A Master of Fine Arts in Special Effects Animation typically prepares students for a career in Special Effects Animation by offering advanced courses in Modeling, Animation, and Computer Graphics ...

School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents After School Special, the College’s annual showcase of some of its most accomplished alumni across a wide range of filmmaking arts. This year’s festival will ...

It’s true, on the most elemental level, that all one really needs to “make a movie” is a camera and a subject to point it at. Since the advent of the motion picture camera, people have been capturing ...

George Lucas looks at the Death Star. (Sunset Boulevard / Getty) Ever since I read media scholar Julie Turnock’s The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light & Magic and the Rendering of Realism, I haven’t ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...

Ross Johnson writes about television, film, and literature for Lifehacker. He has a degree in political science from the University of Rochester and has previously been a legal writer and editor for ...

"Ghost in the Shell" is one of the year's most visually stunning films. Scarlett Johansson stars as a cybernetic cop whose human brain and robotic body blur the line between humanity and technology.

Drexel University’s major in Animation & Visual Effects (VFX), housed in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, is a full-time undergraduate program that prepares students for ...