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Special Effect: Special Effects (Often Abbreviated As SFX, SPFX, or Simply FX) Are

Special effects are illusions or visual tricks used in film, television, and video games to simulate imagined events. Special effects are divided into mechanical effects, which are accomplished during live-action shooting through props and models, and optical effects, which are created photographically. With advances in digital technology, visual effects created through computer-generated imagery have largely replaced mechanical and optical effects and allow for greater control and safety.

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Special Effect: Special Effects (Often Abbreviated As SFX, SPFX, or Simply FX) Are

Special effects are illusions or visual tricks used in film, television, and video games to simulate imagined events. Special effects are divided into mechanical effects, which are accomplished during live-action shooting through props and models, and optical effects, which are created photographically. With advances in digital technology, visual effects created through computer-generated imagery have largely replaced mechanical and optical effects and allow for greater control and safety.

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Special effect

Special effects (often abbreviated as SFX, SPFX, or simply FX) are


illusions or visual tricks used in the film, television, theatre, video
game and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in
a story or virtual world.
Special effects are traditionally divided into the categories of optical
effects and mechanical effects. With the emergence of digital film-
making a distinction between special effects and visual effects has
grown, with the latter referring to digital post-production while "special
effects" referring to mechanical and optical effects.
Mechanical effects (also called practical or physical effects) are usually
accomplished during the live-action shooting. This includes the use of
mechanized props, scenery, scale
models, animatronics, pyrotechnics and atmospheric effects: creating
physical wind, rain, fog, snow, clouds, making a car appear to drive by
itself and blowing up a building, etc. Mechanical effects are also often
incorporated into set design and makeup. For example, a set may be
built with break-away doors or walls to enhance a fight scene,
or prosthetic makeup can be used to make an actor look like a non-
human creature.
Optical effects (also called photographic effects) are techniques in which
images or film frames are created photographically. An optical effect
might be used to place actors or sets against a different background.
Since the 1990s, computer-generated imagery (CGI) has come to the
forefront of special effects technologies. It gives filmmakers greater
control, and allows many effects to be accomplished more safely and
convincingly and—as technology improves—at lower costs. As a result,
many optical and mechanical effects techniques have been superseded
by CGI.

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