Major Eras of Cinema Visual Effects
- 1902 - "A Trip to the Moon" - Georges Méliès (director)
- 1933 - "King Kong" - Willis O'Brien (stop motion animator)
- 1968 - "2001: a space odyssey" - Stanley Kubrick (director)
- Emergence of CGI at Industrial Light & Magic
- 1991 - Terminator 2: Judgement Day - liquid metal man
- 1993 - Jurassic Park - photorealistic computer generated dinosaurs
- Next era -- Unknown?