How ‘Andor’s’ real London locations were the basis of Coruscant finals
Turning the Barbican into a Star Wars building.
Podcasts
How ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ used virtual production to plan a train station scene
...and how it also used a truck stuffie to run over Elizabeth Moss!
We talk a lot about stop-motion time-lapses in our VFX Notes ep on Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’
(And we make the push for CG time-lapses, too!)
How this short film was a test bed for rigging and stylization tools, and new real-time compositing in Unreal Engine
Watch and learn from 'Little Bird'.
The process of postvis on ‘Cocaine Bear’
How do you add a bear to plates and help create a performance?
Bringing ‘Matilda’ to life with more VFX than you might at first realize
How Cinesite and other studios crafted the visual effects of Matilda.
Treating ships like characters in the final episode of ‘Star Trek: Picard’
The VFX of the Borg cube and Enterprise-D.
Urban Bradeško, aka the Explosions Guy, talks sparse GPU accelerated volumetric fluid solver Axiom
The latest episode of the befores & afters podcast is here!
A preview of FMX with Mario Müller
The VFX and animation conference is happening April 25-28.
Making vampire chimps for ‘Let the Right One In’
Behind the scenes with Ingenuity Studios.
The history of markerless motion capture company Move.ai
How Move.ai started, and what its latest mobile app lets you do with markerless mocap.
Here’s why the fluid sims on ‘The Perfect Storm’ were so hard to do
VFX Notes has a special guest -- Habib Zargarpour - who discusses his role at ILM on the oceans for 'The Perfect Storm'.
VFX supe and director Adam Valdez on the new tech in his UE5 short ‘Brave Creatures’
The short utilized the new Path Tracer feature in Unreal Engine.
VFX supe Russell Dodgson explores three seasons of ‘His Dark Materials’ magic
From on-set puppetry, to CG work, to second unit directing.
How to plan for huge VFX sequences: the VFX supe and VFX producer on ‘Slumberland’
How do you get two characters to ride a giant flying goose, anyway?
How Blender Studio’s latest film, with a realistic human character, was made
Exploring the use of Blender's latest features to make 'Charge'.
A deep dive into Cinesite’s visual effects for ‘Wakanda Forever’
The latest b&a podcast is all about the film's Boston bridge chase and surrounding scenes.
Behind the VFX of ‘Wakanda Forever’
Hugo and Ian tackle the VFX of this Black Panther sequel.
How they make the fire in ‘Fire Country’
Practical fire, fire elements, fire sims.
‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ gets the VFX Notes breakdown
Smoke, tanks, environments...and rats!
Go in-depth on the visual effects by FuseFX for ‘Wendell & Wild’
Combining stop-motion and digital effects.
How the VFX for ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ were made
A new podcast with visual effects supervisor Frank Petzold.
The insider guide to the art and tech of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’
A new VFX Notes breaks down the big ticket VFX items in the film.
Digital people, CG water, miniatures, morphing: ‘Titanic’ had it all
VFX supervisor Rob Legato looks back on 25 years since the film was released. And yes we talk about Propeller Guy!
‘The Voice in the Hollow’ is an Unreal Engine short with a difference
Made in UE5 with the support of Gnomon and Epic Games. Plus, there's some really interesting mocap and other techniques used by the filmmakers.
Real and synthetic: the VFX of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
One of the most incredible films of 2022.
Framestore on designing an immersive exhibition for the Science Museum in London
What goes into making immersive exhibition experiences.