The visual effects behind those two amazing opening oners in ‘A Quiet Place Part II’
VFX supe Scott Farrar breaks down ILM’s work for the John Krasinski and Emily Blunt scenes.
How a greenscreen stage was used to shoot that ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’ hilltop battle
Behind the shots with visual effects supervisor Jim Mitchell.
Riffing on The Rip for ‘The Irregulars’
When you’re presented with a VFX problem to solve, how do you solve it?
How LD+R’s ‘Life Hutch’ was made
Michael B Jordan, Alex Beaty and Tim Miller discuss this Love, Death + Robots film.
The mocap and crowd sims behind the hordes of zombies in ‘Army of the Dead’
A quick visual breakdown from Framestore.
The invisible effects of ‘Shameless’
This Ghost VFX breakdown reel showcases the power of on-set scanning, photogrammetry and Lidar.
Here’s how you scan real Las Vegas to make a digital Las Vegas
The process the VFX team followed for ‘Army of the Dead’, including when the Vegas hotels wouldn’t let them capture data.
‘Oh my god, are they going to show this? Oh my god, they showed it.’
How stunts and VFX combined to craft that intense mauling scene in ‘Army of the Dead’.
Tig Notaro’s greenscreen shoot, her digi-double and the VFX required to place her into the already-filmed ‘Army of the Dead’
A deep dive into the meticulous visual effects work behind replacing Chris D’Elia with Notaro on Zack Synder’s film.
Shotmakers: How Milk VFX orchestrated the devastating space helmet drowning in ‘Intergalactic’
Crew-members describe their roles in making the sequence possible.
You can get early access to Unreal Engine 5…now
And you can already try out Lumen, Nanite and more in the sample 'Valley of the Ancient' project.
‘Peter Rabbit 2’—the making of the heist
Key members of the creative team break down the climactic sequence.
Exclusive: How Zoic re-imagined a battle scene from ‘Stargirl’ with Unreal Engine
Behind the real-time approach.
The most fun VFX run-down of ‘Flight of the Navigator’ you’ll ever see
Thank you, Captain Disillusion.
How Imageworks gave Falcon new wings
Also, a look at the New York chopper and truck rescue scenes in ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’.
4 things you should know about the VFX behind Mechagodzilla
How Scanline VFX made the giant robot for ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’.
How the environment for the ‘Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ Germany truck chase went from array plates to fully 3D
The team from Rodeo FX explain why.
How Weta Digital delivered that digi-double handover of Anthony Mackie in ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’
Plus, a look at the studio’s canyon creation for that dramatic opening scene of the series.
The effects you probably didn’t notice in ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’
Costume fixes, and a bloody (and often CG) shield.
One of the toughest effects in ‘Twister’: sunflowers
'I'm in trouble. They're not going to grow.'
Step-by-step: making magic for ‘A Discovery of Witches’
Using Houdini to simulate magic, explained.
‘Turning a painting into moving images reveals a lot of things’
The tools Imageworks developed to help give ‘Mitchells’ its painterly style (and to create giant Furbies).
‘The way we animated those was completely new’
‘Mitchells’ animation supe Alan Hawkins discusses the insane robot rigs on the film.
Behind the early 2D/3D test for ‘The Mitchells vs. the Machines’
‘How can I make something rendered look more like an illustration?’
‘Okay, what if it looked exactly like this?’
'Mitchells vs. the Machines' director Michael Rianda on why the art of the film looks like the final film.
Exclusive: sneek VFX peak from ‘The Boys’ official podcast
So, how does Homelander fly?
Here’s how to hear untold VFX stories from these VFX legends
Tune in for the Then & Now track at FMX 2021.
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