young sherlock holmes and johns watson from the 1985 movie - Hulton Archive/Getty Images The innovations of computer-generated imagery have brought us movie monsters for years, such as Smaug from "The ...

‘The first major CGI character appeared in a James Cameron movie.' This is one of those statements that feels like a fact even when you’re not sure whether it is one. Long before CGI became common in ...

What you see on screen isn’t always real and CGI is the reason why. From subtle background details to entire worlds that don’t exist, it has completely transformed the way we experience movies. It’s ...