Pay attention to the visual effects the next time you’re watching television or a movie.
It could be Spiderman swinging from building to building, or Harry Potter and his wand against other wizards.
These are the kinds of visual effects Buffalo expects to deliver for Hollywood with Thursday’s announcement that the state will spend $4.5 million of the region’s Buffalo Billion to create a new visual effects studio and train workers in the field of post production.
Empire Visual Effects, which will partner with Daemen College, projects 150 new high-tech jobs in the next five years while carving a new niche industry in Buffalo.