CREATING WORLDS OF WHIMSY AND FANTASY.

SPECIAL effects (Motion pictures); ANIMATION (Cinematography); MOTION picture industry; MOTION picture post-production equipment; FILMMAKING; UNIVERSAL Production Partners (Company); GOVERNMENT policy

The article discusses the use of visual effects and animations by the several film production studios. Topics include the benefits acquired by visual effects (vfx) providers and post production companies from the government of Czech Republic through film incentive programs, the supervision of Universal Production Partners to provide vfx services to foreign television program such as "The Musketeers", and the use of paint-on-glass technique in animation.