What’s coming in Houdini 18
Get a glimpse in this video.
‘Stargate’ stories
Jeffrey A. Okun reflects on the somewhat tumultuous VFX history of the classic sci-fi film.
‘Captive State’: how the director and VFX studio collaborated
Getting visual effects on board, early.
More invisible VFX, this time for ‘Mindhunter’
Check out Artemple's VFX breakdown reel for season 2 of David Fincher's 'Mindhunter'.
Check out this different kind of VFX breakdown reel
VFX artist Daniel Magya reveals some of his work on 'Midsommar'.
How blue velcro stubs became the magnificent wings of ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’
The actors playing winged characters also practiced with stand-in backpacks that sprouted foam wings.
This driver
We all want to be him.
Tech preview: How Disney simulated that stunning water horse for ‘Frozen 2’
Plus, how a new tool called Swoop made the film's wind spirit character possible.
Go behind the scenes with ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’
Mr. X breaks it down.
‘Like you’re there’
That really is how this Unreal Engine Apollo 11 AR experience felt.
What Brad Bird is watching (and thinks you should, too)
The director shares a bunch of his favorite live action films, animated features and musicals.
The tech of ‘Terminator 2’ – an oral history
Everything from Make Sticky to Body Sock and painting a grid onto Robert Patrick.
Hear directly from women in FX
Watch the full 45 minute SideFX panel from SIGGRAPH 2019.
A whole lot of ‘Stranger Things 3’ VFX reels in one place
Get your breakdown fix right here.
It’s hard to look away from these incredible deep fake impressions
It's Arnie! It's Clooney! It's George W. It's...all of them.
The big VFX and animation talks at SIGGRAPH Asia Brisbane
ILM, Weta Digital, MPC, Pixar, Animal Logic and Framestore are all going to be there.
Simulating the ‘Inception’ miniature fortress collapse
One of these things is not like the other.
Procedural pores, modeling teeth, messy fighting and other new things Weta Digital did to turn Will Smith into a 23-year-old
Weta Digital also had to work with 40 times the usual data on ‘Gemini Man’.
‘Klaus’ is coming, and you’re going to be fascinated about how this 2D animated film was made
Animated in 2D, 'Klaus' has a unique approach to texturing and lighting.
A brief history of Will Smith’s incredible digital alter egos
The actor has been ‘fully CG’ and a digi-double in many of his films.
Motion controlled robots, controlled by…Maya!
How you can control industrial robots with the open-source Maya plugin Mimic.
You might be surprised how Thing was made for ‘The Addams Family’
'Casting' a hand was a tricky job.
The big films of 2019 that don’t feel like they have any VFX in them (but do)
'Joker' is one of the big films of the year that seems to eschew a lot of CG, but it's also another
‘We built a video game, the purpose of which was to make a movie’
A new featurette on the virtual production behind 'The Lion King'.
Do you love VFX breakdowns? Do you love ‘Stranger Things 3’? Then get ready…
These brand new reels from Rodeo FX show a lot of the process for their Mind Flayer work (and also exploding rats,
Observations from an ‘Ad Astra’ comp supe
Check out these MPC scenes from the film and commentary on the compositing challenges behind the work.
Giant pill bugs as wheels, multiple puppeteers in greenscreen, and a fast moving carriage…no worries
How that insane carriage rescue in ‘The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance’ was pulled off with VFX by DNEG.
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Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
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