When Mufasa in The Lion King has something to say, everybody listens. Especially when he roars. It's the job of special effects sound makers to make sure that roar sounds real. They call themselves ...

A superhero landing without the earth-shaking boom. A horror scene missing that eerie creak of a slowly opening door. A car chase with nothing but silence. Feels off, right? Sound effects don’t just ...

Though they may seem a recent phenomenon, special-effects driven movies have been with us since the dawn of cinema. From the moment filmmakers realized that the camera and the editing room offered the ...

Reprinted by permission of "The Big Frame." Distributed by Imax Corporation, Special Effects reveals the method behind the magic of the movies, and features state-of-the art effects created ...

The salvage yard at M. Maselli & Sons, in Petaluma, California, is made up of six acres of angle irons, block pulleys, doorplates, digging tools, motors, fencing, tubing, reels, spools, and rusted ...

Horror filmmaking continues to prove that atmosphere often matters more than scale a strong concept combined with careful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Practical special effects, optical enhancements physically created on a film set, include miniature model displays, extreme ...