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Articles

Jim Carrey in the middle of mushrooms

Posted onMay 18, 2022

How DNEG crafted the alien environment seen at the start of ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’.

Articles, Magazine

A cape for Christopher Lee

Posted onMay 16, 2022May 19, 2022

Behind ILM’s cloth sims for Count Dooku in ‘Attack of the Clones’.

Articles

The visual effects of Robert Eggers’ ‘The Northman’

Posted onMay 10, 2022May 10, 2022

See the work BlueBolt crafted for the film.

Articles

Look at this. Just look at it.

Posted onMay 10, 2022

Congrats to all at Wētā FX for ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’.

Articles, Retro

Multi pass and motion control: re-visiting the VFX of ‘The Fifth Element’

Posted onMay 8, 2022

‘You know, Mark, I don’t want to do these ‘fancy panning around and seeing the whole world shots’. I’d much rather set a camera looking down a street, having a cab rush towards me, and cut as it passes by, and then cut to a reverse of it passing by, and construct my film that way.’

Articles

At FMX, combining old-school miniatures with new-school LED walls

Posted onApril 28, 2022

It’s just one of the ‘Then & Now’ sessions at the conference, which also feature Chris Corbould, Christian Manz and Nick Dudman.

Articles

Did you know: Eagly has 9,162 feathers (about 2,000 more than normal eagles)

Posted onApril 26, 2022April 27, 2022

The VFX behind Wētā FX’s star creature in ‘Peacemaker’.

Articles

How that massive ocean storm scene was created in the first episode of ‘Vikings: Valhalla’

Posted onApril 13, 2022April 21, 2022

MPC explains the planning, tank shoot and water sims required.

Articles

Go behind the scenes of this Pink Noise music video and its star social media influencer robot

Posted onApril 11, 2022

Everybody meet Crashtag.

Articles

These ‘Matrix Awakens’ behind the scenes videos are fantastic

Posted onApril 6, 2022April 6, 2022

Plus, you can download the sample city for free.

Articles

How they made those directors interact with their favorite film shots

Posted onApril 5, 2022April 7, 2022

Behind the virtual production from CBS VFX for the HBO Max docuseries ‘One Perfect Shot’.

Articles

FMX is back in-person (and online too)!

Posted onApril 5, 2022April 5, 2022

The Stuttgart conference will be showcasing what’s big in VFX and animation, and more.

Articles

Anatomy of a Batmobile chase: a Wētā FX round-table

Posted onApril 1, 2022April 1, 2022

The film’s stunning Batman versus Penguin chase includes some visual effects you might not even realize were there.

Articles

Congratulations to VFX Oscar winner ‘Dune’

Posted onMarch 28, 2022

The winners were Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer.

Articles

Going back to ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ with this insanely detailed miniature replica set build

Posted onMarch 25, 2022March 28, 2022

EXCLUSIVE: How both the model making and visual effects students at National Film and Television School made it possible.

Articles

How ‘Dune’ VFX supervisor Paul Lambert invented Nuke’s IBK keyer

Posted onMarch 25, 2022

“I went off, and six months later I came back with this algorithm.”

Articles

Robot arms, wires and VFX helped Tom Holland’s character leap across those cargo crates in ‘Uncharted’

Posted onMarch 16, 2022April 21, 2022

Behind the scenes of the mid-air C-17 fight scene with visual effects studio DNEG.

Articles

See how filmmakers directly interact with VFX, at SPARK FX 2022

Posted onMarch 15, 2022

befores & afters is presenting the ‘Non-VFX for VFX’ track at SPARK FX.

Articles

Read the ASWF paper on open source tech in filmmaking

Posted onMarch 11, 2022

A look at the state of play of open source projects. The Academy Software Foundation has released a new research paper that looks at the …

Articles

The winners of the 20th VES Awards

Posted onMarch 9, 2022

‘Dune’ was the big winner on the night.

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