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io9MoviesOpen Channel: Let’s Celebrate This Guy’s 77th Birthday
Seventy-seven years ago a man was born who would release a movie in 1977 that would change the face of the world. He’d do a few other things too. That man’s name is George Lucas. Today, May 14, is his birthday, and we’ve love you all to celebrate. It’s almost too difficult to list all … Continued
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io9MoviesNetflix Is Making a New Animated Ultraman Movie
Ultraman’s global plans just keep getting bigger and bigger, appropriately. Tsuburaya Productions has announced that it is teaming with Netflix and Industrial Light and Magic to create an entirely original Ultraman animated movie at Netflix, separate from the streaming service’s current anime series. Directed by Shannon Tindle and John Aoshima, the movie follows a young … Continued
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io9The Mandalorian Season 2 Was Made With the Most Powerful Filmmaking Tool ILM Has Ever Created
When people think of Industrial Light and Magic, they obviously think of great visual effects, as well as the countless classic movies the company has worked on. But what you might not realize is that for many of those films, some of the effects were completely impossible until ILM specifically created the technology for them. … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsWandaVision‘s VFX Team on How Working From Home Brought Unexpected Balance
Like many of WandaVision’s secrets, the true meaning of the show’s era-specific production values, aesthetics, and practical effects only became clear towards the series finale which properly ushered the Scarlet Witch into the MCU. The story behind some of WandaVision’s use of visual effects goes even deeper than that, though. When io9 sat down to … Continued
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io9This Newest Mandalorian VFX Reel Is Genuinely Going to Shock You
No, there’s no electricity-based pun here, my friend. It’s just that things I saw in the second season of The Mandalorian that I was certain were VFX are not, and some of the things I thought I knew for a fact were real were completely VFX. Spend an immensely enjoyable three and a half minutes … Continued
By Rob Bricken
