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Go behind the scenes of Disney’s ‘Once Upon a Studio’
The entire short is available to watch, plus a bunch of behind the scenes clips.
How Framestore turned Hugh Grant into an Oompa Loompa for ‘Wonka’
A discussion about the process, but also about crafting comedy in visual effects.
Watch The Yard VFX’s ‘Dial of Destiny’ reel
Go behind the scenes.
Watch ILP’s VFX breakdown for ‘Ahsoka’
The VFX studio has released their reel for the Star Wars streaming series.
‘A grungy, gritty feel’
Behind the visual effects of Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire.
‘It’s almost like a painterly process to bring in these aberrations’
The Deep Defocus toolset at Wētā FX. An excerpt from issue #14 of befores & afters magazine.
Here’s the VFX Bake-Off list!
The ten films still in contention for the 96th Academy Award for Best Visual Effects have been announced.
How the biggest VFX moments in Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’ were made
Breaking down that confronting horse death by cannonball, the Battle of Waterloo, a fight on ice, crafting ships at sea, and invisible
Check out Savage’s VFX breakdown for the fight scene in ‘The Killer’
More impressive invisible effects from the film.
Watch Digital Domain’s ‘Ahsoka’ VFX breakdown
Lightsabers!
Hugo Guerra on directing his ZEISS CinCraft Scenario film
A full walk through of the planning, shooting and post involved in the film.
My top 5 highlights from SIGGRAPH Asia Sydney: ML and in-depth sessions on VFX
Rising Sun Picture's comprehensive look at their ML REVIZE set of tools was a big highlight of the week, which also included
Watch RSP’s VFX breakdown for ‘Dial of Destiny’
The VFX studio showcases its New York parade VFX, which included extensive greenscreen and face replacement work.
Check out RISE’s VFX breakdown for ‘Ghosted’
The out of control spinning restaurant, and some impressive stunt double face replacement work here.
We’ve got more with Habib Zargarpour on the VFX Notes podcast
A look back at his amazing VFX and games career, and venture into virtual production.
Watch ILP’s VFX breakdown for ‘Dial of Destiny’
Including the underwater sequence.
‘The pain comes in just making that early commitment to the creative vision’
'Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget' director Sam Fell on the challenges of making a new–and even more bold–Aardman stop-motion film.
The real-time tech used by Seth MacFarlane to make ‘The Orville: New Horizons’ and the ‘Ted’ TV series
The viz ViewScreen tools are out.
Wētā Workshop’s Richard Taylor on crafting the horrifying creature in ‘The Tank’
3D printing and mold making for the suit, and working on the animatronics and performance for an underwater creature.
Crafting a plane crash, and its aftermath, for ‘Society of the Snow’
Behind the scenes of J.A. Bayona’s tale of the 1972 Uruguayan rugby team air disaster.
Miniatures, LED walls and live-action animals stitched together: the VFX of ‘Poor Things’
How Union VFX helped craft the surreal and hyperreal world of this Emma Stone film.
Watch this collection of Doctor Who 60th anniversary series VFX breakdowns
Find these reels from REALTIME, Untold Studios and Painting Practice, plus an amazing Twitter thread from director Tom Kingsley.
How VFX turned Tom Hiddleston’s dance moves into painful-looking timeslipping scenes
Also, behind the scenes of Framestore’s spaghettification and the Yggdrasil finale in season 2 of ‘Loki’.
The AI/ML tools one VFX artist used for a new short horror film
Go behind the scenes with Freddy Chávez Olmos on 'BYE-BYE' and the actual AI and machine learning tools he used .
Issue #14 of befores & afters mag is out and goes deep into in-house VFX tools
From Spider-Verse to Transformers to the Little Mermaid: how bespoke tools brought these films to life.
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Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation
Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
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