The 1990s were the last hurrah of filmstock being used, but perhaps the biggest champion in showing the promise of CGI in the production of movies. 1995’s Toy Story would be the first fully CG ...

1988 The team won a Sci-Tech Academy Award for the ‘Morf’ software developed for Willow. 1989 The Abyss’ CG watery pseudopod wows audiences The 1980s was the decade that ushered in a computing ...

Onscreen, CGI can be so dazzling, and the artists are no doubt extremely talented. However, sometimes, it seems like movies and TV have become over-reliant on it, making practical effects seem even ...

In subreddits and X threads, commenters seem to be railing more and more against terrible visual effects and wondering why modern films and TV shows look so bad. But is that actually true? Let’s flip ...

William Smith is a freelance writer currently living in the Midwest with his wife and daughter, where he spends too much time watching movies and then writing about them. He doesn't read your hurtful ...

Alyssa De Leo is a freelance writer based in Melbourne, Australia. She has studied both media and screenwriting, and has had her work screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival. She loves ...

Computer Generated Imagery dates all the way back to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigowhere the visionary director utilized abstract ...