Looking for the not-to-miss VFX presentations at VIEW? Here’s our picks Our top 5 must-see sessions on visual effects at VIEW Conference. September 30, 2024 Articles
Going old-school with the VFX on ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ How Scanline VFX crafted a range of 1980s-inspired effects shots, many of them of the invisible variety, for the Eddie Murphy film. September 19, 2024 Articles
‘House of the Dragon’ s2: befores and afters with Rodeo FX Go behind the scenes with Rodeo FX visual effects supervisor Martin Pelletier on some of his studio's work for season 2 of September 13, 2024 Articles
Congratulations to the VFX Emmy award winners Shogun and Ripley took out the awards. September 9, 2024 Articles
‘Alien: Romulus’ director Fede Álvarez and ‘Fallout’ director Jonah Nolan will be at VIEW Find out more in this special preview podcast with VIEW Conference artistic director Maria Elena Gutierrez, PLUS how you can get a September 1, 2024 Articles
Miniatures, animatronics and even oil paintings were part of the effects of ‘Time Bandits’ The old-school (and new-school) effects used to make the Taika Waititi series. Warning: this article contains spoilers! August 21, 2024 Articles
Exclusive: Alec Gillis is speaking at VIEW Conference on practical effects and ‘Alien: Romulus’ Gillis joins a host of effects and animation artists and other filmmakers in Turin, Italy. August 19, 2024 Articles
Behind the mask: how intricate facial animation was added onto Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool How Wētā FX crafted the lead character’s facial performance in Deadpool & Wolverine with Nuke and some machine learning techniques. August 14, 2024 Articles
Inside the intricate worlds of ‘Dark Matter’ How FOLKS VFX helped create many environments for the Apple TV+ show. August 5, 2024 Articles
Holey moley we just got a ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ documentary with shot setup re-creations from OTOY It's called '2001: Creating Kubrick's Space Odyssey'. July 24, 2024 Articles
The VFX of ‘Eric’: crafting 1980s New York City environments, and a novel approach to 1980s screen replacements Behind the visual effects of the Netflix limited series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. July 12, 2024 Articles
Erasing Lieutenant Dan’s legs, from the point of view of a digital artist on ‘Forrest Gump’ ILM computer graphic artist Kathleen Beeler recalls the intricate paint work involved. July 8, 2024 Articles
How a tracking algorithm helped insert Tom Hanks into news scenes with historical figures in ‘Forrest Gump’ A look back at the early days of tracking and matchmoving at ILM for the film. July 5, 2024 Articles
Illumination’s illustration of the animation process is fun A large illustration with some info boxes guides you through. July 3, 2024 Articles
Here’s how Will Smith and Martin Lawrence took on a giant albino alligator in ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ Behind the visual effects with Framestore. June 28, 2024 Articles
Patreon: How a key line made its way into ‘The Lion King’ A fun nugget of info with Brenda Chapman! June 27, 2024 Articles
How Death, the talking macaw, was brought to life in ‘Tuesday’ Behind the on-set performance and visual effects in Daina O. Pusić’s film, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. June 27, 2024 Articles
Behind the scenes of Robert Zemeckis’ ‘HERE’ Including a brief look at the de-ageing and virtual production work on the film. June 27, 2024 Articles
Making young Furiosa How Rising Sun Pictures employed machine learning techniques to translate the look of Anya Taylor-Joy’s Furiosa to the actor playing her younger June 26, 2024 Articles
SFX supervisor Brian Johnson discusses ‘Thunderbirds’, ‘Star Wars’, ‘Space: 1999’ and more The SFX legend recounts his career in this interview. June 20, 2024 Articles
Patreon: John Bruno on the original Slimer and optical compositing from ‘Ghostbusters’ The making of Slimer, and more! June 13, 2024 Articles
The 10th Annual VES NY Celebration and how you can attend A look at the awards, how to grab tickets and a breakdown of the event with VES NY board chairman Jose L. June 13, 2024 Articles
‘It’s like a constantly evolving three-dimensional puzzle’ The VFX of ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’, incl the crazy War Rig scenes, impressive wasteland, immense rotoscoping, and how Anya Taylor-Joy’s June 8, 2024 Articles
The VFX of ‘Fallout’: shooting on an LED volume on film, crafting one-eyed digital humans, mixing practical and digital, and more Visual effects supervisor Jay Worth on the extensive visual effects of the Amazon series. June 5, 2024 Articles
See the new features in Golaem 9 in this release video The crowd tool updates include a new animation engine, ways to create shots without simulation, foot locking, and an ML deformer. June 5, 2024 Articles
Patreon: ‘The Flintstones’ at 30, perhaps a forgotten turning point in VFX history A new retro article for Patreons! June 4, 2024 Articles