A deep dive into Cinesite’s visual effects for ‘Wakanda Forever’
The latest b&a podcast is all about the film's Boston bridge chase and surrounding scenes.
Go behind the scenes of the VFX in ‘Bullet Train’
Sony has made this featurette available online, focusing on the virtual production and previs work in the film.
Meet the true unsung hero of visual effects: the tennis ball
Why the humble tennis ball plays an ace role on film sets and beyond.
End-to-End Volumetric Capture With No Coding or System Design Experience
Learn all about Emergent Vision Technologies high-speed cameras and turnkey volumetric capture software solutions.
You might be surprised about what’s real and what’s synthetic in ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’
Behind the scenes with VFX studio DNEG on digital environments and invisible effects.
Issue #9 of the magazine is here!
This latest issue focuses on feature animation.
The amazing engineering behind that eyeline system on ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’
The tech of the Spidercam-like set-up that allowed live-action actors to interact with CG ones.
Hybride’s asset build for Ferrix in Andor reached more than 30,000 items
How the VFX studio helped bring Ferrix City to life.
How they make the fire in ‘Fire Country’
Practical fire, fire elements, fire sims.
Dark City at 25
A conversation with colorist Peter Doyle.
Behind the scenes of ‘Marcel the Shell with Shoes On’
A new Academy featurette video is out.
Oscars MakeUp & Hairstyling nominees in new showcase video
This official video is a highlights reel from the Bake-Off.
Autodesk Moxion Rooms Delivers Powerful Cloud-Based Production Review
Moxion Rooms delivers real-time camera-to-cloud collaboration for creative teams working in film and television.
Academy posts VFX Bake-Off summary video showcasing 5 nominees
A new video includes fun breakdowns.
Watch this ‘L Word’ car crash making-of
The virtual production making of video, from Assimilate, showcases work done by Leandro Marini of Imperial Creative for this crash scene.
See Goodbye Kansas’ VFX breakdown for ‘Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan’, s3
Watch the breakdown reel here.
‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ gets the VFX Notes breakdown
Smoke, tanks, environments...and rats!
Watch Brainstorm Digital’s ‘Hello Tomorrow!’ VFX breakdown
From the new AppleTV+ retro-future world show.
Go in-depth on the visual effects by FuseFX for ‘Wendell & Wild’
Combining stop-motion and digital effects.
Shape language, silhouettes and scanning ‘nurnies’
What it took to design Cinesite’s creatures for s2 of The Witcher. The basilisks and chernobog featured in season 2 of Netflix’s
So, what’s the latest on the Wētā Digital and Unity deal?
befores & afters got an update from Unity itself.
The water droplets on the kids fighting on the beach in ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ took 8 days to simulate
Covering the CG characters with photoreal drips via a thin film solver was just one of the many water simulation challenges on
‘The Way of Water’ wins big at the VES Awards
The full list of winners is here! OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE Avatar: The Way of Water Richard Baneham Walter
Fury — Or Else: Z by HP’s extreme Z8 Fury workstation launches with an extreme stunt
How the promo for Z8 Fury, from Z by HP, was made.
Spoilers! Watch this ‘Alice in Borderland’ s2 making of
It's from the Netflix Türkiye channel, but shows great behind the scenes.
How the VFX for ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ were made
A new podcast with visual effects supervisor Frank Petzold.
See how miniatures, real aircraft and CG were combined for the plane scenes in ‘Wolf Hound’
EXCLUSIVE: Watch this visual effects breakdown for the film.
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Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation
Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
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