Rob Legato creates visual effects for big-budget movies. ( Video link ) In this TED talk, he shares how he created effects sequences for...

To create the film illusion of an imaginary landscape or city, nowadays moviemakers create 3D digital environments, generally by replacing t...

Jordu Schell wants to scare the daylights out of you. In Allentown, Pennsylvania last weekend, Schell gave a lecture about designing mons...

The digital artists at WETA Digital’s creature department have breathed life into Gollum, King Kong (video below), and the creatures of Avat...

This photo panorama stitches together the north campus (PDI DreamWorks) and the south campus (DreamWorks Animation SKG) of the DreamWorks co...

Artists rarely create in a vacuum. Even if you paint alone, you’ve got to consider the feedback of art directors, patrons, or galleries. If ...

DreamWorks Animation has an elite group of concept artists divided between its two campuses in California. I visited with the dream team at ...

Last October I gave three different hour-long lectures to the senior concept artists at Blizzard Entertainment —the company that creates Wo...

DreamWorks Animation is best known for the Shrek franchise, which they followed up with Over the Hedge, Madagascar, Flushed Away, and the ...

Creating lifelike digital animals is one of the greatest challenges for CGI artists. We’ve all seen film footage of real penguins, pigs and ...

A cluster of seven unmarked buildings in Culver City is the home of some of the most eye-popping visual effects in the movie business. So...

It's been a flurry of visits to art schools and movie studios over the last two weeks. I'm way behind on the blog! We started off by...

Christopher Evans headed up the matte painting department at Lucasfilm during Return of the Jedi. He later rendered dozens of computer-gene...

The Eric Carle Museum of Picturebook Art, founded by the creator of the Very Hungry Caterpillar books, is one of the few museums devoted to ...

Yesterday Jeanette and I kicked off the Road Tour with a visit to Blue Sky Studios in White Plains, New York. Blue Sky created the CG animat...