For the 35th anniversary of the film, several founding members of ILM’s CG department got together to discuss the technical ...

The world of CGI has completely transformed modern filmmaking, allowing filmmakers to create characters, creatures, and entire worlds that would have been impossible to achieve just a few decades ago.

CGI can build entire planets now, but bigger does not always mean better. Some older movies still look incredible because their effects had texture and real-world messiness baked in. Models, ...

Directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller wanted to balance CGI effects with real sets and physical elements as much as possible. Reading time 3 minutes Special effects are an essential part of just ...

CGI Federal will continue to support the Environmental Protection Agency under a new $64 million contract with EPA's office of the chief financial officer. The company will support the CFO and the ...

The Substance chose real practical effects over CGI to make its body horror feel disturbing, physical, and impossible to ignore. Director Coralie Fargeat wanted the transformations to feel tangible, ...

He and Douglas Trumbull went from creating a short film for the 1964 World’s Fair to working many exacting months on the Stanley Kubrick classic: The film "absolutely would not have happened without ...

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 ...

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the John Lasseter film Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated feature film, we’re taking a look at early CGI milestones in the days before Toy Story. But ...

CGI Federal has secured a $213.8 million contract from the Department of State to support book print personalization facilities for U.S. passports. The contract, announced on Tuesday via SAM.gov, ...

Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is in Venice this weekend premiering one of his lifelong passion projects, Frankenstein. But as often as we cover Del Toro and his work – he’s long been an ...

Academy Award–winning actor Christoph Waltz is stepping into gothic horror in Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming adaptation of Frankenstein, but it isn’t just the story that has him captivated. In a recent ...