Avatar: graphically speaking, is it the Star Wars of the decade? I mean, for the last year we’ve seen increasing amounts of press and media coverage highlighting the lengths at which director, writer, and overall creator James Cameron went to make Avatar one of the most anticipated movies of all time. Movie buffs and HD aficionados have no doubt been following the development of Avatar as revolutionary new methods were used to create the special effects within the...

In order of creator: Fabio Barretta, Piotr Fox Wysocki (2nd and 3rd images) Looking above, we can truly see how far computers and computer generated graphics/pictures/effects have come in two decades. The results are simply amazing. They’re so real. When games and movies start looking this real then we’re getting somewhere. Even still, static images such as those above are marvels of modern digital art. What did they use? You know, the usual array of...