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Category: Articles

Javor Kalojanov
Articles

My VFX job: Rendering software engineer

Posted onAugust 16, 2019May 23, 2020

Weta Digital’s Javor Kalojanov on being part of rendering research at the top-tier studio.

Monika Batchelor
Articles

My VFX job: Starting out in the industry

Posted onAugust 15, 2019May 23, 2020

Early-career vfx artist Monika Batchelor on making the move from Australia to Hollywood.

Deke Kincaid
Articles

My VFX job: Senior pipeline supervisor

Posted onAugust 14, 2019May 23, 2020

Digital Domain’s Deke Kincaid on making everything ‘work like butter’.

The Lion King CG
Articles

How ‘The Lion King’ moved away from digital matte paintings to create fully CG vistas

Posted onAugust 13, 2019May 23, 2020

Something was very different about the environments in the photo-real animated film.

befores & afters
Articles

Coming soon to befores & afters

Posted onAugust 12, 2019May 23, 2020

Lion King, The Boys, the history of mocap, and more retro VFX.

The Abyss Waterhead
Articles, Retro

That time James Cameron gave ILM a day to come up with a test for ‘The Abyss’

Posted onAugust 9, 2019May 23, 2020

What should a CG water tentacle should look like, anyway?

Bone Mother behind the scene
Articles

Sometimes you just need to blow-dry your 3D printed hands in order to animate them

Posted onAugust 8, 2019May 23, 2020

Behind the scenes of the stop-motion short, ‘Bone Mother’.

Hellboy VFX
Articles

The evolution of a VFX scene

Posted onAugust 7, 2019May 23, 2020

How Hellboy’s epic fight against 3 giants came to be.

fxphd
Articles

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Posted onAugust 7, 2019May 23, 2020

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Sony Pictures Imageworks
Articles

The large-scale effort to replicate London’s Tower Bridge for ‘Far From Home’s’ finale

Posted onAugust 6, 2019May 23, 2020

Lidar, shooting panos and textures 3 times a day, and closing the Bridge for just 2 minutes at a time.

Captain in Endgame
Articles

It’s a big year for manipulating the ages of your favorite movie stars

Posted onAugust 5, 2019May 23, 2020

And there’s one place you’ll be able to hear a lot about it…

virtual production
Articles

I think I’ve seen a glimpse into the future of filmmaking

Posted onAugust 5, 2019May 31, 2020

And it involves getting a whole lot of VFX shots in-camera.

Reallusion
Articles

The latest in digital character control from Reallusion

Posted onAugust 3, 2019May 23, 2020

HeadShot A.I., iClone Unreal Live Link and a new shader.

Glassbox
Articles

Virtual production out of the box

Posted onAugust 2, 2019May 31, 2020

Here’s what Glassbox was demo’ing at SIGGRAPH.

Chernobyl VFX
Articles

Breaking down that intense handheld rooftop liquidator shot in ‘Chernobyl’

Posted onAugust 1, 2019May 23, 2020

A nail-biting 90 seconds of invisible visual effects.

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