Gravity’s Vfx supervisor Jim Rider has always been as transfixed by the ways films get made as by the pics themselves. “When I was a kid, I remember learning about how the effects in ‘Star Wars’ were ...

American Society of Cinematographers collection, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences A half-century ago when George Lucas decided to make “Star Wars,” a core visual ...

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Microsoft is no longer making the Kinect, as Co.Design first reported. The motion-sensing and voice-recognizing device for Xbox One and Windows will disappear from store shelves once the current stock ...

How did “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” a short created in one person’s bedroom, become a full-scale, stop-motion feature film? Meticulously. By Jason Bailey When the director Dean Fleischer Camp ...

A half-century ago when George Lucas decided to make “Star Wars,” a core visual effects team was handed a sizable challenge: Figure out a believable way to transport audiences to a galaxy far, far ...