Over a hundred years ago, visual effects underwent a progressive evolution making the impossible possible to the industry of film making. The illusion is the base on which the evolution of Visual effects is developed. This has become the basis in which effects have tremendously grown over the past years. However, there are certain principles on which these developments are based on, and they include the following;
Assumption, presumptions, and context are the main things in which illusions are built on. In the assumption principle, things are assumed to be the way they are. There is a way in which things appear, and that is now how the audience will always understand in the case, making illusion easy to create. People expect things to behave the way they have been known to act, and this is presumption. So the audience expects a certain outcome from certain behavior because that is how they know it. Many visual effect are broken down in the context principle. Here reality is created by a combination of visual effects. In the context, reality filmmakers ensure that the visual effects created here are highly consistent and are in line with what happens in real life.
Evolution of visual effects have the following benefits: The visual effect has given movie makers a high level of freedom. Moviemakers can now create unimaginable movie scenes that are hard to find in the real world. These vary from the simplest to the most complex scenes that one can imagine. All these can be done at the comfort of your studio by just the use of a computer.
They are cheaper. Although the visual effect is not cheap, they are relatively less expensive compared to creating the same situation. The visual effect can develop such scenarios and make them appear to be making a movie more exciting.
The visual effect adds locations. The visual effect has enabled movie makers to create movies in different cities without necessarily traveling to those cities. This is also a cheaper option since it will save on travel costs so as to shoot a clip in a different area. It also allows movie makers to create diverse landscapes from different cities and countries. This increases the creativity of the movie.
The use of visual effect saves time. Some of the scenarios created by visual effect if put in reality it can take a lot of time. The visual effect creates these scenes by just a click of a button, making it fast.
