The History of VFX

I don't want to repeat loads of facts that are easily gathered using Google for the history of Visual Effects, so below are going to be some links that are very interesting to read if you want to read more.

Additionally, it cuts down on the size of this blog post, as over the past decade, the Visual Effects in all mediums have improved. One example of this is the Harry Potter series where the first film was partially believable while the eighth was truly believable, so I could easily talk about every Visual Effect orientated film and say how it has improved the industry and believability of films far beyond what people of the early 20th Century could have thought.

Below is a link to 'A Short History of Special Effects', however, for a brief read it does go into a lot of detail from the origins to the modern day Visual Effects, and I do recommend having a read of the article just to get to grips with how Visual Effects have progressed.

A Short History of Special Effects

Below is a link to 'Film Milestones in Visual Effects' by Tim Dirks. It's a good year by year account on the ever changing world of Visual Effects, and goes into individual movies and what they did to produce such brilliant Visual Effects throughout the years. Additionally, it contains a lot of other information such as controversial films that were also an interesting read.

Film Milestones in Visual Effects

Below is a video that showcases Visual Effects from 1900 to 2008, giving a very brief showing of how Visual Effects have changed in just over a century.