Tim McGovern, the visual effects artist and Oscar winner for his work on the 1990 film Total Recall, has died. He was 68. McGovern’s wife, Reena NeGandhi, shared news of her husband on social media.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a recent Vanity Fair video, Industrial Light & Magic’s compositing supervisor, Todd Vaziri, breaks down his often unnoticed art ...

The production approach of Masters of the Universe demonstrates how a director can successfully shield visual effects artists from intense online scrutiny. The movie leveraged extensive stop-motion ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sixteen visual effects artists who work on pre-recorded digital shorts for “Saturday Night Live” have unionized with IATSE and won ...

In his 3D work, Kendall Dirks ’25 (3D digital design) maintains a photorealistic style that reflects side-by-side interests in visual effects and photography. His zeal for photography dates back to ...

Contributing to the creation of James Cameron's Avatar series, visual effects artists based in the United States have chosen to unionize following a National Labor Relations Board election. LOS ...

A group of visual effects artists who work on the Avatar movies have voted to unionize. Fifty-seven out of 88 eligible VFX workers at TCF US Productions 27 (a Walt Disney Studios subsidiary) voted in ...

The world of visual effects demands technical mastery and creative problem-solving, a dual challenge Zhehao Qiao embraced as ...

The world of visual effects (VFX) has undergone a remarkable transformation with the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. These innovative solutions have democratized the creation of ...

We tend to watch a lot of sci-fi movies, traditionally the nerdiest of the nerdy cinematic pursuits. Almost across the board, these movies will have enormous computer-generated spaceships, monsters, ...

ILM’s head of compositing discusses adding all the tiny little VFX elements to already elaborate visual effects to make it all work. We tend to watch a lot of sci-fi movies, traditionally the nerdiest ...