Groom gains
How ILM overhauled its feather system for ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’.
This stunning shot of the Giganotosaurus in ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ is a practical head and a CG body
There are fully practical effects in the film, fully CG ones, and everything in between (and, yep, there’s even miniatures).
Automatic human matting for VFX and offline virtual production
Watch this demo for Vanishing Point Virtual Production's Antimatter app.
So, how do you *actually* make 100 meter tall creatures fight amongst the pyramids?
Behind the scenes of Moon Knight’s Ammit vs Khonshu battle by Wētā FX, plus the VFX studio’s work on the ‘million night
Did you see ‘Lightyear’? Now read about the tech behind it
A number of technical Pixar papers and videos have already been published covering cloth, hair and environment R&D in computer graphics for
Here’s the full list of 74th Emmy awards nominations in VFX
Congratulations to all the nominees.
The big VFX presentations at SIGGRAPH 2022
A round-up of the upcoming VFX and animation sessions featuring major films, shows and tech at SIGGRAPH this year.
‘Men in Black’ and its crazy collection of real and CG creatures
“I’ve always told people that when you have a movie that's fairly complicated be sure to have a talking pug dog in
The making of the dream-like CG music video to Mac Miller’s ‘Colors and Shapes’
How Hornet crafted the video for the song by Mac Miller, who died in 2018.
How the ‘2D’ Chip in ‘Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers’ was actually 3D
And how MPC had to make Seth Rogen’s Uncanny Valley Bob character look as bad as possible.
A unique approach to face replacements by ILM helped make the ‘Multiverse of Madness’ Illuminati battle possible
The VFX studio also meticulously modeled a CG replica of the British Museum atrium.
From actors jumping on on-set pads to the final magical VFX shots
A breakdown of Rodeo FX’s Berlin dining hall visual effects in ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’.
Behind Vecna’s ‘UV texture crawl’ vines, the fight of a Demogorgon, and the de-ageing of Millie Bobby Brown
Behind the visual effects of volume one of 'Stranger Things 4'.
The invisible VFX prep work done to make that assassin scene in ‘The Book of Boba Fett’ a reality
Image Engine explains the meticulous roto, matchmoving and tracking involved.
The forgotten freeze-frame moments from ‘Batman & Robin’
The infamous 1997 film had its own form of bullet-time, before bullet-time.
The crazy multiverse shot in ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ had its own intense VFX journey
Framestore walks befores & afters through the making of the shot–from previs to final–and even reveals a couple of Easter eggs you
Tech Weeklies is back! Unreal’s Mesh to MetaHuman, DNEG’s review tool, new Blender out
Catching up on a week of tech news in VFX, animation and CG.
‘Those close-ups are where it all lives and breathes’
The directors of Prehistoric Planet–Andrew R. Jones and Adam Valdez–reveal the secrets behind the live-action/CG hybrid nature documentary series.
Eddie Redmayne gave the animation team direct feedback on how to perform limbic mimicry on Manticores
Behind the scenes on Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore with Framestore.
‘Moon Knight’ continues the impressive Marvel tradition of seamlessly incorporating CG costumes
The VFX behind Moon Knight’s impressive armor.
Two vampires fight down a subway escalator: how Digital Domain made this shot happen
Behind this super-crazy moment in Morbius.
The sims that destroyed Gotham
Behind Scanline VFX’s Gotham City flooding scenes in ‘The Batman’.
So, how exactly does someone pitch an episode of ‘Love, Death + Robots’?
With Vol. 3 now out, creator/EP Tim Miller and supervising director Jennifer Yuh Nelson explain how it works.
Getting up to speed (again) on ‘Sonic 2’
Inside MPC’s character animation for ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’.
Check out Pixar’s Profile Mover rigging tech to be presented at SIGGRAPH
Lots of fun details in their Technical Paper.
Jim Carrey in the middle of mushrooms
How DNEG crafted the alien environment seen at the start of ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’.
A cape for Christopher Lee
Behind ILM's cloth sims for Count Dooku in 'Attack of the Clones'.
Avatar: Fire and Ash
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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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