Movies Where Practical Effects Beat Modern CGI CGI can build entire planets now, but bigger does not always mean better. Some ...

The superhero movies of the MCU, the DCU, and other franchises occasionally make perfect use of CGI visuals. Ever since the movies of the MCU helped catapult the genre to the peak of the box office, ...

Bad CGI ages fast. Great CGI tends to survive because filmmakers know when to use it, when to hide it, and when to let practical effects do the heavy lifting. These 10 older movies did not rely on ...

The best CG movies of the 90s set new standards and trends for VFX that would be taken up by future filmmakers, just as the best CGI movies of the 80s did previously. The films on my list are not ...

Disney has no shortage of animated hits, but not every film it distributes gets the recognition it deserves. In 2000, the studio released Dinosaur, a visually ambitious project that redefined what CGI ...

Shots that could have been practical (meaning, not CGI) were done with pixels for no apparent reason, with often ghastly and comical results. This is the first movie that comes to mind when we think ...

Superhero movies are one of the most dominant forces in modern cinema, with their huge big-screen spectacles consistently drawing impressive box office earnings. As the popularity of superhero movies ...

Computer Generated Imagery dates all the way back to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo where the visionary director utilized abstract graphics and imagery for the title's opening credits sequence. In the ...

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The 2016 HBO series "Westworld" was one of the most popular TV shows upon its release, as evidenced by its 57 award wins and 214 nominations throughout its run. The series earned a 2017 Emmy for ...

Director Duncan Jones has defended the use of CGI in modern films. The Warcraft filmmaker took to Twitter to say that computer graphics are a "tool like any other" and "can be done well". Ian West/PA ...