Global Wahrman

[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...

Whenever you see a pause like this, it usually means that while many drafts of blog posts are written, there is nothing that I feel all ...

We now turn from the topic of the use of rocket launch attempts as a mood elevator to a highly related topic, "hypnotic mind control...

This post will review various space program "launch attempts" (e.g. rocket failures) in the context of the study of animation tec...

I have noticed for many years now, that the audience has started to associate computer graphics with bad visual effects. Time after tim...

As we have previously discussed, visual effects can be used for purposes beyond mere reality, but can be used to express an emotion, or th...

(This post is in progress). I miss the cold war, when not everyone was using computers to steal money and distribute pornography, and we ...

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...

[This will be one of the many posts that include details about famous effects shots that I have picked up over the years.   It is all anecd...