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.
How the main titles of ‘Hawkeye’ helped tell the story of Kate and Clint
The team at Perception crafted different title sequences for each episode of the show.
Here’s what went into the design of the Mnemosyne cockpit graphics in ‘The Matrix Resurrections’
The studio behind the work, Studio C, breaks it down.
When you need to know your V-cam from your simulcam…
...well, now you can, with The Virtual Production Glossary.
You won’t believe the incredible visual effects work that went into the bullet hits on the Aston Martin DB5 in ‘No Time To Die’
Decals, practical glass hits, FX sims, meticulous compositing, and more. A key moment in Cary Fukunaga’s No Time To Die sees Bond
The VES Award noms are out!
Congrats to all the nominees!
How NFTS students helped build an actual miniature featured in TV series ‘Code 404’
It was part of the school’s Model Making course.
Here’s how math art inspired the mirror verse moments in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’
Framestore explains how those stunning kaleidoscope scenes were made.
The making of Exo-Morpheus
What went into the ‘exomorphic-particle codex’ character in ‘The Matrix Resurrections’.
How VFX artists got a chance to revisit the ‘Matrix’ foetus fields with even more detail
Behind DNEG’s visual effects for the return to the real world in 'The Matrix Resurrections'.
The ‘Matrix Resurrections’ dojo was the first time DNEG had used Unreal Engine-rendered scenes for a sequence in a feature film
How the studio crafted the Morpheus and Neo fight scene.
‘Wow, that’s a lot of ownership. That is rare for us in visual effects.’
How Scanline VFX helped shape a number of pivotal scenes in ‘Eternals’.
That dance scene in ‘Red Notice’ featured some incredible invisible visual effects
The main actors, Gal Gadot, Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds, were shot separately from the background party guests, then combined together by
A preview of season 4 of The Performance Capture Podcast
A first-look at the mocap-related guests.
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