The VFX of a scene from ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Extended Cut
How ILM made some neat webs, and more.
Making ‘Dora’s’ CG fox run like Tom Cruise
Plus other animation stories from the new film.
View, review and collaborate on huge 3D assets, anywhere
A new tool called Nira is making it possible.
‘My right hand is in the head, my left hand operates the left arm, and my assistant puppeteer is tucked under my right armpit’
Puppeteering the puppets of ‘The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance’.
How a reach for the heavens resulted in a naming convention app for Shotgun Toolkit
The app helped make a new show coming to Griffith Observatory possible.
What to do when you need to fill a stadium, or two
Behind the scenes of the crowds of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘Rocketman’ and ‘Yesterday’.
Yeti’s back with 3.5
The latest with the fur and feathers tool.
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What you need to know about tyFlow
Developer Tyson Ibele breaks down the 3ds Max particle simulator.
Re-visiting Waldo
Henson and PDI’s motion captured CG character.
Feather facts from ‘The Angry Birds Movie 2’
What went into crafting Leslie Jones' Zeta character.
Disney releases new ‘Aladdin’ behind the scenes videos
They cover the CG genie and filming the magic carpet ride.
Four of the most batshit crazy VFX moments in ‘The Boys’ happen in the first episode
And then episode 4 has...the dolphin.
Dozo: an early mocap marvel
The motion captured character made her debut at SIGGRAPH in 1989.
A visual history of performance capture at Weta Digital
Gollum. Caesar. Thanos. And more.
How practical and CG combined to tell some seriously ‘Scary Stories’
The role of VFX in bringing this deathly tale to life.
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Life as a motion capture performer
T.J. Storm has been Godzilla, the Predator and now...Vader.
When directors put on the mocap suit themselves
Usually, it’s actors who don motion capture suits, but here’s where the director suited up instead.
My VFX job: VFX editor
Method Studios’ Chris Kowal on what editing in VFX actually means.
My VFX job: Rendering software engineer
Weta Digital’s Javor Kalojanov on being part of rendering research at the top-tier studio.
My VFX job: Starting out in the industry
Early-career vfx artist Monika Batchelor on making the move from Australia to Hollywood.
My VFX job: Senior pipeline supervisor
Digital Domain’s Deke Kincaid on making everything ‘work like butter’.
How ‘The Lion King’ moved away from digital matte paintings to create fully CG vistas
Something was very different about the environments in the photo-real animated film.
Coming soon to befores & afters
Lion King, The Boys, the history of mocap, and more retro VFX.
That time James Cameron gave ILM a day to come up with a test for ‘The Abyss’
What should a CG water tentacle should look like, anyway?
Sometimes you just need to blow-dry your 3D printed hands in order to animate them
Behind the scenes of the stop-motion short, ‘Bone Mother’.
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