Here’s how Industrial Light & Magic orchestrated Luthen’s ‘lightsaber’ ship in ‘Andor’
Plus, behind the scenes on ship builds to replicate the ‘miniatures look’, Ferrix’s shipyard, and Coruscant’s cityscapes.
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How those underwater scenes were made in ‘Wakanda Forever’
Watch this new Marvel featurette.
Go behind the scenes of JUNG_E
This featurette includes VFX making of material.
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The volumetric capture crowd tech behind ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’
A step-by-step on how 700 terabytes worth of volumetric capture was crafted for the concert crowds in the Whitney Houston biopic.
The VFX Oscar noms are out!
Congrats to the nominees, and here's how befores & afters covered each project.
How the ‘Pinocchio’ VFX team took the stop-motion further
They crafted environments, water, snow, rain and many other effects for the Guillermo del Toro film.
VIDEO: Explore this VFX breakdown for ‘The Pale Blue Eye’
Director Scott Cooper's film, now on Netflix, features a range of invisible effects supervised by Jake Braver and crafted by studios including
The latest issue of befores & afters magazine goes deep on VFX art departments
The designs in Nope, The Witcher and more--from the point of view of the VFX studios.
‘The Voice in the Hollow’ is an Unreal Engine short with a difference
Made in UE5 with the support of Gnomon and Epic Games. Plus, there's some really interesting mocap and other techniques used by
This VFX studio has made a standalone AI app for de-aging
Vanity AI from MARZ is designed for 2D aging, de-aging, cosmetic, wig, and prosthetic fixes.
New compositing tool Autograph released by Left Angle
It's designed for motion design, visual effects, and 3D compositing.
Check out this ‘Doctor Strange 2’ Imageworks breakdown
Showcasing Wanda's attack.
Watch MPC’s ‘Wednesday’ VFX breakdown
Monsters!
A CG test for Thing in ‘Wednesday’ involved several tests including animating a short with a dancing appendage
Behind the scenes of the visual effects for Thing in the hit Tim Burton show.
The 21st Annual VES Awards nominees–see them all here
Read the whole list.
Real and synthetic: the VFX of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
One of the most incredible films of 2022.
Behind the scenes of s3 of ‘His Dark Materials’
A new featurette from BBC is out.
Framestore on designing an immersive exhibition for the Science Museum in London
What goes into making immersive exhibition experiences.
The ‘Deadliest Catch’ stock footage in ‘Jurassic World Dominion’, behind the visual effects of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, and other new things I learned at the VFX Bake-Off
Some extra things shared in breakdowns and discussion at the Academy event. The Academy VFX Branch hosted its Visual Effects Bake-Off on
‘A massive 5 million polygon scan of the actual cave in Thailand was brought to life so we could extend our practical sets’
The underwater, cave builds and invisible visual effects of 'Thirteen Lives'.
The game played in ‘The Adam Project’ was an actual playable piece of real-time content
The story behind how Unity made the game in the film.
Lots of water: inside the VFX of ‘Five Days at Memorial’
How a giant water tank, a bevy of bluescreens and some innovative water sims helped make this Hurricane Katrina story possible.
Here’s how DreamWorks lent a whole new brand of stylized look and feel to ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’
Behind the design and the tools utilized by the studio on the film. If there’s one trend stirring up the feature animated
Watch UPP’s ‘Black Adam’ VFX breakdown
The VFX studio has released this reel.
Scott Eaton on the state of A.I. in art
Generative art, Midjourney, A.I., neural networks, machine learning: what it means for artists.
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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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