VFX supe Mike Fink chats ‘Blade Runner’ props, ‘Batman Returns’ mattes and miniatures, and the lost shots of ‘Golden Compass’
Gear up for an in-depth chat, straight from FMX, with the Oscar winning visual effects supervisor.
Issue #19 of the print mag looks at a stunning array of invisible effects
Covering those incredible seamless shots in recent films and episodic.
Go behind the scenes of a dragon chase in ‘House of the Dragon’
Featuring virtual production shooting in season 2, episode 3.
Inside the visual effects of ‘Inside Out 2’
Character rigging, hair, particles, rendering and that crazy memory orb avalanche.
‘The build was similar to an ape with a lizard squished inside of it’
How Alt.vfx delivered the sinister Helen creature for ‘YuYu Hakusho’. A new excerpt from befores & afters magazine.
Here’s how Will Smith and Martin Lawrence took on a giant albino alligator in ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’
Behind the visual effects with Framestore.
See Crafty Apes’ VFX for ‘Unfrosted’
Including the deepfake Johnny Carson.
Patreon: How a key line made its way into ‘The Lion King’
A fun nugget of info with Brenda Chapman!
How Death, the talking macaw, was brought to life in ‘Tuesday’
Behind the on-set performance and visual effects in Daina O. Pusić’s film, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Behind the scenes of Robert Zemeckis’ ‘HERE’
Including a brief look at the de-ageing and virtual production work on the film.
Making young Furiosa
How Rising Sun Pictures employed machine learning techniques to translate the look of Anya Taylor-Joy’s Furiosa to the actor playing her younger
See Whiskytree’s VFX breakdown for ‘Masters of the Air’
The work includes flying scenes, environments and that incredible Paris establisher.
How to make a dragon
Behind the dragon by One of Us in ‘Damsel’. A new excerpt from befores & afters magazine.
How the action was previs’d in ‘Furiosa’
A new behind the scenes featurette about PROXi's Toybox previs done for Furiosa in Unreal Engine.
How those nuclear explosions were made for ‘Fallout’
Breaking down the nukes with RISE, as well as wasteland environments, vertibirds and battle shots.
A 30min roundtable on the VFX of ‘Ahsoka’? Yes, please
Ahsoka creator Dave Filoni, and ILM's production visual effects supervisor Richard Bluff, animation supervisor Paul Kavanaugh, and visual effects supervisor Enrico Damm
SFX supervisor Brian Johnson discusses ‘Thunderbirds’, ‘Star Wars’, ‘Space: 1999’ and more
The SFX legend recounts his career in this interview.
How on set LiDAR scanning works
LiDAR and photogrammetry specialist company Visualskies breaks down its process. A new excerpt from befores & afters magazine.
Check out this official ‘Fallout’ VFX breakdown
Showcasing set pieces, LED wall shoot and creatures of the wasteland. And jetpack flying man!
On The Set Pic: ‘The Umbrella Academy’, s4
(L to R) Colm Feore as Reginald Hargreeves, Aidan Gallagher as Number Five in 'The Umbrella Academy'.
Learn about lens profiling in VFX, and more
A recent webinar from Framestore's Robert Winter about his work on 'Rebel Moon' includes a very interesting section on matching the specific
Check out Cause and FX’s VFX breakdown for ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ s5
In this breakdown, Cause and FX showcase their work for the Eternal Archives environment from episode 8.
Patreon: ‘Tarzan’ turns 25 – a look back at Deep Canvas
Painting 3D geometry.
How multiple Robert Downey Jr.’s appeared on screen in ‘The Sympathizer’
Behind the scenes of the HBO series.
The on set visual effects experience for invisible effects
The making of ‘Fargo’s fifth installment. An excerpt from befores & afters magazine.
The impressive array of seamless VFX shots in ‘Ripley’
That boat scene, the environments, and shots you may not even have thought were VFX ones.
Patreon: John Bruno on the original Slimer and optical compositing from ‘Ghostbusters’
The making of Slimer, and more!
Get my new book in PRINT or on KINDLE.
Issue #67: The visual effects of Masters of the Universe.
Latest limited edition t-shirt: Pseudopod.
