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draft This post will evolve over the next week. The question of the moment is this: if you could guess how visual effects will evolve over...

This post collects a review from Joseph Goldstone of the Bakeoff Screening and my response from Facebook. Neither Joseph nor myself are ...

draft The Visual Effects Bakeoff will take place this year at the usual place (La Peer and Wilshire) on January 7, 2017 from 5:30 PM ...

This is my report on the Academy VFX Bakeoff.  This year I was accompanied by Jon Snoddy and his friend Allison.  Their presence kept me ...

(this is a draft and is in progress... send comments to michael.wahrman@gmail.com or leave a comment below). The Visual Effects Society...

These are my friends Joan Collins and Kelley Ray who were at the time representing SONY Imageworks on Starship Troopers at MASS.ILLUSION in...

[in progress 7/1/2013] There is some real content here: and it is the following.  First, that Pacific Rim is an example of a video game...

I have been observing the Visual Effects "industry" and the behavior of people in that industry since about 1980. I am constantl...

The following image was brought to my attention by Clark Anderson and has been making the rounds on the Internet.  I looked ...

[Revised 12/11/2012] The purpose of this post is to bring to your attention an example of a truly original behavior in an animal, in thi...

One of my favorite things in the world is flare. I mean flare like you might find in photography, not "flair", which is also g...

One of the weird phenomena that surrounds the tremendous "success" of visual effects, is the self-destructive documentary that d...

I regularly stumble across pictures from the real world that look fake to me.   I believe that if this picture was used in a movie, that is...

This is a spoiler alert for the Coen Brothers film, Barton Fink (1991) . Visual effects are usually used in a very simple way conceptu...