Imageworks exits L.A.

In a further blow to Southern California’s visual-effects industry, Sony Pictures Imageworks is moving its Los Angeles-area headquarters to Canada. One of Hollywood’s leading visual effects companies said Friday that it will move into a new facility in...

Vancouver dreaming

Visual effects company Sony Pictures Imageworks will relocate its head office from Culver City, Calif. to Vancouver and move into a new 74,000-square-foot headquarters in Pacific Centre next year, the company announced late Thursday. The downtown Pacific Centre space...

A blast from the past

Long before Adult Swim, MTV’s Liquid Television and even most of the cartoons that penetrated your sugar riddled brain on Saturday mornings, Spike & Mike were traveling the globe introducing audiences to the joy and magic of animation. “We were with...

Even theatre taking its cue from video games

Under the arches of London Bridge two policemen pursue a murder suspect. The man gasps for breath, desperately searching for an escape route as the cops close in. Meanwhile, some place not far away, a crowbar-wielding physicist lunges desperately at a reanimated...

A history of special effects in 3 minutes

Director Jim Casey put together this video showing the evolution of visual effects—in chronological order—from 1878 to 2014. It’s impressive, considering the tools they had at that time, how great some of the century-old effects still look.