One of the befores & afters retro panels happening at VIEW Conference
Category: Retro
The secrets behind the ‘Independence Day’ cloud tank effects
Learn more about the spaceship arrival/cloud tank VFX at this exclusive VIEW Conference panel.
Celebrating ‘Joe’s Apartment’ and those CG cockroaches
The roaches came to life thanks to Blue Sky Studios.
25 years on, ‘The Frighteners’ still thrills as Weta Digital’s first calling card
A look back at the VFX studio’s first major project.
Richard Edlund looks back at the making of ‘Multiplicity’
The invisible effects film is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
The surprising game-changing VFX of ‘Jurassic Park III’
All about ILM’s adoption of several new technologies back on JP3, including ambient occlusion, virtual sets, Maya Paint Effects and dynamic flesh sims.
The miniatures of the original ‘Space Jam’
Go behind the scenes with Vision Crew Unlimited back in 1996.
‘Escape From New York’ at 40: how those ‘CG’ glider graphics were actually achieved with physical models
The model build behind those simulated computer wireframes.
Remember that live-action scene in the making-of for ‘Final Fantasy’? Here’s how it happened
‘Cut! OK, let’s strike the set.’
Looking back at VisionArt’s procedural VFX for ‘Independence Day’
ID4 turns 25.
‘Shrek’ is 20: go back behind the scenes with PDI
Watch this official making-of featurette.
“I gotta go Julia, we got cows”
Twister’s VFX team is back.
The high-flying miniatures of ‘Executive Decision’, and where they are now
One of the models is now hanging in the lobby of an airport hotel.
How the ‘2021’ internet of ‘Johnny Mnemonic’ was imagined in 3D Studio
At the time, PCs were not being used heavily for Hollywood VFX.
“I thought, ‘This is not going to work.’ But nobody has ever questioned it.”
The CG secrets behind General Grievous’ cape.