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Articles

Did you see ‘Lightyear’? Now read about the tech behind it

Posted onJuly 14, 2022

A number of technical Pixar papers and videos have already been published covering cloth, hair and environment R&D in computer graphics for the film.

Articles

Here’s the full list of 74th Emmy awards nominations in VFX

Posted onJuly 13, 2022

Congratulations to all the nominees.

Articles

The big VFX presentations at SIGGRAPH 2022

Posted onJuly 7, 2022

A round-up of the upcoming VFX and animation sessions featuring major films, shows and tech at SIGGRAPH this year.

Articles, Retro

‘Men in Black’ and its crazy collection of real and CG creatures

Posted onJuly 2, 2022

“I’ve always told people that when you have a movie that’s fairly complicated be sure to have a talking pug dog in it, because then you can fix things after with the same pose.” – Eric Brevig, Men In Black visual effects supervisor.

Articles

The making of the dream-like CG music video to Mac Miller’s ‘Colors and Shapes’

Posted onJune 30, 2022

How Hornet crafted the video for the song by Mac Miller, who died in 2018.

Articles

How the ‘2D’ Chip in ‘Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers’ was actually 3D

Posted onJune 29, 2022

And how MPC had to make Seth Rogen’s Uncanny Valley Bob character look as bad as possible.

Articles

A unique approach to face replacements by ILM helped make the ‘Multiverse of Madness’ Illuminati battle possible

Posted onJune 28, 2022September 3, 2022

The VFX studio also meticulously modeled a CG replica of the British Museum atrium.

Articles

From actors jumping on on-set pads to the final magical VFX shots

Posted onJune 23, 2022

A breakdown of Rodeo FX’s Berlin dining hall visual effects in ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’.

Articles

Behind Vecna’s ‘UV texture crawl’ vines, the fight of a Demogorgon, and the de-ageing of Millie Bobby Brown

Posted onJune 22, 2022June 28, 2022

Behind the visual effects of volume one of ‘Stranger Things 4’.

Articles

The invisible VFX prep work done to make that assassin scene in ‘The Book of Boba Fett’ a reality

Posted onJune 21, 2022

Image Engine explains the meticulous roto, matchmoving and tracking involved.

Articles, Retro

The forgotten freeze-frame moments from ‘Batman & Robin’

Posted onJune 20, 2022

The infamous 1997 film had its own form of bullet-time, before bullet-time.

Articles

The crazy multiverse shot in ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ had its own intense VFX journey

Posted onJune 14, 2022October 7, 2022

Framestore walks befores & afters through the making of the shot–from previs to final–and even reveals a couple of Easter eggs you should look out for.

Articles

‘Those close-ups are where it all lives and breathes’

Posted onJune 8, 2022June 23, 2022

The directors of Prehistoric Planet–Andrew R. Jones and Adam Valdez–reveal the secrets behind the live-action/CG hybrid nature documentary series.

Articles

Eddie Redmayne gave the animation team direct feedback on how to perform limbic mimicry on Manticores

Posted onMay 27, 2022July 5, 2022

Behind the scenes on Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore with Framestore.

Articles

‘Moon Knight’ continues the impressive Marvel tradition of seamlessly incorporating CG costumes

Posted onMay 27, 2022

The VFX behind Moon Knight’s impressive armor.

Articles

Two vampires fight down a subway escalator: how Digital Domain made this shot happen

Posted onMay 25, 2022

Behind this super-crazy moment in Morbius.

Articles

The sims that destroyed Gotham

Posted onMay 24, 2022

Behind Scanline VFX’s Gotham City flooding scenes in ‘The Batman’.

Articles

So, how exactly does someone pitch an episode of ‘Love, Death + Robots’?

Posted onMay 23, 2022May 24, 2022

With Vol. 3 now out, creator/EP Tim Miller and supervising director Jennifer Yuh Nelson explain how it works.

Articles

Getting up to speed (again) on ‘Sonic 2’

Posted onMay 19, 2022May 27, 2022

Inside MPC’s character animation for ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’.

Articles

Check out Pixar’s Profile Mover rigging tech to be presented at SIGGRAPH

Posted onMay 18, 2022May 18, 2022

Lots of fun details in their Technical Paper.

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