You definitely want to see these old-school ‘Toy Story’ featurettes
A look at Pixar's animation and modeling process from 'back in the day'.
Multi-angle on ‘Jingle Jangle’: Part 2—Making a matador
The Don Juan toy and its journey to the screen.
Multi-angle on ‘Jingle Jangle’: Part 1—the storybook sequences
How Framestore crafted the fully-CG scenes.
This year’s b’Ars VFX event includes a Weta Digital reunion
Plus sessions on Project Power, virtual production and more.
Hello, Douglas
Digital Domain made a real-time autonomous digital human.
A new kind of animation
The making of ‘The Liberator’.
Eagle vs. meerkat: behind Weta Digital’s stunning Unreal Engine short
Fur and feathers!
Here’s how ‘generative scheduling’ is going to work in Shotgun
More about the machine learning addition to the Autodesk tool.
News in real-time and digital humans: Epic Games acquires tech of Hyprsense
Hyprsense is known for real-time facial anim.
Making the virtual production-made ‘Gods of Mars’
Watch the behind the scenes featurette.
Remote mocap, deep fakes and Donald Trump
(And Harry Shearer).
Watch this ‘King Kong’ featurette on the T. Rex fight
Key team members break it down.
How to pitch your project: tips from Jorge R. Gutierrez and Shannon Tindle
A special preview of their on-demand talk from VIEW Conference 2020.
You may have seen the Mocha PowerMesh demo. Well, now it’s here for real
So…you need to track organic and warped surfaces, hey?
Getting photogrammetry assets into Unreal: a guide from Happy Mushroom
The Virtual Art Studio shows you how.
A new augmented reality app from The Mill
Meet Mill Scout.
‘Over The Moon’: Inside the FX department
What Sony Pictures Imageworks’ FX team delivered for the film.
Go behind a virtual production studio setup
MELS built one in Montreal.
EbSynth for VFX? How the tool has gone beyond its original scope
The team behind the tool share more of what they’ve been up to.
The crowd of characters in this music video was performed by one mocap artist
How ’777’ by Joji was made (featuring a ton of behind the scenes imagery).
Watch Chicken Bone FX’s VFX breakdown for ‘The Queen’s Gambit’
You've never seen chess VFX like this before.
Event preview: Future of Film
The online Summit is taking place 18-20 November, 2020.
Explore key frames from key works of Framestore’s art department
The department is celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Dennis Muren on the origins of ‘Stained Glass Man’ in ‘Young Sherlock Holmes’
An exclusive preview from the ILM VFX supe’s VIEW Conference talk.
Director as cheerleader? Budget-minder? Technician? What are the different sides to directing an animated feature?
Director Joel Crawford on making DreamWorks Animation’s ‘The Croods: A New Age’.
Behind the scenes of ‘Lovecraft Country’
Watch the new 30 min featurette.
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.
From classroom to credits, with Campus VFX