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Category: Articles

Dragon VFX
Articles

How to ride your dragon

Inside the first ‘Game of Thrones’ ep from the final series.

Total Chaos
Articles

5 Presentations Not To Miss at Total Chaos

The Total Chaos conference hits Bulgaria mid-May.

VFX for a history
Articles

How do you make VFX for a history that didn’t exist?

The art of (fake) historically accurate battleships.

Articles

Star Wars model and miniatures aficionados: prepare to lose your minds

Something very cool was shown at a panel for ‘The Mandalorian’.

Game of Thrones VFX
Articles

The small VFX detail in ‘Game of Thrones’ that says so much about the show

That wing clip is the coolest thing EVER.

Solo: A Star Wars Story
Articles

ILM’s Rob Bredow on making the ‘Solo’ making-of book

“I’m the only one here with a camera, and I’m seeing the first styrofoam mock-up of this creature, and it will never exist again.”

Articles

How stop-motion and VFX meet in Laika’s ‘Missing Link’

Featuring several of those classic Laika breakdowns.

Unity Real time Tracing
Articles

Unity and real-time ray tracing: a Q&A

The details on Unity’s journey into real-time ray tracing.

Articles

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Elephant VFX
Articles

Why stop at an elephant?

A primer on Ziva and its latest tech – automated anatomy transfers.

American Gods Breakdown
Articles

Breaking Down Four Big Scenes from ‘American Gods’

Season 2 is even crazier than Season 1.

Captain Marvel
Articles

Things VFX supes have to think about (that are more than just about VFX)

What Luma Pictures had to solve – not just on the technical side – when crafting their ‘Captain Marvel’ train chase.

retro VFX sessions
Articles

The ultimate retro VFX sessions

A preview of the ‘Then & Now’ talks at FMX 2019.

The FuseFX Driving Rig
Articles

Here’s how driving comps were done for ‘True Detective’

They are in the car A LOT.

Source: Behance page of Trevor Tuttle, a model maker at ILM on Snake Eyes.
Articles, Retro

The CGI tidal wave in ‘Snake Eyes’ that no one got to…sea (sorry)

The true story of the original ending of ‘Snake Eyes’, and its ground-breaking water sims by ILM.

Cat VFX scene
Articles

What goes on behind the scenes when a VFX studio does one of those ‘real vs. CG’ test shots?

The art of the side-by-side.

John Gaeta
Articles

John Gaeta on dynamic adaptive geospatially aligned applications, and other things from the future

The Magicverse has you.

Vincent Frei
Articles

A new way to search and keep track of VFX studios

VFX studio directory site ‘We Are The Makers’ launches

Rocket Migration_workstation
Articles

We’re following along with this Kickstarter animated short film project

Will it meet its goal?

Game of Thrones
Articles

There’s so much cool ‘Game of Thrones’ stuff here that I had to embed this video

Holy crap ‘Game of Thrones’ is almost here.

Articles

The Solid Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride

A sticky post with a regular landscape featured image on the corner of a nondescript block in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a bank, or what used to be.

Skrull transformations
Articles

Skrull transformations: inventing a new type of morph

All about ‘Captain Marvel’s’ shape-shifting Skrulls, and ponytails.

Shark VS Grodd: Encore VFX
Articles

OK, so a shark man needs to fight a gorilla – what do you do?

“I was surprised no one scratched my car after that conversation.”

Alita: Battle Angel VFX
Articles

‘She eats a lot during this film, you know’ – giving CG characters some bite

How do you make a CG character eat, anyway? Weta Digital reveals all.

Dennis Muren on the art of crafting VFX shots
Articles

Dennis Muren on the art of crafting VFX shots that don’t reveal how they’re done

The ILM veteran breaks down 3 of his classic ‘how did they do that?’ film effects.

exploring more diversity in VFX
Articles

‘No more talk, we need positive action’: exploring more diversity in VFX

A report from the joint VES and SPARK CG Society Diversity & Inclusion Summit.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Articles

That Moment When You Have to Reveal Your Work to the World

What it was like for Sony’s ‘Spider-Verse’ artists after the film’s first teaser trailer was released in 2017.

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