Windows Movie Maker is a versatile tool that you can use to create and edit video files. Movie Maker includes a limited library of special effects for manipulating video clips. If you want to branch ...

Free app FxGuru, now available for both Android and iOS, comes with a dozen dazzling effects. Here's how to kickstart your moviemaking career. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands ...

It’s never been cheaper or more accessible to learn how to do advanced special effects. With a laptop, a copy of Blender, and some YouTube tutorials, you can get started playing around with CGI ...

PhotoshopCAFE has a couple dozen tutorials on creating various kinds of special effects in Photoshop. The effects including everything from drop shadows and photographic edges to realistic reflections ...

NOVA: Tell us about your interest in special effects. BURTT: Well, my interest in special effects goes back a lot further that my professional career. When I made films as a child, the very first film ...

"Ghost in the Shell" is one of the year's most visually stunning films. Scarlett Johansson stars as a cybernetic cop whose human brain and robotic body blur the line between humanity and technology.

It’s true, on the most elemental level, that all one really needs to “make a movie” is a camera and a subject to point it at. Since the advent of the motion picture camera, people have been capturing ...