Behind the VFX of ‘The Christmas Chronicles 2’
Weta Digital explains how they created elves, Jack-a-lotes, Santa’s flying sleigh, snowy environments and...a Yule Cat.
Monster molding for ‘Come Play’
MR. X on the combination of practical and digital for the creature Larry.
A visual journey into the VFX of ‘The Good Lord Bird’
Breaking down key VFX scenes from the show.
It’s here: issue #1 of befores & afters in print
You can now order a print version of befores & afters!
How Digital Domain aged David Beckham
They used their new face-swapping tech Charlatan for this Malaria Must Die campaign.
Unreal Engine 4.26 is out
Epic Games updates virtual production toolset, hair and fur, and other features.
In the LoUPE
Inside Tangent Labs’ new cloud-based 3D asset management and production tool.
‘Black Swan’ is almost 10 – re-visit the film’s VFX reel
Such a great mix of invisible FX.
There’s a lot happening at SIGGRAPH Asia 2020
It all starts December 4th.
Multi-angle on ‘Jingle Jangle’: Part 3—Building Buddy
Matching CG robot to on-set prop.
Watch the ViZARTS Summit, including sessions on virtual production
The Mandalorian was part of the discussion.
VFX roundtable: season 4 of ‘The Crown’
Framestore’s team discuss turning Spain into Australia, animating an injured stag and deep fake face replacements.
Exclusive: Framestore’s ‘Lovecraft Country’ Shoggoth breakdown
Watch the befores and afters video.
You definitely want to see these old-school ‘Toy Story’ featurettes
A look at Pixar's animation and modeling process from 'back in the day'.
Multi-angle on ‘Jingle Jangle’: Part 2—Making a matador
The Don Juan toy and its journey to the screen.
Multi-angle on ‘Jingle Jangle’: Part 1—the storybook sequences
How Framestore crafted the fully-CG scenes.
This year’s b’Ars VFX event includes a Weta Digital reunion
Plus sessions on Project Power, virtual production and more.
Hello, Douglas
Digital Domain made a real-time autonomous digital human.
A new kind of animation
The making of ‘The Liberator’.
Eagle vs. meerkat: behind Weta Digital’s stunning Unreal Engine short
Fur and feathers!
It’s 25 years since ‘Goldeneye’ – a huge miniatures film
Revisit some of the film's models with Nigel Blake.
Here’s how ‘generative scheduling’ is going to work in Shotgun
More about the machine learning addition to the Autodesk tool.
News in real-time and digital humans: Epic Games acquires tech of Hyprsense
Hyprsense is known for real-time facial anim.
Making the virtual production-made ‘Gods of Mars’
Watch the behind the scenes featurette.
Remote mocap, deep fakes and Donald Trump
(And Harry Shearer).
Watch this ‘King Kong’ featurette on the T. Rex fight
Key team members break it down.
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.
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