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We’ve all heard about movies filmed in IMAX, or heard in movie trailers “see it in IMAX” and then looked at a series of confusing diagrams d...

It's time for the  Awesomest Oscar Pool Ballot In The History Of Oscar Pool Ballots. Every year  I create a special ballot based on a ty...

From the "After The Hunt" VFX Breakdown, by Frame by Frame view full breakdown on YouTube When people see a relatively innocuous s...

Reader warning: there's gonna be a lot of pretend puke photos in this post. If you've fired up HBO Max recently, you've probably...

One of the best features of “Halloween Kills” (2021) is the collection of flashback sequences which show the rest of the night Michael Myers...

Vanity Fair asked me if I wanted to talk about visual effects in a video, and it was my great honor to show off some of ILM’s terrific work ...

I've been telling artists for decades that it's not always the best idea to scale up a synthetic lens flare when the light source is...

"There's a storm coming in!"

  It was back in 2018 when I was a guest on a member special for Reconcilable Differences ... and seven years later they asked me back! RecD...

I recently had the pleasure of re-watching John McTiernan’s “Predator” (1987) for the umpteenth time with someone who had never seen the mov...

  Lighter Darker, EP20 and Show Notes Lighter Darker, The ILM Podcast’s first season comes to a close with Episode 20, our Lens Flare Extrav...