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?
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.
Issue #58: The visual effects of Fallout, season 2
Issue #57: The visual effects of IT: Welcome to Derry
