For more than a decade, Jordan Catracchia has been working at the cutting edge of Hollywood visual effects, helping bring some of the most ambitious cinematic worlds of the modern era to life.

One of the challenges in f/x has long been to match the lighting of the special effect, be it a model, a miniature, or a digital element, to the live-action “plates” for the same scene. This year ...

Learn how to create a glowing light edge rays shine effect in Adobe After Effects. This step-by-step tutorial shows you how ...

Industrial Light & Magic turns 50 this year. In those five decades, the company has continued to push the envelope with groundbreaking visual effects, from the T-1000 in “Terminator 2,” Davy Jones ...

The honorary society issued a rare rebuke after The Hollywood Reporter highlighted the trend of VFX work going unrecognized during the marketing of major tentpoles. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor The ...

Julio is a Senior Author for Collider. He studied History and International Relations at university, but found his calling in cultural journalism. When he isn't writing, Julio also teaches English at ...

“Light & Magic” is of course a trip down memory lane about movies people love (beginning with “Star Wars”) and the wizardry behind making them. Yet this six-part docuseries from Lawrence Kasdan, a ...

'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' leads the animated feature race with six noms. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor Gareth Edward’s futuristic sci-fi movieThe Creator, with visual effects work ...

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 ...