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.

The Visual Effects Society revealed its 2026 VES Honors recipients, who have profoundly impacted the craft and technology of ...

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 ...

Selected by the VES Board of Directors, these distinguished honorees join a legacy of their peers who have profoundly ...

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 ...

He also worked on 'Lethal Weapon' and 'Fast & Furious' films and won three Technical Achievement Awards, one for an invention called the ‘Sweeney Gun.’ By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Matt Sweeney, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...