up at the box office, the visual effects artists who make the magic possible often are not adequately compensated or recognized.
Posted 12.02.2011
The world of surrealist painter and Oscar-winning visual effects wizard H.R. Giger is frightening for most of us. Known for dehumanizing bio-mechanica...
Posted 05.25.2011
If you found yourself mesmerized by Black Swan's sinister sets, watching the visual effects reel may feel like waking from a hallucination. The video ...
Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011
The unions may have just gotten a Christmas present from two of the biggest, most well-known names in the worlds of animation and visual effects.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011
It's time for the studios to take care of the people who are making them money. It's time to stop underpaying the hard working talent that drives profits and overpaying the spoiled and irrelevant.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011
Visual effects artists typically work with no contract, no paid vacation, no benefits, and often no paid overtime. And because of the nature of the work health problems are common.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011
I realized I'd been tricked by Button's digital performance, so I spoke to a number of other working visual effects people and almost all of them were fooled, too.
Posted 02.03.2012