Without a juggernaut like “Avatar,” this year’s visual effects Oscar race is proving a competitive one, with VFX branch members nominating the stellar work in “Alien: Romulus,” “Better ...
Rewatching the first Avatar, you’ll often get the sense that the VFX are great and lovely to behold, but it is still obviously animation and doesn’t fool you into thinking it’s literally real.
For instance, two years ago, “Avatar: The Way of Water” went into ... with their stories of how they innovated to make their VFX-driven movie with an overall budget of just $15 million.