The FX magic of ‘Onward’
2D, 3D and confidence arcs.
Imageworks breaks down desert environment VFX for ‘The Next Level’
A huge amount of work went into just the desert for this ostrich sequence.
What actually happens when a director asks you to previs a scene?
Halon breaks down a single previs moment from ‘The Call of the Wild’.
Particles, ILM and ‘The Hunt For Red October’
A deep, er, dive on the early ILM particle system tool, psys.
The making of Seth Worley’s ‘Darker Colors’
Monsters made of crayon and glitter.
Some recent Adam Savage effects videos
Including a visit to Weta Workshop, a chat with ILMxLAB and some old-school ILM model shop props.
‘The Call of the Wild’ needed a river. So they built one. Twice.
A practical effects explainer.
Introducing…weekly gifs that go behind the scenes
A behind the scenes gif. Every week.
‘This is what Sonic fans seem to really want’: a Q&A with ‘Sonic’ director Jeff Fowler
The director talks Sonic's re-design and what it took to plan, shoot and post the film.
You are going to flip when you see this video of how ‘The Mandalorian’ was made
Video breaks down use of LED walls, Unreal Engine, ILM's StageCraft and other tech.
A-ha’s rotoscoped 1985 music video for ‘Take On Me’ has been watched…a lot
Actually, a billion times. Here's some neat behind the scenes.
Get up to speed on Red Giant’s Universe
Universe 3.2 has just been released.
A visual history of Nuke
So, what was the first version you used?
Dog scanning for ‘The Call of the Wild’
The director shares behind the scenes details.
How Scanline used Flowline and thinkingParticles on ‘Midway’
A 50 minute video breaking down the battle scenes.
Have you watched ‘Chernobyl’ yet?
This DNEG VFX reel breaks down key scenes.
Whatever happened to the practical creatures from ‘Pitch Black’?
Well, those animatronic bioraptors lasted almost exactly 20 years.
Get a befores and afters glimpse of ‘Call of the Wild’
This CBS Harrison Ford interview shows some of the on-set performance.
Looking back at ‘Sonic’ director Jeff Fowler’s Oscar-nominated ‘Gopher Broke’
The animated short was made at Blur Studio in 2004 - and it's crazy fun.
How SFX supe Jeremy Hays found himself acting next to Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
‘Rick, it’s a flamethrower.’
A trip (back) to ‘The Beach’
The VFX of that steamy plankton-fuelled love scene, two decades on.
A must-watch: Zero VFX’s ‘Little Women’ before and afters reel
Amazing invisible effects.
The insanely intricate work behind ‘Rise of Skywalker’s’ stereo conversion
Here’s how Stereo D pulled it off.
Preview: NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference
Highlights of some of the major VFX and animation sessions.
Pixomondo breaks down its ‘Carnival Row’ effects
The wings work is so impressive here.
Do you keep hearing about virtual production and want to know more?
Spark FX has a bunch of talks on the subject.
‘1917’ wins Best Visual Effects Oscar
Watch the acceptance speech here.
Get my new book in PRINT or on KINDLE.
Issue #66: The visual effects of Avengers: Endgame.
Latest limited edition t-shirt: Pseudopod.
