More of the SIGGRAPH 2026 schedule has been published
A huge number of Talks have been announced, covering projects like Fire and Ash, Stranger Things 5, Toy Story 5, and more.
‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’, ‘Project Hail Mary’ to be featured in SIGGRAPH 2026 Production Sessions
It's a big, big year of Production Sessions at SIGGRAPH.
The visual effects in ‘The Bride!’ that you may not have noticed
Environment builds, plus how that falling down the stairs shot was achieved, and how the re-animation of the Bride was done.
VES On-Set VFX Data Collection and Usage Guide released
A new guide for using and capturing on-set data for visual effects.
How those fiery scenes in ‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’ were crafted
Behind the scenes with One of Us.
The magazines coming soon from befores & afters (there are so many!)
A heads up on the films and episodic series that we will be covering.
Paddington’s journey from London to Peru was made with old-school techniques
The National Film and Television School's Model Making students helped create this fun map sequence for Paddington in Peru.
Go behind the scenes of this fun TMNT / Magic: The Gathering commercial
Including the stand-in performer, and a look at the live-action/2D animation approach.
The making of ‘Wonder Man’
Behind the invisible visual effects in the Marvel series.
How that enormous goldfish was made in ‘One Piece’
EYELINE breaks down the giant goldfish, and the dinosaur scenes, from season 2.
Olivier Gondry on the making of Kylie Minogue’s ‘Come Into My World’
We revisit this making of article in light of the new Margot Robbie CHANEL ad directed by Michel Gondry.
And the Oscar for Best Visual Effects goes to…
A huge congratulations to Avatar: Fire and Ash!
FMX 2026 is nearly here, and so is the Then & Now track!
This year it features director Roland Emmerich, a look back at Softimage, an exploration of stop-motion, and a live VFX Notes podcast
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.
Download the ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ issue of befores & afters for FREE!
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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.
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Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation
Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
From classroom to credits, with Campus VFX