I think itâs safe to say here in 2025 that AI is here to stay. AI, CGI, green screen, blue screen, mocapâŠall of these tools can make for some pretty impressive characters, creatures, and exciting scenes in movies, but at the end of the day, does anything ever really top the physical makeups and costumes that turn actors into monsters or victims? Or the painstaking stop-motion effects of Ray Harryhausen, Willis OâBrien, and those they influenced?