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I am writing a monograph based on a course I taught in the previous century at NYU.  Maybe it will never get done (likely) or maybe it will ...

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

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

Part 3 of a series. When Brian was nailed to the cross in the 1st century Roman province of Judea, a thief is alleged to have told him ...

This is part two of a series on recent events in the area of international finance and government subsidies that affect the business of v...

It would seem that the art of insulting people and character assassination has gone downhill in recent years with nowhere near the eleganc...

When life imitates art, one must ask how the artists knew what they knew and when they knew it. Did they just make a lucky but inspired ...

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

When I declined to attend the SIGGRAPH 2013 Keynote Speech, a friend was surprised and concerned. The Keynote speech was a collection o...

As we move into the new world of digital cinema is it time to embrace modern aesthetics and criteria of excellence and move away from the...

The online version of the New York Review of Books (August 2013) has an essay by Martin Scorsese about the history and meaning of film.  ...

If one wants to know the very essence of Hollywood creativity, look no further than Ender's Game . It is the very height of what ma...

Richard Yuricich, ASC is one of my favorite people in the world.   Here he is on the set at Pinewood and in London on the movie Effects Ho...

Someone has posted over 1,000 production stills from the first Star Wars film on imgur. http://imgur.com/a/0RmF7#58 They ar...