‘You should put a camera on the robot’
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
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!
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’
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’
What the VFX supe on ‘Quantumania’ liked so much about having StageCraft and a range of other tools on the film. befores
Generating 3D models and meshes from text prompts? We asked Shutterstock about its team-up with NVIDIA
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%’
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
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’
How do you get two characters to ride a giant flying goose, anyway?
DNEG made a procedural tool that let artists create bomb-shaped holes in Boston buildings for ‘The Last of Us’
Behind the scenes of the VFX studio’s environment and character integration work in the series.
Watch Windmall Lane’s VFX breakdown for ‘Wendell & Wild’
The studio showcases their VFX work for the stop-motion film.
From Flat to Fantastic: 3D Texturing in Modern Visual Effects
This guest post from cloud render farm provider GarageFarm.NET explores the latest in 3D texture painting.
Is she real? Is she CG? She’s both
How practical and digital effects combined to make the murderous A.I. toy in ‘M3GAN’.
Rodeo FX’s digi-double breakdown from ‘Stranger Things 4’ is very fun
Watch the new breaking down the breakdown here.
Be inspired by this beautiful practical photographic animation film
Here’s how FX WRX made ‘Voyager’ using optical effects, animation, motion control robotics and projection techniques.
How the hole-ly Veb in ‘Ant-Man: Quantumania’ came to be
From actor David Dastmalchian in fauxcap on set, to final gooey alien.
How Blender Studio’s latest film, with a realistic human character, was made
Exploring the use of Blender's latest features to make 'Charge'.
‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ wins the VFX Oscar!
The James Cameron film, with VFX led by Wētā FX, took the Academy Award.
The making of a shot sculpting toolset
How Animal Logic implemented a new toolset for rig deformation on ‘DC League of Super-Pets’.
Watch ILM’s ‘Wakanda Forever’ VFX breakdown
The studio has released their work showcasing the attack on the city.
Hovering between the real and surreal
MPC breaks down the visual effects for several key scenes in Alejandro Iñárritu’s ‘Bardo.’
How this VFX supe made his own effects-heavy short about a hero robot
Get tips and tricks for crafting your own short film in this visual journey.
Watch MPC’s VFX breakdown for ‘Nope’
The studio showcases the Nope work in this video.
Tom Hanks’ cat in ‘A Man Called Otto’ is a mix of live-action, greenscreen and CG
Behind the invisible effects for the cat, environments, weather and de-ageing in the film.
‘The Cokey stuffy would be resting on a C-stand, and the actors would go up and touch her nose and interact with her’
Wētā FX breaks down their delivery of Cokey the bear for ‘Cocaine Bear’.
Modernizing Your Creative Studio with Projectal: Say Goodbye to In-House Tools and Spreadsheets
Projectal's 6-step plan to help you manage VFX projects.
The making of M.O.D.O.K.
UPDATED: How the ‘Ant-Man: Quantumania’ visual effects team turned Corey Stoll into a cybernetically enhanced creature with an oversized head.
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