Comparing special effects with visual effects?

[mox]

Sorry all, but I really confused.My friend told me that special effects are in production and visual effects were in post-production?How do you think?Could you give some examples?thanks

[Nicholas Fox]

theres a good entry at Wikipedia for that..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_effects

[Leslie Pierce]

Thank you but I’ve read before and I think it’s not too clearly for me,or because of my bad english?

[Anonymous]

Yes on set practical effects are called special effects – so explosions etc .

Visual effects are done in post production : so 3D compositing etc.

If you are new to visual effects you may find this site a little heavy going – it is aimed at industry professionals primarily – everyone is welcome but this may not be the easiest place to start

Mike

[Anonymous]

Yes on set practical effects are called special effects – so explosions etc .

Visual effects are done in post production : so 3D compositing etc.

If you are new to visual effects you may find this site a little heavy going – it is aimed at industry professionals primarily – everyone is welcome but this may not be the easiest place to start

Mike

[pixelmonk]

So Mike, is that a stereoscopic post?

[Anonymous]

@paul_round 25481 wrote:

So Mike, is that a stereoscopic post?

thanks for catching that – I have deleted the double post

Mike

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