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.
Here’s how that crazy tsunami scene in Knock at the Cabin was made
FuseFX breaks down the water sims and comp work involved.
Treating ships like characters in the final episode of ‘Star Trek: Picard’
The VFX of the Borg cube and Enterprise-D.
The best of both worlds
Marrying practical miniatures with CG served perfectly on RRR’s dramatic bridge scene.
‘1899’: Framestore’s virtual production take-aways
Key lessons the visual effects studio learnt on the impressive virtual production series.
How the dragonborn in ‘D&D’ came to life with a new facial animatronics motion capture system
The animatronics and make-up effects behind ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.’
Urban Bradeško, aka the Explosions Guy, talks sparse GPU accelerated volumetric fluid solver Axiom
The latest episode of the befores & afters podcast is here!
Yep, pool noodles were part of this ‘Wakanda Forever’ suit from Legacy Effects
An excerpt from the practical effects issue of befores & afters magazine.
Explore the VFX work in s2 of ‘Carnival Row’ with Digital Domain and Goodbye Kansas
Both studios have published some fantastic VFX breakdowns of their work.
Go behind the scenes of the ‘The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special’ VFX with Framestore
The VFX studio has released its breakdown.
Inside the mind of Phil Tippett in the final stages of ‘MAD GOD’
Collaborator Webster Colcord captured MAD GOD documentary images on 16mm film, combined with digital and optical sound.
A preview of FMX with Mario Müller
The VFX and animation conference is happening April 25-28.
Watch DNEG’s ‘The Rings of Power’ VFX breakdown
Incredible invisible digital double work.
The CAFÉ conference will feature a preview ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ two weeks before the film opens
It's just one of the sessions at the Montreal VFX and animation event in May.
Making vampire chimps for ‘Let the Right One In’
Behind the scenes with Ingenuity Studios.
The history of markerless motion capture company Move.ai
How Move.ai started, and what its latest mobile app lets you do with markerless mocap.
Watch ReDefine’s ‘We Have a Ghost’ VFX breakdown
Bringing Ernest the ghost to, um, life.
Here’s why the fluid sims on ‘The Perfect Storm’ were so hard to do
VFX Notes has a special guest -- Habib Zargarpour - who discusses his role at ILM on the oceans for 'The Perfect
‘They talked to the puppet like an actor’
Spectral Motion breaks down their practical characters for ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities’. An excerpt from befores & afters magazine.
The befores & afters Patreon has evolved: get involved
See what the latest tiers are, including the new RETRO tier, to help support befores & afters.
See Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler (and their stunties) take on bluescreen filming for ‘Murder Mystery 2’
This behind the scenes featurette showcases the Eiffel Tower stunt work on the film (plus, bonus slide show of on-set imagery!)
‘You should put a camera on the robot’
Go behind the scenes with SISU Cinema Robotics and the precision imagery their ‘cinebots’ can pull off.
Avatar: Fire and Ash
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Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation
Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
From classroom to credits, with Campus VFX