Award-winning visual effects artist Douglas Trumbull died recently, leaving behind a body of memorable work including the slit-scan ‘Stargate’ sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey. But what is ...

Nowadays, when most audiences hear the term "visual effects" (or VFX) in relation to film and TV, computer-generated graphics are most often what come to mind. And today, most such effects are indeed ...

This video shows every day scenes in a city, in the most impossibly awesome and freaky and mind-twisting way I can imagine. It’s the antithesis of the soothing time-lapses we are used to: a slit-scan ...

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