Retro Retro RenderMan: ILM’s stunning Davy Jones Posted onAugust 19, 2020 The rendering advancements made for the extremely memorable character.
Retro ‘I’m treating my animals like movie stars’ Posted onAugust 13, 2020 Inside the VFX journey to make the animals of ‘Babe’ talk.
Retro Neal Scanlan explains how Babe the pig was puppeteered Posted onAugust 7, 2020August 8, 2020 ‘When you watch a pig, it’s never still for one second.’
Retro Behind the visual effects test that greenlit ‘Hollow Man’ Posted onAugust 6, 2020August 6, 2020 VFX supe Scott E. Anderson looks back at digital humans, greenscreen paint and the genius casting of Kevin Bacon.
Retro The animatronic sheep in ‘Babe’ almost lost their coats before filming even started Posted onAugust 4, 2020August 9, 2020 Plus other fun sheep stories from the movie, currently celebrating its 25th anniversary.
Retro An admission: I totally forgot about the great CG spacesuits in ‘Space Cowboys’ Posted onAugust 3, 2020August 5, 2020 Righting that wrong with the film’s visual effects supervisor.
Retro Retro RenderMan: shading on ‘Finding Nemo’ Posted onJuly 31, 2020August 1, 2020 How RenderMan was used for the film’s coral reef.
Retro Tumultuous titles: the crazy story behind ‘Waterworld’s’ opening moments Posted onJuly 27, 2020January 12, 2021 One of several memorable Universal logo take-overs, and it even involved a giant globe…
Retro Retro RenderMan: shading food for ‘Ratatouille’ Posted onJuly 22, 2020July 23, 2020 How Pixar made cheese and bread and grapes look good enough to eat.
Retro ‘Stealth’ has the most memorable movie missile launch shot. Ever. Posted onJuly 21, 2020August 13, 2020 Here’s how it was made, including the last minute changes.
Retro Miniaturization secrets: Eric Brevig on ‘The Indian in the Cupboard’ Posted onJuly 18, 2020July 20, 2020 Celebrate the VFX of the now 25-year-old movie.
Retro Did you know the finale of Ghost used video effects? Posted onJuly 17, 2020 A look back at Boss Film’s end Heaven sequence.
Retro Remember that pin table map from ‘X-Men’? Posted onJuly 14, 2020July 15, 2020 Here’s how it was simulated, two decades ago.
Retro When motion capture puppets were all the rage Posted onJuly 13, 2020July 15, 2020 A look back at Boss Film’s input device for Species’ Sil.
Retro Retro Renderman: Reflections in ‘Ratatouille’ Posted onJuly 8, 2020July 13, 2020 A look back at brick maps and radiance caches.
Retro ‘Die Hard 2’: the story behind that famous final matte painting pullback Posted onJuly 3, 2020July 6, 2020 An iconic effect by ILM and an iconic effect in VFX history.
Retro Six ‘Perfect Storm’ SFX stories Posted onJuly 1, 2020July 2, 2020 “After the second take, somebody gave me a baton.”
Retro Retro RenderMan: The hair and fur of ‘Ratatouille’ Posted onJuly 1, 2020July 2, 2020 The star of the film had 1,150,070 hairs (and it wasn’t Linguini).
Retro The ‘Apollo 13’ effects you might not know about Posted onJune 30, 2020July 2, 2020 Including the time VFX supe Rob Legato used an Evian spray bottle for outer-space particles.
Retro Here’s what it took back in ’95 to make a digital stunt double of Sylvester Stallone Posted onJune 29, 2020October 21, 2020 How mocap and motion blur were critical for these early digi-doubles.