A round-up of the big VFX and animation tech news from the past week.
Author: Ian Failes
Watch these 3 Imageworks ‘Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ VFX breakdowns
Behind the scenes of the studio’s digi-doubles and CG city work.
‘You’re going to have to remind me, which are the CG dogs?’
A deep dive into the digital dogs MPC Film made for ‘Cruella’.
VFX Artifacts: The Dinosaur Input Device
A chat with Craig Hayes about the stop-motion armature input device made during ‘Jurassic Park’.
The virtual production behind ‘Stowaway’s’ space walk scenes
How Unity’s virtual camera offering was used by the filmmakers, with exclusive video.
I kinda love that you can bid on this Phil Tippett video cassette
Tape contains original animatics for the ‘Jedi’ Rancor sequence.
How motion capture for ‘The Stand’s’ raunchy scenes was all done remotely by a single performer
The pandemic required the show’s VFX team to quickly pivot the approach to these crazy crowd scenes.
Go on set of Coldplay’s ‘Higher Power’ music video
Greenscreen, mocap and more.
Behind the scenes of ‘Sweet Tooth’
A quick look at Zoic Studios’ visual effects work for the Netflix series.
VFX Firsts: What was the first previs made for a film?
Previs has a rich history, find out more in the podcast.
On the set of ‘F9’
Actor John Cena and director Justin Lin discuss a scene.
befores & afters at befores & afters: The making of ‘Mortal Kombat’
Rising Sun Pictures VFX supe Dennis Jones commentates on befores & afters images from the film.
It’s hard to not love this VFX breakdown
The making of the VFX of ‘El Vecino’, by El Ranchito.
How Rodeo made their Yahima for ‘Lovecraft Country’
Fascinating look at practical, live-action and digital VFX for this sequence.
VFX Notes: Ep 1 – Actor replacement, UE5 and what exactly is gamma?
A new podcast from Hugo’s Desk and befores & afters is here!
