This is real. Hero Tech has built a retractable light saber that is using no visual effects. You cannot fight with it but it looks like the movie light saber. The two led light strips are attached to ...

Depending on what you're creating, I find Autodesk 3ds Max to be the best 3D modeling software overall for professional film and game development, while Maya and Blender stand-out as top picks for ...

The Visual Effects Market grew from USD 9.65 billion in 2024 to USD 10.83 billion in 2025. It is expected to continue growing at a CAGR of 12.39%, reaching USD 19.46 billion by 2030.

These shows prove that procedural TV doesn’t have to be one-dimensional. They offer the kind of storytelling that keeps viewers emotionally engaged rather than just passively entertained.

From left: Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe and Gerd Nefzer, winners of the best visual effects for Dune: Part Two, pose in the press room during the 97th Annual Oscars at Ovation ...

And so, I learned Blender to create some simple additions to my visual effects.” Unreal’s rollout of its Metahuman digital human animation package further kindled Dmitrii’s artistic instincts.

Data spans November 2022-January 2025Rather than witnessing an abrupt technological upheaval in visual effects and animation, we’re seeing a continuation of established trends: the global ...

The technology was developed by Physical Addon co-founder Mārtiņš Upītis, an animator and visual effects artist in Latvia who joined the production of Flow early in the film’s development.

After Effects 25.1 is the current version, with no big recent announcements. The December 2024 (25.1) release includes important fixes, and Adobe listed remaining Known issues in After Effects. New ...

The new Distance-Based Glitch Effect for Blender allows you to generate visual distortions tied to object proximity within a scene. This downloadable tool comes with a fully customizable node setup ...

JC Tecklenburg says that you don’t have to tweak path points just to do a morph in After Effects — there’s a procedural way with Signed Distance Fields. See his explanation in Morph in After Effects… ...

Tip: If your effect involves a small area of dynamic liquid within a large ocean, you will likely need to resort to visual effects tricks. Rather than simulating the entire section of ocean, you will ...