From the age of Ray Harryhausen’s painstakingly articulated stop-motion creations to the era of photorealistic digital creatures built through millions of computing hours, the monsters of fantasy ...

Randall Colburn is a writer and editor at Entertainment Weekly. His work has previously appeared on The A.V. Club, The Guardian, The Ringer, and many other publications.

Article Summary Doug Drexler discusses four decades shaping Star Trek through makeup, visual effects, and ship design. Insight on the evolution from practical effects to CG and thoughts on what ...

Some of the most memorable characters on screens are not even from Earth, and they have left a mark through striking designs, detailed worldbuilding, and performances that audiences still talk about.

As Alien: Earth hits the small screen with promises of creatures even scarier than the slathering xenomorphs, SFX experts tell us how they made Stranger Things, The Last of Us and more so horrifying ...

Gifted at creating vampires and making actors age onscreen, he also won for ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ and ‘Vice.’ By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Cannom worked often with makeup maestro Rick ...

For his Fall-Winter 2025 show at Paris Fashion Week, Dutch designer Duran Lantink continued to break the mold with his offbeat designs. Set in an office space that wouldn’t look out of place in the ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Supermodel Heidi Klum has often been called the "queen of Halloween." Since 2000, she has thrown an ...

Transforming an actor’s teeth for a TV or movie project, says Tony Gardner of animatronic and prosthetic makeup-effects studio Alterian, Inc., is like a magic trick. No matter how big the literal ...