Robot arms, wires and VFX helped Tom Holland’s character leap across those cargo crates in ‘Uncharted’
Behind the scenes of the mid-air C-17 fight scene with visual effects studio DNEG.
See how filmmakers directly interact with VFX, at SPARK FX 2022
befores & afters is presenting the 'Non-VFX for VFX' track at SPARK FX.
Read the ASWF paper on open source tech in filmmaking
A look at the state of play of open source projects. The Academy Software Foundation has released a new research paper that
The winners of the 20th VES Awards
'Dune' was the big winner on the night.
I’ve started watching the ‘Building the Open Metaverse’ podcast
It's hosted by Patrick Cozzi (Cesium) and Marc Petit (Epic Games).
I love this poster
(It's like they asked me first before making it...lol).
Your one-and-a-half-hour deep dive into the VFX of ‘Dune’
The DNEG breakdown is now available to watch in full.
PDI won the bid to do a CG cape in ‘Batman Forever’ for an amazing reason
The cape heralded a new wave of cloth simulation in movies.
The DNEG team are breaking down the VFX of ‘Dune’ in a big way
A free event that explores the biggest effects in the film.
How ILM created ‘Hawkeye’s’ entire Rockefeller environment, including that iconic Christmas tree, in CG
Behind the scenes of that final episode sequence.
‘OK, this looks very cool, but can you build it underwater?’
How ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ re-thought bullet time.
94th Academy Award VFX nominees are announced
An amazing group of nominees.
Inside the VFX of the freeway battle in ‘No Way Home’
One shot even saw Digital Domain replace a real car with a CG one going through real water barrels.
Watch DNEG’s ‘No Time To Die’ VFX breakdown
A new video from the VFX studio.
‘Candyman’: orchestrating an unexpected CG character
Luma Pictures delivered a digital version of the Candyman figure for the film. During filming of Nia DaCosta’s Candyman, an actor played
From on-set to final performance: the s2 creatures of ‘The Witcher’
VFX supervisor Daði Einarsson breaks down Basilisks, Eskel Leshy and Nivellen. After watching season 2 of The Witcher and seeing some of
‘It’s a strange world when you’re animating a goat’s tongue for previs’
The scene of Ralph Fiennes using goats to help climb a mountain in ‘The King’s Man’ was worked out first by stunts
Go inside the bunker of ‘No Time to Die’ with ILM
How the VFX studio helped craft the missile silo interiors for the film–it even included motion capture.
Video: Inside the VFX of ‘Eternals’
Designing and world-building.
Inside Lola VFX’s Ryan Reynolds face replacement for ‘Free Guy’, including how Lola used ‘The Egg’
The VFX studio breaks down their face replacement and meticulous compositing process.
Yes, ‘Dune’ used sandscreens, but it also used grayscreens, and even bluescreens
Visual effects supervisor Paul Lambert discusses more about that side of the filmmaking.
Video: Inside the VFX of ‘Free Guy’
Build a city, destroy a city, and put Ryan Reynold's head on a body builder's shoulders.
Ravens, reflections and ramparts – the VFX of ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’
east side effects breaks down the invisible visual effects in the Joel Coen film.
Video: Inside the VFX of ‘Black Widow’
Destruction, sky diving and Red Room fighting.
How Framestore used machine learning techniques in their comps on ‘The Matrix Resurrections’
A chat with 2D supervisor Patricia Llaguno.
When you have to craft not one Spider-Man, but three!
Sony Pictures Imageworks on the many characters it had to craft, including three Spider-Men–for the final ‘No Way Home’ showdown.
Video: Inside the VFX and SFX of ‘Shang-Chi’
The VFX team behind the film discuss the face replacements, bus shots and dragon and water sims in a new video interview.
Issue #58: The visual effects of Fallout, season 2
Issue #57: The visual effects of IT: Welcome to Derry
