b&a podcast: The creatures of ‘Resident Evil’ ·August 5, 2022 From a giant caterpillar to a giant croc.
VFX Notes: OMG that goop in ‘Stranger Things 3’ ·July 27, 2022 Melting rats, goop, the Tom/Bruce Monster and Starcourt Mall are all covered in VFX Notes.
VFX Futures: How this new RenderMan Walking Teapot short film pays homage to an animated classic ·July 20, 2022 We talk to Pixar's Dylan Sisson about 'Teapot Meets Potzilla', a homage to Marv Newland's 'Bambi Meets Godzilla' made with RenderMan's Stylized Looks.
VFX Notes: Demodogs, Dart, Mind Flayer and the Gate in ‘Stranger Things 2’ ·July 11, 2022 We cover the VFX of 'Stranger Things 2'.
VFX Futures: Making a bird skull god and a hippo god for ‘Moon Knight’ ·July 6, 2022 A look behind the scenes at these Framestore creatures.
VFX Notes: Meet the Demogorgon from ‘Stranger Things 1’ ·July 4, 2022 The first ep in our 'Stranger Things' series.
VFX Notes: The making of *that* batmobile chase ·June 27, 2022 How the Batman/Penguin batmobile chase in 'The Batman' was made. This week on VFX Notes, Hugo Guerra from Hugo's Desk and Ian Failes from befores & afters jump into Wētā…
VFX Futures: How all those sparks in Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’ were created ·June 24, 2022 Pixar effects supervisor Bill Watral discusses sparks, light speed and more.
VFX Notes: Volker Engel on ‘Godzilla’ ·June 17, 2022 The visual effects supervisor re-visits the many practical and digital challenges on the 1998 film.
VFX Futures: The end titles of ‘Moon Knight’ ·June 13, 2022 Behind the work by Perception on the main-on-ends for the Oscar Isaac series.
VFX Notes: ‘Last Night in Soho’ (and the best mirror shots in movies) ·June 10, 2022 We look deep into the VFX of Edgar Wright's film.
VFX Notes: Inside the ‘Doctor Strange’ NYC mirror dimension ·May 27, 2022 Plus a look at those Hong Kong reverse shots.
VFX Futures: NVIZ on the previs of ‘Morbius’ ·May 25, 2022 How NVIZ approached their visualization work on the film.
VFX Notes: ‘Twister’ – a meeting of the minds of practical & digital effects ·May 20, 2022 Part 1 of our deep dive into the Jan de Bont film.
VFX Futures: ftrack’s Fredrik Limsäter on the state of play of production tracking ·May 18, 2022 We also get to the bottom of ftrack's name...
VFX Notes: Doctor Strange — The Magic Mystery Tour ·May 12, 2022 It's part 2 of the podcast on 'Doctor Strange'!
VFX Artifacts: Paul Debevec on Light Stage 3 ·May 2, 2022 We narrow in on this crucial development in the history of Light Stages, including the role of LED lighting.
Moving from VFX to games: meet Blinkmoon ·April 27, 2022 What's different, and what's the same, about gaming and VFX?
VFX Notes: ‘Doctor Strange’, part 1, including that freakin’ cloak ·April 22, 2022 We're gearing up for the release of the new film!
Looking back at the practical and digital effects of ‘Anaconda’ ·April 19, 2022 Happy 25th birthday to the film's animatronic snake.
Concept designer Ben Mauro on building his ‘HUXLEY’ universe ·April 14, 2022 How Mauro dreamt up a graphic novel project and has turned it into so much more.
VFX Futures: The VFX art department–a chat with Cinesite’s Madeleine Scott-Spencer ·April 12, 2022 How Cinesite's art department operates, and how it has adapted to virtual production workflows.
Zendaya and Tom Holland’s wire work, digi-doubles, and the art of comp’ing hair ·April 6, 2022 How Luma Pictures helped craft the VFX of the opening sequences of 'Spider-Man: No Way Home'.
VFX Futures: The evolution of Richard Linklater’s rotoscoped animation films ·April 4, 2022 Behind the scenes of 'Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood'.
De-ageing, destruction and other digital effects in ‘The Adam Project’ ·March 29, 2022 Go behind the scenes of the Ryan Reynolds film with the VFX supervisor.
5 VFX-Oscar nominated films. 5 eps of VFX Notes ·March 28, 2022 Watch all VFX Oscar-related eps right here.