‘Enola Holmes’: behind the scenes of the train sequence
A new VFX featurette.
Twinning: how to decide how to film splitscreens, and how to comp them
A breakdown of the ‘An American Pickle’ Seth-Rogen-as-two-characters shots.
Get your practical FX fix with this enormous collection of interviews
Part of Berton Pierce's 'Sense of Scale' doco.
Here’s how ‘The Drew Barrymore Show’ is operating during COVID-19
CBS VFX is behind the real-time approach.
Watch this previously unseen ‘Mandalorian’ previs reel from The Third Floor
The studio also gives new insights into the virtual art department approach on the show.
When wolves attack
Milk VFX breaks down a single scene from ‘Cursed’.
What a delight seeing how ILM created the Razor Crest miniature for ‘The Mandalorian’
Models, miniatures and motion control!
Creating large gatherings in a post-lockdown world
Using an example of a funeral scene from ‘The Crown’, Union VFX outlines how it can be done.
Practical effects: learn to make this ‘The Thing’ title burn
InCamera begins.
MARZ demos its work on s2 of ‘Umbrella Academy’
See how the VFX studio handled several different VFX challenges.
What life was like as the VFX producer on ‘Mulan’
Diana Giorgiutti discusses her day-to-day on the film, go-to production tools, and the evolution of the Phoenix.
Step-by-step: how to make your own VFX-heavy music video
Behind the scenes of Ivan Dorn’s ‘Wasted’ promo with director and VFX specialist Denys Shchukin.
The VFX superheroes making super-powers for ‘Project Power’
Different Framestore artists weigh-in on their contributions to the Netflix show.
A new YouTube channel is highlighting in-camera SFX techniques
Learn some DYI practical FX techniques.
An hour+ long behind the scenes on the ‘Dark Knight’ trilogy
Including some nice making of footage.
A brief look at what’s available in mocap glove tech
Finger tracking has never been so doable.
A visual journey into Scanline’s ‘Stranger Things’ machine
Go step-by-step into the VFX of the Russian machine.
Tomm Moore on his distinctive style of animated filmmaking
The 'Wolfwalkers' director is one of the speakers at VIEW Conference 2020.
Making Supergirl and Shazam! fly
A DC Fandome panel.
Watch this ‘Flash’ VFX featurette
A new video on the show's visual effects.
How virtual production techniques were used on ‘The One and Only Ivan’
MPC VFX supe Nick Davis breaks down the techniques.
Coming soon: a whole heap of new ILM StageCraft stages
Including for use during filming of 'Thor: Love and Thunder' in Sydney.
Digital Domain’s next-level of facial capture
The VFX studio announces Masquerade 2.0.
Designs of war: ‘Lovecraft Country’
Rodeo FX's Deak Ferrand details the concepts behind the show’s opening battle.
The special real-time course for VFX artists impacted by the pandemic
All about Escape Studios and Unreal Engine’s Unreal For VFX Bootcamp.
‘It has become feasible to generate useful movies with the computer’
Ed Catmull, soon to speak at VIEW Conference, saw the potential for computer animation early on. Very, early on.
Seeing Jack Black get cyber-scanned for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater is…awesome
Just watch the whole video, really.
Avatar: Fire and Ash
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Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
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