Alita: Battle Angel hits US theaters this weekend. It is a live action adaptation of a popular manga comic series, Battle Angel Alita. Dalton Duong had an opportunity to travel to Wellington, New ...

LONDON — With Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman" expected to battle "Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood" and "1917" for the best picture Oscar in February, all eyes are on the special effects team that made ...

From recreating a real-world disaster to crafting a fantasy masterpiece in stop-motion animation, last year’s crop of movies continued the raise the bar for visual effects — particularly those films ...

LONDON (AP) — With Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” expected to battle “Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood” and “1917” for the best picture Oscar in February, all eyes are on the special effects team that ...

Admittedly, we’ve gotten a little jaded. Digital effects are so omnipresent in our blockbusters that we’ve come to expect the impossible from movies. Our sense of awe has been, perhaps, a bit dulled, ...

Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Rest assured, Muppet purists: You won’t see any computer-generated Kermits, Gonzos, or Fozzies in The Muppets, which opened in theaters last week. Every ...

Film effects specialist Sony Pictures Imageworks has released five digital image-manipulation software tools under open-source licenses. While Imageworks has released other open-source software in the ...

If you’ve ever complained about the dominance of digital special effects in modern Hollywood movies, Werewolves was made for you. The new action-horror movie, now available for digital rental or ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Weta Digital is going all-in on AWS, leveraging the proven performance of the ...

As a lesson in ancient history, the new movie 300 is problematic. Its biases and inaccuracies are already fodder for scholars. As a spectacle, however, things are different. Spartans and Persians meet ...

When people ask what their first hardware synth should be, I often recommend Arturia’s MicroFreak. Unless you absolutely have your heart set on an analog instrument, I think it offers the most ...