Visual Effects

Skulls, Static, and Mannequins Heads

Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Video, Computer Graphics, Trippy, Shiniji Inamoto, Video Art, Weird, Visual Effects, Graphics, Japanese Art, Digital Art, Motion Feel, 3d Modeling, Arts News

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...

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The Real Wizards of Oz Deserve Better Treatment

Eric Roth | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Visual Effects, Film Industry Unions, Film Industry, Visual Effects Artists, Unions, Film Union, Hollywood, Los Angeles News
Eric Roth

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.

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WATCH: Bar Designed By The Oscar-Winning Creator of 'Alien'

Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: HR Giger, Bars, Academy Awards, Sculpture, Visual Effects, Hr Giger Museum, Aliens, Bar, Surrealism, The Oscars, Hr Giger Bar, Drinking Alcohol, Ridley Scott, Museums, Alcohol, Oscars, Arts News

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...

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WATCH: Black Swan Visual Effects Techniques Revealed

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Doobybrain, Special Effects, Visual Effects, Ballet, Post-Production, Black Swan, Natalie Portman, Arts News

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 ...

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Feds Sues Lucasfilm for Undermining VFX Artists

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ilm, Film Industry, Ed Catmull, Visual Effects, Union, John Lassiter, George Lucas, Iatse, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Vfx, Entertainment News
Lee Stranahan

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.

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Give Megan Fox's Transformers Money To Artists Who Deserve It

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Megan Fox, Film Industry, Time Magazine, Shia LaBeouf, Visual Effects, Sex Tapes, Sex Tape, Tranformers, Transformers 3, Industrial-Light-and-Magic, Michael Bay, Entertainment News
Lee Stranahan

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.

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Open Letter To James Cameron: Fairness For Visual Effects Artists

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Visual Effects Society, Oscar, The Academy Awards, Terminator 2, Open Letter, Star Trek Movie, Academy Awards, Avatar, Cgi, Animated Films, Visual Effects, James Cameron Avatar, The Oscars, China, James Cameron Movie, Animation, Star Trek, Oscar Nominees, District 9, Working Conditions, Workplace, Transformation, James Cameron, Oscars, G.I. Joe, Unions, Censorship, Chinese Censorship, Hollywood, Nerds, Entertainment News
Lee Stranahan

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.

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WATCH: The Amazing (Oscar Nominated) Effects Of Benjamin Button

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lee Stranahan, Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Visual Effects, David Fincher, Film, Digital Domain, Movies, Behind the Scenes, Video, Entertainment News
Lee Stranahan

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.

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