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What is The VFX Predictinator?  Start here. Even though The Predictinator failed at predicting "Ex Machina" two years ago ( p...

The nominees for the 90th Academy Awards have been announced. As always, the nominees were determined by the visual effects branch of the A...

The nominees for the 16th Visual Effects Society Awards were announced today, and “Blade Runner 2049” and “War for the Planet of the Apes”...

Today, the visual effects industry has many issues. ▪️uneven market due to film subsidies (free money) to studios ▪️6 major clients (soon ...

On Twitter, I looked at an amazing stunt from 1985, and pondered how we would execute the same shot design today. [ View the story "D...

This was a fun one. On Twitter, I talked about this trick shot from "Superman". I hope you like it. Analyzing a Shot from ...

I was thrilled to be a guest on the Defocused podcast, episode #146. Our main topic was the Quentin Tarantino film "Inglourious Ba...

I was thrilled to be a guest on the Auralnauts podcast. I'm a huge fan of their work , and we had a terrific discussion about film, h...

click for larger For years I've discussed the slow death of the PG-rated live-action film, and the ascendancy of the PG-13 rated l...

Congratulations to the entire visual effects team behind "The Jungle Book" for their Academy Award win for Best Visual Effects! (...

"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" was the top earner of this year's visual effects Oscar nominees, at $1.0B global box office ...

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 t...

What is The VFX Predictinator?  Start here. After bloviating in two giant posts about the reasons we might have incorrectly predicted...

On February 7, "The Jungle Book" won five top awards at the 15th VES Awards, held by The Visual Effects Society. "The ...

What is The VFX Predictinator?  Start here. In Part 1, we discussed the reasons why it was so shocking that “Ex Machina” won the visual...