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Author: Ian Failes

Articles

These students made an insane replica miniature CIA vault from ‘Mission: Impossible’

Posted onMarch 23, 2023

Yep, the one Tom Cruise breaks into, and befores & afters got a special visual insight into how it was built.

Articles

‘These were the amazing tools that we had at our disposal and got to use’

Posted onMarch 22, 2023

What the VFX supe on ‘Quantumania’ liked so much about having StageCraft and a range of other tools on the film. befores & afters has …

Articles

Generating 3D models and meshes from text prompts? We asked Shutterstock about its team-up with NVIDIA

Posted onMarch 22, 2023March 22, 2023

Customized Shutterstock content will be trained with NVIDIA Picasso generative AI cloud service.

Articles

‘We got them running full tilt and acting all crazy, but then we also sped it up 8%’

Posted onMarch 21, 2023March 22, 2023

How practical and digital combined to make that crazy episode 5 ‘Last of Us’ clicker battle.

Articles, Retro

Celebrate the release of the new 4K UHD ‘Dragonslayer’ SteelBook release with this Phil Tippett gallery

Posted onMarch 21, 2023

Re-visiting the go-motion work by Phil Tippett at ILM.

Articles, Podcasts

How to plan for huge VFX sequences: the VFX supe and VFX producer on ‘Slumberland’

Posted onMarch 20, 2023March 23, 2023

How do you get two characters to ride a giant flying goose, anyway?

Articles

DNEG made a procedural tool that let artists create bomb-shaped holes in Boston buildings for ‘The Last of Us’

Posted onMarch 18, 2023

Behind the scenes of the VFX studio’s environment and character integration work in the series.

Articles, VFX Breakdowns

Watch Windmall Lane’s VFX breakdown for ‘Wendell & Wild’

Posted onMarch 17, 2023

The studio showcases their VFX work for the stop-motion film.

VFX Breakdowns

Watch MARZ’s VFX breakdown for ‘Ant-Man: Quantumania’

Posted onMarch 17, 2023

The VFX studio showcases its work for the film.

Articles

Is she real? Is she CG? She’s both

Posted onMarch 16, 2023March 21, 2023

How practical and digital effects combined to make the murderous A.I. toy in ‘M3GAN’.

Articles, VFX Breakdowns

Rodeo FX’s digi-double breakdown from ‘Stranger Things 4’ is very fun

Posted onMarch 16, 2023

Watch the new breaking down the breakdown here.

Articles

Be inspired by this beautiful practical photographic animation film

Posted onMarch 15, 2023

Here’s how FX WRX made ‘Voyager’ using optical effects, animation, motion control robotics and projection techniques.

Articles

How the hole-ly Veb in ‘Ant-Man: Quantumania’ came to be

Posted onMarch 14, 2023

From actor David Dastmalchian in fauxcap on set, to final gooey alien.

Articles, Podcasts

How Blender Studio’s latest film, with a realistic human character, was made

Posted onMarch 13, 2023

Exploring the use of Blender’s latest features to make ‘Charge’.

Articles

‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ wins the VFX Oscar!

Posted onMarch 13, 2023March 13, 2023

The James Cameron film, with VFX led by Wētā FX, took the Academy Award.

Articles, Magazine

The making of a shot sculpting toolset

Posted onMarch 12, 2023March 21, 2023

How Animal Logic implemented a new toolset for rig deformation on ‘DC League of Super-Pets’.

Articles, VFX Breakdowns

Watch ILM’s ‘Wakanda Forever’ VFX breakdown

Posted onMarch 12, 2023

The studio has released their work showcasing the attack on the city.

VFX Breakdowns

Check out some of Rodeo FX’s recent ‘Breaking down the breakdowns’ on ST4

Posted onMarch 11, 2023

Here’s a couple of recent eps of their fun series.

Articles

Hovering between the real and surreal

Posted onMarch 10, 2023

MPC breaks down the visual effects for several key scenes in Alejandro Iñárritu’s ‘Bardo.’

Articles

How this VFX supe made his own effects-heavy short about a hero robot

Posted onMarch 9, 2023

Get tips and tricks for crafting your own short film in this visual journey.

Articles, VFX Breakdowns

Watch MPC’s VFX breakdown for ‘Nope’

Posted onMarch 9, 2023March 21, 2023

The studio showcases the Nope work in this video.

Articles

Tom Hanks’ cat in ‘A Man Called Otto’ is a mix of live-action, greenscreen and CG

Posted onMarch 8, 2023March 21, 2023

Behind the invisible effects for the cat, environments, weather and de-ageing in the film.

Articles

‘The Cokey stuffy would be resting on a C-stand, and the actors would go up and touch her nose and interact with her’

Posted onMarch 7, 2023

Wētā FX breaks down their delivery of Cokey the bear for ‘Cocaine Bear’.

VFX Breakdowns

Watch Crafty Apes’ ‘National Treasure’ s1 VFX breakdown

Posted onMarch 7, 2023

The VFX studios showcases their work for the series.

Articles

The making of M.O.D.O.K.

Posted onMarch 7, 2023March 25, 2023

UPDATED: How the ‘Ant-Man: Quantumania’ visual effects team turned Corey Stoll into a cybernetically enhanced creature with an oversized head.

Articles, Podcasts

A deep dive into Cinesite’s visual effects for ‘Wakanda Forever’

Posted onMarch 6, 2023

The latest b&a podcast is all about the film’s Boston bridge chase and surrounding scenes.

Articles, VFX Breakdowns

Go behind the scenes of the VFX in ‘Bullet Train’

Posted onMarch 6, 2023

Sony has made this featurette available online, focusing on the virtual production and previs work in the film.

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Recent Posts

  • These students made an insane replica miniature CIA vault from ‘Mission: Impossible’
  • ‘These were the amazing tools that we had at our disposal and got to use’
  • Generating 3D models and meshes from text prompts? We asked Shutterstock about its team-up with NVIDIA
  • ‘We got them running full tilt and acting all crazy, but then we also sped it up 8%’
  • Celebrate the release of the new 4K UHD ‘Dragonslayer’ SteelBook release with this Phil Tippett gallery

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