The co-director discusses the challenges of making his Oscar-contending indie.
Rob Legato and Ben Grossmann divulge the secrets behind Martin Scorsese's first foray into 3-D.
Terrence Masson talks about preparing educators and students through a pioneering new approach to interdisciplinary collaboration.
There are coffee-table "The Art of …" and "The Making of …" books on just about every new American animated feature. Books about older movies are rarer. Here is one on a 1967 "classic": the stop-motion Mad Monster Party.
Quite a few cartoon characters have made the leap from the animated world to the real one (Scooby Doo, the Smurfs and the Chipmunks for starters) – but how many have gone the other way?
ILM supervisor Craig Hammack sweeps through the VFX challenges of George Lucas' pet project about the top guns of World War II.
Creator Adam Reed’s spy-spoof deftly brings together espionage, workplace drama, dirty sex and automatic weapons. And turtlenecks.
ILM visual effects supervisor Ben Snow shares his insights on turning sultry underwater vixens into vicious battling mermaids, all in stereoscopic 3-D
The acclaimed director of Belle Epoque tells us about his first foray into animation and this very adult Spanish Oscar contender.
Dr. Toon speaks candidly in his post-mortem of the Fox animated series, Allen Gregory.
Framestore's Ben Morris describes how they managed to make us believe they never touched a shot in Steven Spielberg's Oscar contender.
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