This ‘Irishman’ VFX featurette has all-new breakdowns
Details of the new camera system and facial solves by ILM.
Come to the dark side, with FXhome
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Imageworks posts its ‘Far From Home’ breakdown
Environments, digital characters and lots of FX.
Oners: a VFX top ten
Seamless transitions, crazy frame counts, and why Hugh Grant is in this featured image.
Preview: a new book about Disney special effects legend Ub Iwerks
The book goes deep on Ub’s animation and photographic effects contributions.
USD: what it is and why it matters
Pixar's Bob Moyer explains what all the fuss is about.
Don’t watch this until you’ve seen ‘1917’
A lengthy making-of for the 'one-shot' 1917.
Maya 2020 is out
Find out more in the video and a detailed Autodesk blog post.
That time a CG elephant crushed a car
...and audiences went wild.
How Animal Logic automates character FX
Inside the studio's character FX cloth and fur toolset.
Animating a stop-motion elephant
There's something very special about Laika making-of videos.
Inside the VFX of ‘War of the Worlds’
Realtime UK's breakdown reel for the TV series.
A nice behind the scenes look at that ‘E.T.’ Xfinity spot
Showing the practical FX, animatronics and digital work.
De-aging De Niro
How ILM approached the youthification effects in ‘The Irishman’, with a brand new technique.
What it took to make ‘Stuart Little’s’ fur, 20 years ago
A short history of mouse fur at Sony Pictures Imageworks.
Making a short is hard, but here’s how one team persevered
Go behind the scenes of the made-with-Blender short, 'Skywatch'.
Pixar has launched RenderMan 23
Duke Caboom shows you what's new.
The project files for Beeple’s latest film are available for you to download for free
'Manifest Daily' is the latest from the graphic designer/filmmaker.
When only the *right* kind of microphone will do
This ‘Mindhunter’ promo needed something very, very specific. Territory Studio delivered.
How the ‘I Lost My Body’ filmmakers used Blender to create their startling animated feature
The film was animated in 3d, then given a 2d look, using the free open-source software.
All the dog mocap and photogrammetry you can handle
It's right here in this DIGIC Pictures services reel.
Puppeteering the dæmons for ‘His Dark Materials’
On the set of the BBC show.
A personal experience with ftrack
How do people actually use ftrack day to day?
Houdini 18 now available
Solaris, Karma, USD.
How this stylized hand-drawn-esque CG animated short was made…in 1992
All about PDI and Eric Darnell’s ‘Gas Planet’.
Stylized animation with real-time tech
Watch this behind the scenes of Blue Zoo's 'Ada' experimental short.
The tech behind all those trees in ‘Frozen 2’
The new tools developed for the film, and a history of vegetation tech at the studio.
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Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
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