Meet the SIGGRAPH 2021 Featured Speakers: your guide to their sessions
Animation studios, deep fakes, math, interactive gaming, animals and robots!
‘Loki’ visual effects supervisor Dan DeLeeuw on the hardest scene to pull off in the show
He also talks about the retro feel to the VFX, filling bluescreens with final shots, and offers his thoughts on LED volume
Tech Weeklies: HieroPlayer for free, Cascadeur updates, new Blackmagic Studio Camera, das element launches
A week of tech news, right here.
Behind ‘Black Widow’: A helicopter, a prison, an avalanche and a digital pig
"They had four trained pigs on set and they were all very good, fine actors, but..."
Here’s how that crazy motorbike jump onto a C-17 in ‘Infinite’ was done
Plus, a breakdown of some of the film's other intense visual effects.
Behind ‘Black Widow’: Making the Red Room red
How VFX aided in Dreykov’s map projections and more.
Behind ‘Black Widow’: How Belova blew off that BMW back door in Budapest
ILM breaks down their role in the motorcycle and heavy vehicle smash-up.
Behind ‘Black Widow’: Setting the scene with that sudden opening escape
How the plane escape—and de-ageing-VFX—were carried out.
VFX Watch: VFX and Chill
VFX and Chill is a fun Maxon/Red Giant video series with Daniel "Hashi" Hashimoto (Action Movie Kid) and Seth Worley.
Tech Weeklies: Epic buys Sketchfab, Unity buys SpeedTree, FreeMoCap, ASWF Open Source Days
The latest in VFX tech.
Behind ‘Black Widow’: How they destroyed the Red Room (and orchestrated the skydiving that follows)
Spoilers! Digital Domain does a deep, um, dive on their visual effects for this sequence.
Epic made a new in-camera VFX short: go behind the scenes here
Epic Games and Bullitt used the in-camera VFX toolset in upcoming Unreal Engine 4.27.
Tech Weeklies: OptiTrack’s Motive, MaterialX joins ASF, NIM 5.0
Tech news in VFX and animation from the past week.
How the ‘F9’ filmmakers used camera arrays and bluescreen shoots to make fast action
Plus, details of a deleted scene that would have featured VFX-altered plates from the first movie.
Tech Weeklies: Lumberyard to O3DE, Lightworks, Instant Terra
VFX-related releases from the past week.
Some fun TRON animation details
Shared by animation compositor Glenn Campbell on Crew Stories.
You’re going to get a whole lot more out of the featured speakers this year at SIGGRAPH
Usually there's just one featured speaker at SIGGRAPH. This year we have 7!
Chris Pratt pantomimed fighting creature tentacles in ‘The Tomorrow War’ with a stuffie called the football
How the visual effects teams brought the white spikes to life in the film.
Tech Weeklies: RenderMan 24, Penzil, 3D Coat 2021, Dynamixyz acquired
Here's what got released in VFX and animation tools this week.
Proof’s 3,000 previs shots for ‘F9’ were all hand-animated in Maya
Behind the scenes of Proof's previs, techvis and postvis.
RenderMan 24…so, what are Stylized Looks?
Behind this particular framework in the latest release of Pixar's RenderMan.
Tech Weeklies: Substance rebrand, V-Ray 5 for C4D update, Nvidia’s Canvas, Red Giant Universe 4
A round-up of the big VFX and animation tech news from the past week.
‘You’re going to have to remind me, which are the CG dogs?’
A deep dive into the digital dogs MPC Film made for ‘Cruella’.
The virtual production behind ‘Stowaway’s’ space walk scenes
How Unity’s virtual camera offering was used by the filmmakers, with exclusive video.
I kinda love that you can bid on this Phil Tippett video cassette
Tape contains original animatics for the 'Jedi' Rancor sequence.
How motion capture for ‘The Stand’s’ raunchy scenes was all done remotely by a single performer
The pandemic required the show’s VFX team to quickly pivot the approach to these crazy crowd scenes.
befores & afters at befores & afters: The making of ‘Mortal Kombat’
Rising Sun Pictures VFX supe Dennis Jones commentates on befores & afters images from the film.
Issue #58: The visual effects of Fallout, season 2
Issue #57: The visual effects of IT: Welcome to Derry
