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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.

Articles

I’ve started watching the ‘Building the Open Metaverse’ podcast

Posted onMarch 8, 2022

It’s hosted by Patrick Cozzi (Cesium) and Marc Petit (Epic Games).

Articles

I love this poster

Posted onMarch 5, 2022

(It’s like they asked me first before making it…lol).

Articles

Your one-and-a-half-hour deep dive into the VFX of ‘Dune’

Posted onMarch 4, 2022

The DNEG breakdown is now available to watch in full.

Articles, Retro

PDI won the bid to do a CG cape in ‘Batman Forever’ for an amazing reason

Posted onMarch 4, 2022March 4, 2022

The cape heralded a new wave of cloth simulation in movies.

Articles

The DNEG team are breaking down the VFX of ‘Dune’ in a big way

Posted onMarch 1, 2022March 1, 2022

A free event that explores the biggest effects in the film.

Articles

How ILM created ‘Hawkeye’s’ entire Rockefeller environment, including that iconic Christmas tree, in CG

Posted onFebruary 23, 2022February 26, 2022

Behind the scenes of that final episode sequence.

Articles

‘OK, this looks very cool, but can you build it underwater?’

Posted onFebruary 17, 2022

How ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ re-thought bullet time.

Articles

94th Academy Award VFX nominees are announced

Posted onFebruary 9, 2022February 9, 2022

An amazing group of nominees.

Articles

Inside the VFX of the freeway battle in ‘No Way Home’

Posted onFebruary 7, 2022

One shot even saw Digital Domain replace a real car with a CG one going through real water barrels.

Articles

Watch DNEG’s ‘No Time To Die’ VFX breakdown

Posted onFebruary 5, 2022

A new video from the VFX studio.

Articles

‘Candyman’: orchestrating an unexpected CG character

Posted onFebruary 4, 2022

Luma Pictures delivered a digital version of the Candyman figure for the film. During filming of Nia DaCosta’s Candyman, an actor played the titular figure …

Articles

From on-set to final performance: the s2 creatures of ‘The Witcher’

Posted onFebruary 2, 2022

VFX supervisor Daði Einarsson breaks down Basilisks, Eskel Leshy and Nivellen. After watching season 2 of The Witcher and seeing some of the great behind …

Articles

‘It’s a strange world when you’re animating a goat’s tongue for previs’

Posted onFebruary 1, 2022February 2, 2022

The scene of Ralph Fiennes using goats to help climb a mountain in ‘The King’s Man’ was worked out first by stunts and previs.

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