‘The Way of Water’, ‘Across the Spider-Verse’, ‘Elemental’ tech talks and more revealed at SIGGRAPH 2023 ·May 26, 2023 The conference's 'secret weapon' Talks sessions are now available to browse through.
It certainly *looked* like Michelle Williams was playing the piano in ‘The Fabelmans’… ·May 24, 2023 …but actually that was the result of some very neat visual effects work from Industrial Light & Magic.
How turning off the rasterize button helped make the ‘Tetris’ retro pixel art scenes possible ·May 23, 2023 Go behind the scenes of the 8-Bit inspired graphics in the film with Coffee & TV.
The 2-day virtual production shoot that led to the most touching moments in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ ·May 20, 2023 Also, how the stunning CG dog Cosmo was created, and the insane 120 fps shoot behind that corridor oner fight scene.
The challenge of finger and hand removal (and 3D scanning a donkey) ·May 17, 2023 Behind the scenes with Union VFX on ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’.
How that crazy Dragon’s Breath top-down shot in ‘John Wick 4’ was planned out ·May 12, 2023 Behind the previs for the Paris apartment ‘oners’, by NVIZ.
A visual journey into DNEG’s dragon, unicorn and Tree of Life in ‘Fury of the Gods’ ·May 10, 2023 Go behind the scenes of these specific elements in the film.
Why Steven Spielberg decided to use LED walls for the first time on ‘The Fabelmans’ ·May 9, 2023 How the director relied on ILM’s StageCraft virtual production set-up for the New Jersey tornado sequence.
Inside ‘John Wick 4’s’ insane Arc de Triomphe scene and the top-down Dragon’s Breath gunfight ·May 4, 2023 How the visual effects teams on the film helped orchestrate the mayhem.
From green guys to smokey simulations ·April 29, 2023 How that stunning nichevo’ya battle in Shadow and Bone was made.
Here’s how that crazy tsunami scene in Knock at the Cabin was made ·April 26, 2023 FuseFX breaks down the water sims and comp work involved.
‘1899’: Framestore’s virtual production take-aways ·April 21, 2023 Key lessons the visual effects studio learnt on the impressive virtual production series.
How the dragonborn in ‘D&D’ came to life with a new facial animatronics motion capture system ·April 19, 2023 The animatronics and make-up effects behind ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.’
Explore the VFX work in s2 of ‘Carnival Row’ with Digital Domain and Goodbye Kansas ·April 15, 2023 Both studios have published some fantastic VFX breakdowns of their work.
Inside the mind of Phil Tippett in the final stages of ‘MAD GOD’ ·April 14, 2023 Collaborator Webster Colcord captured MAD GOD documentary images on 16mm film, combined with digital and optical sound.
The CAFÉ conference will feature a preview ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ two weeks before the film opens ·April 11, 2023 It's just one of the sessions at the Montreal VFX and animation event in May.
The befores & afters Patreon has evolved: get involved ·April 6, 2023 See what the latest tiers are, including the new RETRO tier, to help support befores & afters.
‘You should put a camera on the robot’ ·April 4, 2023 Go behind the scenes with SISU Cinema Robotics and the precision imagery their ‘cinebots’ can pull off.
How Industrial Light & Magic managed to deliver 48 one-off VFX shots for ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ in the last few months of production ·March 31, 2023 A number of the opening space scenes, arrival on Pandora sequences, and views of Bridgehead were ILM visual effects shots.
The THEN & NOW sessions are on again at FMX 2023! ·March 29, 2023 Stop-motion puppet fabrication, Dragonheart's animation and a look back at Gravity.
These students made an insane replica miniature CIA vault from ‘Mission: Impossible’ ·March 23, 2023 Yep, the one Tom Cruise breaks into, and befores & afters got a special visual insight into how it was built.
‘These were the amazing tools that we had at our disposal and got to use’ ·March 22, 2023 What the VFX supe on ‘Quantumania’ liked so much about having StageCraft and a range of other tools on the film. befores & afters has already published a few pieces…
Generating 3D models and meshes from text prompts? We asked Shutterstock about its team-up with NVIDIA ·March 22, 2023 Customized Shutterstock content will be trained with NVIDIA Picasso generative AI cloud service.
‘We got them running full tilt and acting all crazy, but then we also sped it up 8%’ ·March 21, 2023 How practical and digital combined to make that crazy episode 5 ‘Last of Us’ clicker battle.
Celebrate the release of the new 4K UHD ‘Dragonslayer’ SteelBook release with this Phil Tippett gallery ·March 21, 2023 Re-visiting the go-motion work by Phil Tippett at ILM.
How to plan for huge VFX sequences: the VFX supe and VFX producer on ‘Slumberland’ ·March 20, 2023 How do you get two characters to ride a giant flying goose, anyway?