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[My sources in Korea tell me that the first project for Mr Hughes in his new studio will be a Bruce Beresford film about the aftermath of t...

A 1982 “convention reel” for the movie Bladerunner (1982) has appeared on Vimeo. It is very low quality, probably a transfer from the 16...

Some of you who read this blog, now or in the future, may have the misfortune of being an independent and bidding your own projects. If ...

Is there too much bad computer animation in today's movies?  Is that even possible? I continue to see people out in the world, on I...

This post is an essay in transition. When we review a year's worth of films, what criteria should we use as a basis of analysis?   ...

What should we think of excellent visual effects or other exploits of difficult technical filmmaking in the service of a bad movie? Sho...

In three previous posts we discussed the practice and mythology of underbidding a project in visual effects, something that is alleged to...

As all historians know, when the final knife goes in and the body slumps to the ground in a pool of blood, the murder victim has in fact ...

In our previous two discussions of “underbidding in visual effects” ( here  and  here ) we discussed the reasons why a facility might in...

Part one of this series is  here . In part one of our series on the “mysteries of underbidding in visual effects”, we discussed som...

This is the first in a series of posts on the psychology and process of bidding in visual effects.  In this first series, we look at the ...

I have often said on this Blog and in real life "everyone who goes into the business of writing sonnets or the short story pretty mu...

I got a reply from Siggraph about my suggestion to have other points of view on their news article about the layoffs in the visual effects i...

Here are my comments on the visual effects nominees for this year's Academy Awards. To recap, there were ten films on the long...

Tonight is the so-called Bakeoff  at the Academy for the Visual Effects nominations. The screening is for the Visual Effects subsection ...