Think about the last professional video you watched—a commercial, a music video, a film trailer. Beyond the cinematography and editing, you probably noticed something else: the effects and transitions ...

About 20 years ago, a neuroscientist named David Eagleman strapped a bunch of students into harnesses, hoisted them to the top of an imposing metal tower, and then, without warning, dropped them 150 ...

The Star Wars saga has regularly set the standard for what complicated visual effects can accomplish in films, often creating brand-new techniques that subsequent films replicate in order to build the ...