VFX Futures: The making of SideFX’s new renderer, Karma
Go inside the release of the new renderer from SideFX.
VFX Notes: Your first look at Nuke’s Unreal Reader
A sneak peek of Foundry’s new Unreal Reader tool for Nuke with a special guest. On the VFX Notes podcast with Ian
VFX Firsts: NLEs and digital film editing, with Evan Schiff
Do you remember your first non-linear editing experience?
VFX Notes: Celebrating the 10th episode!
We turn 10, and discuss the VFX of Venom 2, Halloween Kills, The French Dispatch, and the state of play of WFH
VFX Futures: Behind the scenes of ‘My Universe’ from Coldplay x BTS
Volumetric capture and VFX.
VFX Notes: Looking back at David Lynch’s ‘Dune’
The practical, miniature, matte painting and optical visual effects behind the 1984 film.
VFX Artifacts: Phil Tippett on ED-209 in ‘RoboCop’
The iconic ED-209 is the latest VFX Artifact we discuss.
VFX Futures: The visualization tools and techniques behind The Third Floor
Breaking down The Third Floor's approach to previs and more.
VFX Notes: Ep 8 – David Fincher and the rise of invisible VFX
A look behind the scenes at films like 'Zodiac' and 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.'
VFX Futures: The FreeMoCap Project
An inexpensive and open source mocap solution might be on the horizon.
VFX Futures: How Halon previs’d ‘Free Guy’
Go behind the scenes of the visualization of the film.
VFX Futures: Christos Obretenov on stylized rendering
Looking at one of the big new trends in animation.
VFX Notes: Ep 7 – Free Guy, Mortal Kombat, Super Mario, Final Fantasy and films based on video games
What works, and doesn't work, with movies that start as games?
VFX Firsts: 25 years of Foundry
The founders of Foundry celebrate their quarter century birthday.
VFX Futures: Kevin Mack’s abstract virtual reality artworks
The art of making VR art.
VFX Firsts: What was the first film to use Houdini?
The surprising VFX breakthroughs of this Arnold Schwarzenegger film.
VFX Futures: How a deep learning renderer was used to re-animate a character’s lines in ‘Free Guy’
Digital Domain used its Charlatan tool to re-animate a line for the game-play version of Channing Tatum in the film.
VFX Futures: How do you edit a live action/CG hybrid film?
'Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway' editor Matt Villa explains.
VFX Notes: Ep 6 – Looking back at ‘2010: The Year We Make Contact’, and, are miniatures dead?
A deep dive with Hugo and Ian on an old-school film and old-school VFX techniques.
VFX Futures: Facial capture, CG and cut scenes on Codemasters’ ‘F1 2021’
How REALTIME and DI4D combined for the new story-mode on this racing game.
VFX Futures: Framestore’s FIRA for portable real-time rig deformation
The VFX studio explains their tech to extend proprietary simulation and rigging tools to real-time workflows.
VFX Artifacts: The alpha channel and Alvy Ray Smith
The computer graphics pioneer goes deep on RGBA.
VFX Notes: Ep 5 – The Suicide Squad, Jungle Cruise, Old, and de-ageing VFX
Notes on the latest films and techniques.
VFX Futures: Where are we at with virtual production?
Boom! Another VFX podcast show from befores & afters!
VFX Firsts: The first film to use an all-CG photoreal character
Could this breakthrough film with VFX from ILM contain yet another first?
VFX Artifacts: Elastic Reality
The VFX software was highly influential in the 90s, particularly in shots requiring morphing.
VFX Notes: Ep 4 – Space Jam 2, Tomorrow War, Loki, and a look at LED volume filmmaking
Hugo and Ian review some films and shows, and discuss LED walls.
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