The phrase "computer effects" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, you might use it in a sentence like this: "The computer effects in this movie are very impressive."
These provide the physical arena within which the computer effects its parallel computations.
For decades computer effects lurked at the periphery of movies.
Ultimately, critics pounced on bad editing, poor computer effects, and a dearth of ideas.
But now we've pretty much seen everything these new computer effects can do".
THE FINISH LINE The final step was merging the various footages and putting in the computer effects.
In his filmed introduction, Mr. Jackson says that "The Frighteners" was made near the beginning of computer effects.
Once an episode is shot, Stargate transfers the edited version to high-definition video and inserts the computer effects.
So the computer-effects team made that happen.
It is the largest and most ambitious computer-effects project Mr. Fangmeier has undertaken at Industrial Light and Magic, part of George Lucas's moviemaking empire.
"Right now, I am not entertained by anything on the Web," said Scott Ross, the president of Digital Domain, one of Hollywood's leading computer-effects houses.
But to many in the animation and computer-effects field, where the idea of this new category is not universally embraced, the brouhaha over the award draws attention away from more interesting issues, like what exactly constitutes animation these days.
