ABSTRACT
It is important to keep in mind that fi lm may have been the fi rst moving image medium that employed visual effects, but as new technologies developed-animation, video, games, the Internet-visual effects were there. From the early video tricks of Ernie Kovacs, to YouTube, to your local cineplex, visual effects have been employed to help the creators of all moving media tell their stories. So to the reader, we stress that when you read the word “fi lm,” we mean by implication all moving media. As technology improves-and video games start to look like fi lm, and fi lm’s visual effects are created like video games, and all are done at the same resolution, and they look photoreal in animated fi lms as well as live-action fi lms-visual effects will merge into a shared technology.
