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- The AI/ML tools one VFX artist used for a new short horror film
- Issue #14 of befores & afters mag is out and goes deep into in-house VFX tools
- Here’s how Beast was made for that end-credits scene in ‘The Marvels’
- Watch Bottleship VFX’s breakdown for ‘Comandante’
- ‘A great big show of visual effects where nobody will know that we did anything’
- DNEG builds a beautiful broken world in HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ with MattePaint
- Watch TRIXTER’s ‘Loki’ season 2 VFX breakdown
- This ‘Godzilla Minus One’ behind the scenes footage is a fun watch
- ILM’s Rob Coleman on co-chairing this year’s SIGGRAPH Asia Computer Animation Festival
- Music video for ‘Follow the Toad’ follows virtual production workflow
- Get the latest version of Autograph
- How this music video was made by painting the talent silver
- KISS as avatars, by ILM
- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Behind the visual effects of ‘NYAD’
- You can now watch Framestore’s ‘FLITE’ in full online
- 6 Reasons Why You Need MASV For VFX File Transfers
- Re-thinking the approach to creatures
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- ‘The water needed to have a performance’
- On The Set Pic: ‘All the Light We Cannot See’
- Rebelway’s VFX training courses are 25% off for Cyber Monday savings
- A new VFX Notes is here! And we go deep on both ‘Extraction’ films
- ActionVFX’s Early Access 3D Asset Library Launches | Production-Ready 3D Models, VDBs, & More
- Nick Dudman on the make-up effects and creatures in s2 of ‘The Wheel of Time’
- Watch Rodeo FX’s VFX breakdown for ‘Heart of Stone’
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- Building up Beki
- ‘It’s actually what an illustrator would’ve done’
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- How the live-action plate shoots worked for nature documentary series ‘Life on our Planet’
- Watch Image Engine’s VFX breakdown for ‘Ahsoka’
- Mother Longlegs vs. Mantleclaw!
- A giant penis, flaming body, and blood shards that kill
- Wētā FX will showcase their work on ‘The Marvels’ at SIGGRAPH Asia Sydney
- How ‘Barbie’s’ ode to Dawn of Man set the scene for a specific style of VFX
- How channeling was different on season 2 of ‘The Wheel of Time’
- On The Set Pic: ‘The Marvels’
- Watch Ingenuity’s ‘The Nun II’ VFX breakdown
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- Celebrating 30 years of Digital Domain
- How they made dino scenes in ‘Life on Our Planet’
- On The Set Pic: ‘The Fall Guy’
- Get all the details on SIGGRAPH Asia Sydney!
- Need to create a giant CG octopus? Why not start with the real thing
- ZBrush Face Tools Help Character Artists Bridge the Skill Gap to Achieve Expressive Animations
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- Watch Union VFX’s breakdown reel for ‘Empire of Light’
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- Issue #13 of befores & afters magazine is out, and it goes deep on VFX CREATURES
- That stunning playoffs oner in s2 of ‘Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty’ was made from 10 stitches
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- Meet The Pit Monster
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- How the crazy werewolf practical effects were made for ‘Wolf Like Me’
- See Rodeo’s ‘The Witcher’ s3 VFX breakdown for their Jackapace
- How to make a CG Idris Elba
- On The Set Pic: ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’
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- You don’t want to miss this StudioADI chronicle of their ‘Prey’ practical effects
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- Watch Milk VFX’s ‘Good Omens’ s2 VFX breakdown
- Here’s what actually goes into making a talking animal movie
- On The Set Pic: ‘NYAD’
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- Go behind the scenes of ‘Secret Invasion’ with Digital Domain
- Here’s Scanline’s VFX breakdown for ‘Spy Kids: Armageddon’
- Framestore’s VFX breakdown for ‘The Little Mermaid’ is now online
- Watch this short doco on Simon Weisse models and miniatures in Wes Anderson’s ‘Henry Sugar’
- ‘I would love for a curious and interested audience to know how a matte painting is painted’
- Watch this ‘Spy Kids: Armageddon’ on-set featurette
- The VFX breakdown of ‘Extraction 2’s’ huge oner is absolutely fascinating
- The miniature effects of ‘Henry Sugar’, and where you can see more from Wes Anderson
- Watch Digital Domain’s VFX breakdown for ‘Citadel’
- Exclusive: behind Framestore Pre-production Services’ previs for ‘The Last of Us’
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- ‘We explained to the studio that we were going to do everything backward’
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- Watch the trailer for ‘Pencils Vs Pixels’
- Check out WWFX’s VFX breakdown for ‘The Expendables 4’
- Important Looking Pirates’ VFX reel for s2 of ‘Foundation’ is online
- Behind the biggest VFX scenes in ‘Foundation’ s2
- Watch Hybride’s VFX breakdown for s3 of ‘The Mandalorian’
- befores & afters magazine is now also an e-book!
- Watch Monkey Rave’s VFX breakdown for ‘Moving’
- On The Set Pic: ‘Spy Kids: Armageddon’
- Watch this quick vid with ILM modelmaker John Goodson on the T-6 Jedi Shuttle in ‘Ahsoka’
- Behind the scenes of ‘Meg 2: The Trench’
- Watch MPC’s previs reel for ‘Rise of the Beasts’
- Discover the artistic power of Rebelle – bridging the gap between traditional and digital painting
- Exclusive: see how Proof previs’d that insane freeway chase in ‘Fast X’
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- ‘Make them go F.A.S.T.’
- Watch MPC’s visual effects breakdown for ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’
- Creatives from this year’s biggest VFX films and animated features are speaking at VIEW
- Before and After at b&a: ‘The Great’
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- The making of Bank Heist mocap series for action films
- Watch Platige’s VFX breakdown for s3 of ‘The Witcher’
- On The Set Pic: ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’
- Here’s Rodeo FX’s VFX breakdown for ‘The Little Mermaid’
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- Crafting new tools and hacking existing ones to hit a stylized aesthetic
- See the LED volume and motion control rig used on ‘The School for Good and Evil’
- ‘We wanted to imply teenage imperfection everywhere’
- The different ways they shot the basketball games on ‘Winning Time’ were pretty cool
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- Coming soon to befores & afters…
- Watch this new ‘Dial of Destiny’ ET featurette on the de-ageing of Harrison Ford
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- Watch MPC’s VFX breakdown for ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’
- How those twinning/doubling shots in ‘The Flash’ were done
- ‘I get to think as a graphic designer, a compositional artist, cinematographer and director’
- Watch Alt.vfx’s VFX breakdown for ‘The Pope’s Exorcist’
- VIEW Conference is a great place to get practical tips on VFX
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- Watch Cinesite’s ‘The Witcher’ s3 VFX breakdown
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- Watch this VFX breakdown for ‘Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead’
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- Watch this official behind the scenes ‘Dial of Destiny’ featurette
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- How that crazy HBO Mario Kart trailer on SNL was made
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- Check out Cadence Effects’ splitscreen VFX for ‘Dead Ringers’
- See early glimpse behind the scenes of ‘Comandante’
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- How ILM’s MORF tool nearly became the way the stop-motion dinos were motion blurred on ‘Jurassic Park’
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- Be the first to get issue #1 in e-book form
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- Catch a glimpse behind the scenes of ‘The Little Mermaid’ in this video
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- Watch this video breakdown of the VFX of ‘Pinocchio’
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- ‘These were the amazing tools that we had at our disposal and got to use’
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- Issue #9 of the magazine is here!
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- How those underwater scenes were made in ‘Wakanda Forever’
- Go behind the scenes of JUNG_E
- NEW to the befores & afters Patreon – LIVE STREAMS!
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- VIDEO: Explore this VFX breakdown for ‘The Pale Blue Eye’
- The latest issue of befores & afters magazine goes deep on VFX art departments
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- Watch UPP’s ‘Black Adam’ VFX breakdown
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- Cloth sims for an alien entity, making the sky one giant visual effect, and a rampaging chimpanzee
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- Turning Beastboy into a bat and a tiger
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- ‘It’s pretty gnarly at times!’
- Behind the stuffies and stand-ins used to make ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’
- Go behind the scenes of Pixomondo’s virtual production on S4 of ‘Star Trek: Discovery’
- Here’s how practical and digital effects worked together to sell the scares in ‘Malignant’
- What is photorealism? Well, someone literally just wrote the book on it
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- ‘What’s the story? What’s the feeling? That’s the hard part.’
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- The making of this shot from ‘Army of Thieves’ is fun
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- Watch Weta Digital’s VFX breakdown for ‘The Green Knight’
- Watch this Maere Studios VFX breakdown for ‘The Green Knight’
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- Go behind the scenes of that insane Burberry ‘Open Spaces Film’
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- Sneak peek of Houdini 19, Rust Working Group, UE5 modeling mode
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- The invisible effects of ‘Modern Love’
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- Behind the scenes of the volumetric capture in the Coldplay X BTS – My Universe video
- Watch this ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ VFX breakdown from Ghost VFX
- How they made those intense ‘Shang-Chi’ prelude battle scenes
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- Watch Rising Sun Pictures’ ‘Mortal Kombat’ VFX breakdown
- A new video showcases practical submarine model filming
- It’s 25 years since ‘Dragonheart’; learn the VFX secrets behind the film
- Making the memory projections in ‘Reminiscence’
- VFX Futures: The visualization tools and techniques behind The Third Floor
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- Watch these ‘Black as Night’ VFX breakdowns
- Catch up on the befores & afters ‘Shang-Chi’ coverage
- Video: Behind ‘F9’s’ land mine chase (including a look a gimbal shooting!)
- VFX Notes: Ep 8 – David Fincher and the rise of invisible VFX
- How this runaway train film used LED walls for virtual backgrounds
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- VFX Futures: The FreeMoCap Project
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- The monumental VFX behind the monumental final ‘Shang-Chi’ battles
- Go to ‘film school’ with ‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’
- VFX Futures: How Halon previs’d ‘Free Guy’
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- A look at the planning, previs, stuntvis and shooting of ‘Shang-Chi’
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- Watch this fun ‘Jungle Cruise’ VFX breakdown from UPP
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- Watch this Axis Studios breakdown of their ‘Love Death + Robots: Tall Grass’ short
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- VFX Futures: How do you edit a live action/CG hybrid film?
- VFX Notes: Ep 6 – Looking back at ‘2010: The Year We Make Contact’, and, are miniatures dead?
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- Tech Weeklies: Adobe acquires Frame.io, new Silhouette, disguise and UE 4.27, new Resolve
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- Weta Digital on how they made those raging rapids in ‘Jungle Cruise’
- Tech Weeklies: New news from Nvidia, Autodesk, Epic, Chaos and Adobe
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- Gene Kelly’s performances were a direct source of reference for the animators on ‘Vivo’
- Here’s where you can download ‘production-ready’ CG assets from VFX, anim and game engine studios
- Tech Weeklies: Animal Logic’s complete USD scene, ftrack to launch cineSync Play, NEP’s big virtual production move
- ‘You just described a movie that’s got eight pipelines in it and eight different looks!’
- Creative studio Taylor James breaks down boundaries with AWS
- VFX Firsts: The first film to use an all-CG photoreal character
- Meet the SIGGRAPH 2021 Featured Speakers: your guide to their sessions
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- Tech Weeklies: HieroPlayer for free, Cascadeur updates, new Blackmagic Studio Camera, das element launches
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- VFX Notes: Ep 4 – Space Jam 2, Tomorrow War, Loki, and a look at LED volume filmmaking
- Behind ‘Black Widow’: Making the Red Room red
- Behind ‘Black Widow’: How Belova blew off that BMW back door in Budapest
- Behind ‘Black Widow’: Setting the scene with that sudden opening escape
- Celebrating ‘Joe’s Apartment’ and those CG cockroaches
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- Tech Weeklies: Epic buys Sketchfab, Unity buys SpeedTree, FreeMoCap, ASWF Open Source Days
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- Tech Weeklies: OptiTrack’s Motive, MaterialX joins ASF, NIM 5.0
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- VFX Notes: Ep 3 – Black Widow, SIGGRAPH preview, LUTs, CG vs. practical
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- Tech Weeklies: RenderMan 24, Penzil, 3D Coat 2021, Dynamixyz acquired
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- Watch Zoic’s VFX breakdowns for ‘Superman & Lois’
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- ‘Oh my god, are they going to show this? Oh my god, they showed it.’
- Tig Notaro’s greenscreen shoot, her digi-double and the VFX required to place her into the already-filmed ‘Army of the Dead’
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- Shotmakers: How Milk VFX orchestrated the devastating space helmet drowning in ‘Intergalactic’
- ‘Army of the Dead’ and that horse
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- The most fun VFX run-down of ‘Flight of the Navigator’ you’ll ever see
- Watch the making of ‘Wasteminster’
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- How Weta Digital delivered that digi-double handover of Anthony Mackie in ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’
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- VFX Firsts: What was the first film to use a model or miniature?
- Watch Ghost VFX’s reel for s2 of ‘Mythic Quest’
- Behind the scenes of ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’
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- This video breaks down the ‘Nevers’ walking on water fight
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- Many, many befores/afters in this ‘Falcon’ interview
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- Step-by-step: making magic for ‘A Discovery of Witches’
- How they made the Goro fight in ‘Mortal Kombat’
- VFX Firsts: What was the first film to use stop-motion?
- How they made Christopher Walken fly
- Go deep on the tech behind ‘Soul’
- Sebastian Stan and ‘Stan’
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- ‘The way we animated those was completely new’
- Behind the early 2D/3D test for ‘The Mitchells vs. the Machines’
- ‘Okay, what if it looked exactly like this?’
- Exclusive: sneek VFX peak from ‘The Boys’ official podcast
- Here’s how to hear untold VFX stories from these VFX legends
- VFX Firsts: What was the first film to use a chrome ball, and when were they first used for HDRI lighting?
- ‘Tenet’ takes the VFX Oscar
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- Zero-gravity frame rates, deep fakes and moon scrapes: the VFX of ‘For All Mankind’
- ‘Shrek’ is 20: go back behind the scenes with PDI
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- Follow along with Melina Juergens’ digital hooman diary
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- Icy fingers of death: the ‘Snowpiercer’ aquarium scene was based on the real-world phenomenon of brinicles
- Look closely and you might even see bicycles stuck to Kong during the Hong Kong fight
- How Kong’s ocean showdown with Godzilla was made
- ‘Behind Her Eyes’ gets the VFX breakdown treatment
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- Learn the untold stories of the effects for ‘Twister’
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- Making a Māori warrior with a difference
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- New stunning look at ILM’s virtual production on s2 of ‘The Mandalorian’
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- Suddenly, a whole bunch of behind the scenes of Pixar content to watch
- It’s time to check out these ‘Mandalorian’ s2 VFX breakdowns
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- Don’t miss this Flash breakdown
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- Vision vs The Vision: a VFX how-to
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- Down to the fine details: the hair replacement VFX on Pietro
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- Lots of ‘WandaVision’ VFX behind the scenes in this new video
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- Victor Perez to share color management fundamentals in partnership with Foundry and Netflix
- Miniature ships, big impact
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- The machine learning tools now in Nuke 13
- Behind those insane skin shedding scenes in ‘Lovecraft Country’
- Want to watch some official behind the scenes featurettes?
- Shotmakers: How to put on a concert…for dragons
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- The high-flying miniatures of ‘Executive Decision’, and where they are now
- VIDEO: Tribes of Europa VFX breakdown
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- VIDEO: Watch this Imageworks ‘Over the Moon’ breakdown
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- The Tom Cruise ‘deepfake’, broken down
- ‘We treated that mice sequence as though this was Gollum’
- Shotmakers: how that opening train scene in s2 of ‘Snowpiercer’ was made
- Find all the nominees right here for the 19th Annual VES Awards
- Why these slim-line high-def cameras are being chosen for 360 VR rigs
- The visual effects of ‘Wonder Woman 1984’
- Inside the cockpit of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
- Catch a glimpse behind the scenes of ‘Tom & Jerry’
- Shotmakers: the transitions in ‘Wander Darkly’
- A tribute to Cinefex
- Q&A: ‘Greyhound’ director Aaron Schneider
- Video: MPC FIlm’s ‘The One And Only Ivan’ VFX breakdown
- Meet Bubs, a re-programmed military robot from ‘Space Sweepers’
- Get the VFX studio and indie perspective on virtual production at Vertex
- Go behind the scenes of Digital Domain’s Coach Lombardi spot
- How ‘The Witches’ drew upon a ton of the latest VFX techniques
- Sci-Techs: see all the acceptance speeches
- Watch this 40min demo on how to use MetaHuman Creator
- The tech behind Baobab Studios’ real-time platform for making VR narratives
- Video: behind the LED filmmaking in ‘Midnight Sky’
- VFX vids you should watch right now
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- Now you can meet a MetaHuman
- The visual effects of ‘Bridgerton’
- Making rivers, rain and whole towns for ‘News of the World’
- The VFX shortlist for the 93rd Academy Awards
- Some people have wondered if the Dark Troopers might be stop-motion
- How they made #FlatMatthew
- That Super Bowl ‘F9’ trailer shot is a motion control shot
- A visual journey into the Sci-Tech hair simulation winners
- How ILM kept much of the Krayt dragon hidden in s2 of ‘The Mandalorian’
- Oh man, the art of melting CG rats
- Behind the scenes of ‘Finding ‘Ohana’
- There’s a dedicated FYC site for ‘Mank’ with VFX breakdowns
- Bunnies, planes and blood stains: the VFX of ‘The Flight Attendant’
- ‘This is where we add the 30 foot liquid metal shark’
- Inside the latest SideFX Houdini demo project: ‘The Dawning’
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- A 48K VFX plate demo, from a car and a train
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- Everything you need to know about making the monsters of ‘Monster Hunter’
- ‘Outside the Wire’: check out this VFX breakdown video
- Watch this ‘Greyhound’ VFX breakdown video
- Go even more behind the scenes of this ‘Stranger Things’ monster
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- An interesting video about making ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’
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- “I thought, ‘This is not going to work.’ But nobody has ever questioned it.”
- The in-camera FX behind ‘Next’s’ title design
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- The VFX of ‘Greyhound’
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- Reminder: there’s a whole YouTube channel dedicated to in-camera effects
- Remember those giraffes in ’12 Monkeys’?
- Did you see ‘Soul’? Now read about the tech behind it
- These ‘Elf’ featurettes are simply fun
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- Thanks to everyone for sharing your issue #1 pics!
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- ‘Mank’ VFX: ‘body-and-fender’ work and so much more
- See what’s possible with just an iPhone and Unreal Engine
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- Weta Digital’s meerkat Unreal short available as free sample files
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- It’s here: issue #1 of befores & afters in print
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- Get to know your volumetric video camera
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- Where USD is up to right now at Foundry
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- How ILM’s work on ‘Hook’ led to ‘Phantom Menace’s’ podrace
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