This VFX studio has made a standalone AI app for de-aging
Vanity AI from MARZ is designed for 2D aging, de-aging, cosmetic, wig, and prosthetic fixes.
New compositing tool Autograph released by Left Angle
It's designed for motion design, visual effects, and 3D compositing.
Check out this ‘Doctor Strange 2’ Imageworks breakdown
Showcasing Wanda's attack.
Autodesk Releases Open RV on Academy Software Foundation GitHub
Open Sourcing RV will help support industry-wide interoperability, standardize review and approval.
Watch MPC’s ‘Wednesday’ VFX breakdown
Monsters!
A CG test for Thing in ‘Wednesday’ involved several tests including animating a short with a dancing appendage
Behind the scenes of the visual effects for Thing in the hit Tim Burton show.
The 21st Annual VES Awards nominees–see them all here
Read the whole list.
Real and synthetic: the VFX of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
One of the most incredible films of 2022.
Behind the scenes of s3 of ‘His Dark Materials’
A new featurette from BBC is out.
Framestore on designing an immersive exhibition for the Science Museum in London
What goes into making immersive exhibition experiences.
The ‘Deadliest Catch’ stock footage in ‘Jurassic World Dominion’, behind the visual effects of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, and other new things I learned at the VFX Bake-Off
Some extra things shared in breakdowns and discussion at the Academy event. The Academy VFX Branch hosted its Visual Effects Bake-Off on
‘A massive 5 million polygon scan of the actual cave in Thailand was brought to life so we could extend our practical sets’
The underwater, cave builds and invisible visual effects of 'Thirteen Lives'.
The game played in ‘The Adam Project’ was an actual playable piece of real-time content
The story behind how Unity made the game in the film.
Lots of water: inside the VFX of ‘Five Days at Memorial’
How a giant water tank, a bevy of bluescreens and some innovative water sims helped make this Hurricane Katrina story possible.
Here’s how DreamWorks lent a whole new brand of stylized look and feel to ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’
Behind the design and the tools utilized by the studio on the film. If there’s one trend stirring up the feature animated
Watch UPP’s ‘Black Adam’ VFX breakdown
The VFX studio has released this reel.
Scott Eaton on the state of A.I. in art
Generative art, Midjourney, A.I., neural networks, machine learning: what it means for artists.
Behind the scenes of the stunts — underwater, above water and performance capture — in ‘The Way of Water’
Check out the official featurette.
See before/after Sigourney Weaver underwater and dry performance capture footage
A new official Avatar: Way of the Water featurette has been released.
Watch this ‘Thirteen Lives’ VFX breakdown
MPC has released this behind the scenes reel. The film is in the final 10 for consideration of the VFX Oscar.
Industrial Light & Magic put ‘Wakanda Forever’s’ Namor on top of a helicopter simulation to test his different flight speeds
How the VFX studio made the character fly, and how they also helped orchestrate the Talokan attack on Wakanda.
Watch nearly 4 minutes of ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ VFX breakdown shots
Netflix has released this behind the scenes VFX reel. The film's production VFX supervisor was Frank Petzold.
iRender: the powerful render farm for Octane and Cinema 4D
How to take advantage of the GPU-accelerated cloud renderer for your Cinema 4D and Octane projects.
Ending the world (multiple times) for ‘The End is Nye’
Shooting on greenscreen and destroying the world (and Bill Nye).
Avatar: Fire and Ash
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Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
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