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Raima Mishra

Updated on Dec 4, 2025•education

What is vfx?

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Rowan Noah
Updated on Dec 4, 2025

VFX (Visual Effects) involves creating or enhancing imagery that can’t be captured through regular live-action filming, using techniques like CGI, compositing, and digital simulations. It helps bring complex environments, characters, and effects to life while blending seamlessly with real footage. Since VFX requires strong technical and artistic coordination, partnering with teams experienced in animation, compositing, and digital production can make a big difference. 

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Pandey Chandan
Answered on Jan 14, 2023

Visual effects (VFX) are special effects added to movies using a computer. VFX often combines live action footage and manipulated or enhanced imagery to create realistic environments and characters. The main goal of VFX ( Visual effects ) is to make something fake look real or at least believable. Visual effects are also useful. For example, an explosion captured during a live chase. Visual effects (VFX) help you enter into your dream.

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Prreeti Radhika Taneja
Answered on Jan 6, 2020

You’ve likely seen Avengers: Endgame.

Remember the now-iconic Captain America vs. Captain America scene?

Here’s how that visually-spectacular scene was made possible…

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See all the green screens, imageries, layers, compositing?

That’s VFX or Visual Effects.

VFX is basically creating and manipulating computer-generated imageries and then combining them with the live-action elements.

It integrates a digitally-created object with the real-life footage.

A lot of today’s Hollywood movies – especially the superhero ones – extensively use VFX where a scene cannot be shot or made possible in live-action.

Like these…

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Now, there are many different components and nuances to VFX. Generally put, there are five basic techniques:
(i) Green screen
Green screen
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(ii) Rotoscoping
Rotoscoping
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(iii) Matte painting
Matte painting
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(iiii) Physical simulators
Physical simulators
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(v) 3D modeling
3D modeling
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Of course, the green screen is the most common and popular technique that we know of.
The green background is easily removed from behind the live-action and replaced with a completely different background.
Rotoscoping is another popular method of separating the background and live-action. This is a bit complex and time-consuming, used when there’s no green screen behind the live-action.
Depending on the kind of video one is making, these VFX techniques can be used together at the same time.
There are many advanced and powerful software that are used in VFX. Some of the popular ones include Adobe AfterEffects, Maya, 3Ds Max, and Flame Autodesk. Needless to say, they are all costly.
Hope this answer helps!
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