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Effective Visuals - A History and A Future

Special visual effects, or SFX, is a visual trickery created to look like something not immediately achieved within a singular live frame. If the trickery has done its job well, we don’t know anything about it. Did you realize that when we’re flying through the asteroid belt in The Empire Strikes Back that many of the asteroids were potatoes thrown in front of a blue screen to keep the budget low? No? I didn’t think so. SFX is movie magic at its most magical, but it did not poof from a cloud of smoke overnight to get to where it is today. The magic potion needed time to brew and develop from the day of its first ingredient…