Twitchy little spiders inspired this horrifying scene from ‘It: Chapter Two’
A look behind the moment with Method Studios.
The director of ‘Shazam!’ just revealed a whole bunch of VFX behind the scenes from the film
Some great videos and stills to check out.
MPC goes ‘Underwater’: VFX Breakdown
A new VFX breakdown for the Kristen Stewart film.
A brief history of Digital Domain’s Masquerade
Behind the facial motion capture software that helped make Thanos.
I mean, c’mon, how cool is dog mocap?
See how it was done on 'The Call of the Wild'.
The VFX step that happens before the VFX
Framestore’s CG polar bear postvis for ‘Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made’.
‘RoboCop 2’: The crazy story of how Cain got his CG puppeteered head
When real-time digital puppeteering and stop-motion combined.
This ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ stuntviz reel is intoxicating
Check out both the stunt co-ordination and temp VFX to help map out the scene.
Do not miss Han Yang’s ‘The Pantheon’
A great way to appreciate real-time workflows.
Meet freak, Framestore’s new in-house renderer
How and why the studio built a proprietary ray tracer.
A different kind of look at stunt prep
How that Kikimora battle in 'The Witcher' was staged.
I am obsessed with this love-letter to visual effects
What happens when a special effect goes out-of-date?
Spoilers! Go behind the scenes of the latest effects-filled ‘Westworld’ ep
Lots of surprises in episode 2.
‘Splosions! and ‘The X-Files Movie’
How that miniature Fed building was built...and destroyed.
‘Parasite’ VFX breakdown: you have to watch this
Watch the video and read the RenderMan story.
The oral history of the Dinosaur Input Device
Key contributors to 'Jurassic Park's' Dinosaur Input Device share their memories of working on the landmark film.
The way the opening tauntaun shot was done in ‘Empire Strikes Back’ still makes me flip
Phil Tippett explains how Dennis Muren and ILM made it happen...just.
Behind the VFX of ‘Jojo Rabbit’
Luma Pictures breaks down its invisible effects work.
A new collaboration tool for virtual production
Glassbox Technologies already has DragonFly. Now meet BeeHive.
When you need to comp a CG creature into practical rain plates
How the heck do you do that, anyway?
Morphing through the ages in ‘Mission to Mars’
Looking back at ILM's evolution sequence for the film.
Exclusive: How to make an ostrich
Imageworks' VFX breakdown for that ostrich chase in 'Jumanji: The Next Level'.
Where to read more, elsewhere
A constantly updated round-up of my other VFX coverage.
How to simulate a squid shower
Behind 'Watchmen’s' raining squids sequence.
The FX magic of ‘Onward’
2D, 3D and confidence arcs.
Avatar: Fire and Ash
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