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CineSync
Articles

Demo Cospective’s cineSync for free

Posted onJune 14, 2019May 19, 2020

Cospective is the exclusive supporter of #vfxtoolsweek.

Eddy software
Articles

What is this Eddy software we keep hearing about?

Posted onJune 13, 2019May 19, 2020

All about where that NUKE plugin for simulating gaseous phenomena came from.

Shazam lighting hand
Articles

How to make…lightning with your hands!

Posted onJune 13, 2019May 19, 2020

Digital Domain breaks down ‘Shazam!’s’ Rocky moment.

shooting 'Speed's' miniature L.A. Metro
Articles, Retro

A deep dive into shooting ‘Speed’s’ miniature L.A. Metro scenes

Posted onJune 11, 2019June 12, 2020

Crashing models, crafting sparks old-school, front projection (!), simulating anamorphic lens flares, and the mistake that stayed in the film.

SIGGRAPH 2019's Computer Animation Festival
Articles

Preview SIGGRAPH 2019’s Computer Animation Festival (and find out the winners, too)

Posted onJune 11, 2019May 19, 2020

Catch them at the Electronic Theater one-night-only event at SIGGRAPH in LA.

'Speed': a tale of many buses
Articles, Retro

‘Speed’: a tale of many buses

Posted onJune 10, 2019May 19, 2020

One bus had a section made of rubber, just in case Keanu ‘got into trouble’.

glass office fights in 'John Wick: Chapter 3'
Articles

How VR was used to help design the glass office fights in ‘John Wick: Chapter 3’

Posted onJune 8, 2019May 19, 2020

Keanu Reeves vs. ninjas: the virtual production behind ‘Parabellum’s’ glass house showdown.

'Speed' bus explosion with plane
Articles, Retro

Look closely and you can see the cable pulling the ‘Speed’ bus towards the plane before it explodes

Posted onJune 7, 2019May 19, 2020

But, so what…’splosions!

VFX supervisor
Articles

UPDATED: Every VFX supe needs one of these

Posted onJune 7, 2019May 19, 2020

…and one VFX supervisor is actually 3D printing it.

Speed Title
Articles, Retro

Shooting ‘Speed’s’ opening titles almost destroyed the miniature elevator

Posted onJune 6, 2019May 19, 2020

‘We shoved so much light into the miniature that it was literally melting and coming apart.’

Jumping bus on Speed
Articles, Retro

The bus in ‘Speed’ wasn’t supposed to land like a 747

Posted onJune 5, 2019May 19, 2020

But it did, and it was still spectacular.

Yellow Dog Logo
Articles

Get 25% off Multi-Cloud Rendering at YellowDog

Posted onJune 5, 2019May 19, 2020

YellowDog is the exclusive supporter of #speedvfxweek.

Train in Speed
Articles, Retro

‘He lost his head’

Posted onJune 4, 2019May 19, 2020

How they made Keanu Reeves and Dennis Hopper fight atop that train in ‘Speed’.

explosion vfx in Speed
Articles, Retro

The first big explosion in ‘Speed’ was very nearly a major disaster

Posted onJune 3, 2019May 18, 2020

And it was thanks to someone who thought they had missed their bus.

Grady Cofer
Articles

A new VFX featurette on Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’

Posted onJune 1, 2019May 18, 2020

Grady Cofer briefly breaks down ILM’s doppelgänger work in the film.

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