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The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Special, Visual & Graphic Effects is one of the categories presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) within the British Academy Television Craft Awards, the craft awards were established in 2000 with their own, separate ceremony as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the main ...
Ron Thornton (1957–2016) was a pioneer in the field of computer-generated visual effects for film and television. He is best known for pioneering the use of Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) in the industry, through his work on the Babylon 5 series, which was the first television series to use CGI for all its visual effects.
Outstanding Special Mechanical Effects [5] [note 1] Star Trek: Jim Rugg NBC: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Robert Tait ABC: Outstanding Special Photographic Effects [6] The Time Tunnel: L. B. Abbott: ABC: Star Trek: Darrell Anderson, Linwood G. Dunn, Joseph Westheimer NBC: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: L. B. Abbott: ABC: 1968
Theatrical smoke and fog, also known as special effect smoke, fog or haze, is a category of atmospheric effects used in the entertainment industry.The use of fogs can be found throughout motion picture and television productions, live theatre, concerts, at nightclubs and raves, amusement and theme parks and even in video arcades and similar venues.
A special effect of a miniature person from the 1952 film The Seven Deadly Sins. Special effects (often abbreviated as F/X or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the theatre, film, television, video game, amusement park and simulator industries to simulate the fictional events in a story or virtual world.
His first major job in special effects makeup was on the George A. Romero film Day of the Dead (1985), under the tutelage of Romero and make-up effects veteran Tom Savini. In 1988, along with Robert Kurtzman and Howard Berger , he formed KNB EFX Group , a special make-up effects studio which has gone on to work on over 400 film and television ...
He is known for his special effects work on TV series including Thunderbirds (1965–66) and films including Alien (1979), [5] for which he received the 1980 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (shared with H. R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Dennis Ayling and Nick Allder).
Today, streaming media such as video on demand and streaming television, often makes it possible for viewers to watch a television special again almost immediately after it is aired, and home video—which has largely given way to digital downloads—makes it possible for the general public to own copies of television specials and films.