Roland Emmerich is coming to FMX
And he'll be sitting down on stage with befores & afters to celebrate the 30th anniversary of 'Independence Day'!
All ‘The Lost Bus’ visual effects breakdowns in one place
Videos from ILM, beloFX, Cinesite, RISE FX and Outpost VFX.
See the full list of VES Awards winners right here
Avatar: Fire and Ash won seven awards and KPop Demon Hunters won three. See all the award winners below.
From virtual production to final VFX: how ‘Mercy’ was made
Go behind the scenes with DNEG. Timur Bekmambetov’s Mercy, starring Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson, sees Pratt’s detective character need to prove
How Wētā FX made young Will, Vecna 2.0, the Mind Flayer and some badass Demogorgons in ‘Stranger Things 5’
A look at photoreal CG faces, AI re-lighting, BBQ steak reference, optical flow and iPad AR tools and a sneaky Texas Switch
Sci-Tech honorees include rendering developments, artistic looks in animation and more
See the full list here.
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Here are the VFX Oscar nominees!
Find out more about each nominated film.
Director and animator Raman Hui on his PDI beginnings
From Hong Kong, to early CGI commercials, Antz, Shrek and more.
‘Fire and Ash’ leads VES nominations
Find out all the nominees for the 24th Annual VES Awards.
So, which films made the VFX Oscar Bake-Off list?
Find out here.
The 157-page befores & afters deep dive magazine on the VFX of ‘Sinners’ is now available for free
Read the entire digital magazine here, full of behind the scenes info and imagery.
Learn on set VFX stories this World VFX Day
All the World VFX Day sessions are happening over 15 hours on 8th December!
Season 2 of ‘Gen V’ features one character who can store people in his anus
How *that* Black Hole scene was done, plus other visual effects in the show.
IAMAG Master Classes will feature ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ production designer Dylan Cole
Dylan Cole returns to IAMAG for Master Classes ’26 in Montreal.
How the original ‘The Running Man’ predicted the rise of the deep fake
The Arnold Schwarzenegger film foresaw both the use of digital VFX and machine learning. An excerpt from issue 3 of befores &
This preview for the new S. S. Rajamouli film ‘Varanasi’ already has millions and millions of views. Here’s how it was made
Visual effects supervisor Srinivas Mohan breaks it down.
How ‘The Bad Guys 2’ filmmakers approached stylization and combining 2D and 3D FX
The tools and techniques that gave the sequel its hand-crafted look. With EXCLUSIVE breakdown videos.
The race to get a model jet ready for filming on Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’
The jet scenes in the film were realized with a combination of a modified off-the-shelf model plane kit and digital visual effects.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 in Hong Kong: a preview
A look at what to expect with VFX and animation sessions at the conference.
‘Wicked: For Good’: the VFX team preview the upcoming film
They also reflect on being part of the Wicked universe.
New making-of ‘Avatar’ book is coming
Go behind the scenes.
Why two dams were built for that explosive scene in ‘The Phoenician Scheme’
Behind the scenes with miniature unit supervisor Simon Weisse.
Doug Chiang reflects on the day he first used Photoshop
How the famed designer jumped onto the tool during the shift into digital at ILM.
How the directors of ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ implemented something they called ‘sneaky deep’
How they combined silly and ‘stupid’ scenes with meaningful moments in the blockbuster Sony Pictures Animation/Netflix film.
Why this VFX breakdown video from Todd Vaziri is SOOOO good
You rarely get this kind of analysis about VFX shots.
Here’s the many different ways the title character of ‘M3GAN 2.0’ was made, both practically and digitally
Animatronic, performer in open and closed mask, posable doll, CG, face replacements (and all of the above).
Avatar: Fire and Ash
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Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation
How the right school helped this compositor land his latest credit on 'Invasion' season 3.
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