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Go inside ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’s’ Orgoscope
How Imageworks built the planetoid inside and out.
Catch a glimpse behind the scenes of ‘The Little Mermaid’ in this video
It comes from National Geographic, revealing some of the bluescreen 'tuning fork' filming.
Ian and Hugo debate the practical/digital debate with ‘The Last of Us’
It's the newest episode of the VFX Notes podcast!
There are 17 stitches in that insane ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ oner
Here’s how Wētā FX helped make it possible, and what things you should look out for in the background of the fight
Real-time depth compositing with an AI-assist
Behind the system Wētā FX invented for ‘The Way of Water’.
How ‘Andor’s’ real London locations were the basis of Coruscant finals
Turning the Barbican into a Star Wars building.
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
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?
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