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Category: Podcasts

Articles, Podcasts

‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ gets the VFX Notes breakdown

Smoke, tanks, environments…and rats!

Articles, Podcasts

Go in-depth on the visual effects by FuseFX for ‘Wendell & Wild’

Combining stop-motion and digital effects.

Articles, Podcasts

How the VFX for ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ were made

A new podcast with visual effects supervisor Frank Petzold.

Podcasts

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.

Podcasts

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!

Podcasts

‘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.

Podcasts

Real and synthetic: the VFX of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

One of the most incredible films of 2022.

Podcasts

Framestore on designing an immersive exhibition for the Science Museum in London

What goes into making immersive exhibition experiences.

Podcasts

Scott Eaton on the state of A.I. in art

Generative art, Midjourney, A.I., neural networks, machine learning: what it means for artists.

Podcasts

Ending the world (multiple times) for ‘The End is Nye’

Shooting on greenscreen and destroying the world (and Bill Nye).

Podcasts

Building blood trees, removing noses, catching spears and heading to Valhalla

Behind BlueBolt’s visual effects for ‘The Northman’.

Podcasts

The VFX behind the forging of the Three Rings in ‘The Rings of Power’

What went into making molten metal and more.

Podcasts

Upending the classic VFX approach: ‘Everything Everywhere all at Once’

How only a small number of VFX artists managed a massive effort on the film. And yes we ALSO talk about Raccacoonie.

Podcasts, VFX Insight

How Reallusion’s automatic character rigging app AccuRIG came to be

Reallusion’s John Martin joins the befores & afters podcast to explain. Today on a special VFX Insight edition of the befores & afters podcast, we’re …

Podcasts

From ‘Gravity’ tethers to, literally, Ragdoll Dynamics

A history of how this Maya plugin came to be. 

Podcasts

‘Avatar’ changed performance capture, 3D and virtual production

“You are on Pandora.”

Podcasts

Access:VFX has expanded

A new European chapter has been launched.

Podcasts

Rob Bredow on the state of play of virtual production at ILM

The latest on StageCraft and other tech at ILM.

Podcasts

Alien entities, day for night, and inflatable tube men

VFX Notes is back, and it’s back in a big way, with ‘NOPE’.

Podcasts

Kevin Baillie on the virtual production of ‘Pinocchio’

An array of VP techniques helped make the Robert Zemeckis film possible.

Podcasts

How to make a CG mountain lion (and make it attack Kevin Hart)

Milk VFX breaks down their work for ‘Me Time’.

Podcasts

‘Pinocchio’: going from virtual production to VFX

MPC breaks down its work on the Robert Zemeckis film.

Podcasts

Making a CG zoetrope for this Pharrell music video

Go inside the art and the tech.

Podcasts

Wētā FX on the tricky task of those battling Asgardian kids in ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’

Plus, making shadow creatures!

Podcasts

How DNEG Animation gave ‘Entergalactic’ its stylized look

Go behind the scenes with key members of the team.

Podcasts

Solving a 3D boat scan was a big part of Industrial Pixel’s beginnings

Scanning on a boat on water is harder than you might think.

Podcasts

That time Tom Holland got hit by a bluescreen car

4 hours of stuffies discussion (just kidding).

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