visual effects
VFX combines filmed footage with digitally created imagery. This topic is part of Film Production within Movies & Television. This page currently draws on 10 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
visual effects trivia questions
Visual effects are commonly abbreviated what?
Answer: VFX
Bonus fact: VFX combines filmed footage with digitally created imagery.
What technology is often used to create creatures or environments impossible to film physically?
Answer: CGI
Bonus fact: Computer-generated imagery is a major VFX tool.
How do visual effects differ from traditional practical effects?
Answer: VFX are created or combined mainly in post-production
Bonus fact: Practical effects happen physically on set.
What visual-effects company did George Lucas found in 1975?
Answer: Industrial Light & Magic
Bonus fact: ILM became one of the world's leading visual-effects companies.
A blue screen is used for what visual-effects process?
Answer: Chroma keying
Bonus fact: Blue backgrounds can be replaced with other imagery.
Tsui Hark is especially associated with what genre?
Answer: Martial-arts and action cinema
Bonus fact: His films often combine kinetic action with fantasy and visual effects.
Which Gondry film stars Gael García Bernal as a dream-prone young man?
Answer: The Science of Sleep
Bonus fact: The film uses handmade visual effects and dream imagery.
Which U.S. network originally aired Firefly?
Answer: FOX
Bonus fact: The Television Academy records Firefly's 2003 Emmy for special visual effects.
Which network aired Fringe?
Answer: FOX
Bonus fact: The Television Academy records Emmy nominations for the Fringe pilot's visual effects and for sound editing on White Tulip.
Computer graphics is the field concerned with creating and manipulating what?
Answer: Digital images
Bonus fact: The field includes everything from user-interface icons to animation, games, visual effects, and scientific visualization.