How ‘Andor’s’ real London locations were the basis of Coruscant finals
Turning the Barbican into a Star Wars building.
Author: Ian Failes
On The Set Pic: ‘Fubar’
Behind the scenes of the train sequence.
Just add bats
On the 30th anniversary of 'Cliffhanger', a look at the, er, very efficient bat art direction for a particular scene.
‘If this is going to work, we really have to cover Paul Thomas Anderson shots’
The co-founder of Wonder Dynamics breaks down how the AI VFX tool Wonder Studio was made for storytellers.
‘The Way of Water’, ‘Across the Spider-Verse’, ‘Elemental’ tech talks and more revealed at SIGGRAPH 2023
The conference's 'secret weapon' Talks sessions are now available to browse through.
Optical Dogs, dailies and the origins of ‘CBB’: 40 years of ‘Jedi’
We look back at the four decade anniversary of 'Return of the Jedi' with Industrial Light & Magic’s production supervisor on the film, Patricia Rose Duignan.
It certainly *looked* like Michelle Williams was playing the piano in ‘The Fabelmans’…
…but actually that was the result of some very neat visual effects work from Industrial Light & Magic.
How turning off the rasterize button helped make the ‘Tetris’ retro pixel art scenes possible
Go behind the scenes of the 8-Bit inspired graphics in the film with Coffee & TV.
How ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ used virtual production to plan a train station scene
...and how it also used a truck stuffie to run over Elizabeth Moss!
The 2-day virtual production shoot that led to the most touching moments in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’
Also, how the stunning CG dog Cosmo was created, and the insane 120 fps shoot behind that corridor oner fight scene.
The challenge of finger and hand removal (and 3D scanning a donkey)
Behind the scenes with Union VFX on ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’.
We talk a lot about stop-motion time-lapses in our VFX Notes ep on Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’
(And we make the push for CG time-lapses, too!)
Watch MPC’s ‘Quantumania’ VFX breakdown
Quantum realm revealed.
How this short film was a test bed for rigging and stylization tools, and new real-time compositing in Unreal Engine
Watch and learn from 'Little Bird'.
Issue #11 is here, and it’s all about AI in VFX and animation
100 pages on new AI tools, how VFX studios use machine learning.
‘The Matrix Reloaded’ is 20. What it did for digital humans was HUGE
A celebration of Universal Capture, and what was invented at ESC for the Matrix sequels.
How that crazy Dragon’s Breath top-down shot in ‘John Wick 4’ was planned out
Behind the previs for the Paris apartment ‘oners’, by NVIZ.
A visual journey into DNEG’s dragon, unicorn and Tree of Life in ‘Fury of the Gods’
Go behind the scenes of these specific elements in the film.
Why Steven Spielberg decided to use LED walls for the first time on ‘The Fabelmans’
How the director relied on ILM’s StageCraft virtual production set-up for the New Jersey tornado sequence.
The process of postvis on ‘Cocaine Bear’
How do you add a bear to plates and help create a performance?
Inside ‘John Wick 4’s’ insane Arc de Triomphe scene and the top-down Dragon’s Breath gunfight
How the visual effects teams on the film helped orchestrate the mayhem.
‘We have buckets of entrails’
On the set of Carnival Row with creature and make-up effects supervisor Nick Dudman.
It’s Bamfing time!
Has there ever quite been anything as cool as the original Bamfing effect in ‘X2’? UPDATED!
Bringing ‘Matilda’ to life with more VFX than you might at first realize
How Cinesite and other studios crafted the visual effects of Matilda.
From green guys to smokey simulations
How that stunning nichevo’ya battle in Shadow and Bone was made.
Watch this ‘Fast X’ stunt behind the scenes
This b-roll video is now online.