Articles Demo Cospective’s cineSync for free Posted onJune 14, 2019May 19, 2020 Cospective is the exclusive supporter of #vfxtoolsweek.
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.
Articles How to make…lightning with your hands! Posted onJune 13, 2019May 19, 2020 Digital Domain breaks down ‘Shazam!’s’ Rocky moment.
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.
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.
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’.
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.
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!
Articles UPDATED: Every VFX supe needs one of these Posted onJune 7, 2019May 19, 2020 …and one VFX supervisor is actually 3D printing it.
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.’
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.
Articles Get 25% off Multi-Cloud Rendering at YellowDog Posted onJune 5, 2019May 19, 2020 YellowDog is the exclusive supporter of #speedvfxweek.
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’.
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.
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.