Unreal Engine 4.26 is out
Epic Games updates virtual production toolset, hair and fur, and other features.
In the LoUPE
Inside Tangent Labs’ new cloud-based 3D asset management and production tool.
‘Black Swan’ is almost 10 – re-visit the film’s VFX reel
Such a great mix of invisible FX.
There’s a lot happening at SIGGRAPH Asia 2020
It all starts December 4th.
Multi-angle on ‘Jingle Jangle’: Part 3—Building Buddy
Matching CG robot to on-set prop.
Watch the ViZARTS Summit, including sessions on virtual production
The Mandalorian was part of the discussion.
VFX roundtable: season 4 of ‘The Crown’
Framestore’s team discuss turning Spain into Australia, animating an injured stag and deep fake face replacements.
Exclusive: Framestore’s ‘Lovecraft Country’ Shoggoth breakdown
Watch the befores and afters video.
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.
Get my new book in PRINT or on KINDLE.
Issue #69: The visual effects of The End of Oak Street.
Issue #68: The visual effects of The Mandalorian and Grogu.
Latest limited edition t-shirt: Pseudopod.
