Previs director Mohammad Khalikh details role of iClone in visualizing Amazon Prime India’s ‘The Forgotten Army.’
Category: VFX Insight
How does USD actually get used at a VFX studio?
Luma Pictures breaks down its Katana and USD implementation.
Using VFX stock footage day-to-day: a studio case study
Video: How Crafty Apes utilized ActionVFX footage in projects like ‘Stranger Things 3’ and ‘The Walking Dead’.
Create, edit and preview your real-time scenes in Unreal Engine’s Sequencer
A video guide to Unreal Engine’s Sequencer.
How one studio animated its CG character – fast – for a coronavirus cause
Behind the scenes with 3rd World Studios and Reallusion’s iClone Unreal Live Link for a COVID-19 PSA.
How to study VFX and animation online
Why CG Spectrum is more than just watching video tutorials.
Back to basics: a CG artist camera guide
A camera basics video tutorial for CG/VFX artists to help you understand parts and terminology.
Inside Flame’s new machine learning-powered human face segmentation
Under the hood of the semantic keyer in Autodesk’s Flame 2021.
5 tips that made my 3D animation life easier
Watching your animation upside down might just make you a better animator, plus other pro advice.
Get to know destruction FX in Unreal Engine
How Chaos and Niagara work hand-in-hand to blow stuff up.
There’s suddenly a whole lot of new motion capture assets to use in Maya
New Motion Library plugin includes 50 free motion assets to access right now.
Don’t settle for just one kind of wall of fire
Stock effects footage stories from ActionVFX.
What it took to visualize this Star Wars fan film
How Reallusion’s iClone Character Creator helped previs ‘Dark Resurrection – Keepers of the Force.’
Virtual production and the future of storytelling
Video: how you can learn more about using Unreal Engine in virtual production.
From set designer to FX lead: forging a new path
Learn how one artist embarked on a major career change after a 4-month course at Escape Studios.
Runs in the family
A real insight into what it’s really like studying VFX at CG Masters, and then getting a job in the industry – from two brothers.
Gifathons, 3D animation and cloud rendering
How Conductor solved animation director James Curran’s need to render out his classic gifs in 3D.
How do I bring content into Unreal Engine?
Datasmith lets you import your designs directly into the game engine.
Here’s how you can learn VFX in a real studio production environment
Vancouver’s CG Masters School of 3D Animation & VFX teaches more than just the tools.
A Bifrost journey
How a call to help deliver the biggest film in the world changed everything for Marcus Nordenstam.
Getting your head around rendering in the cloud
A cloud rendering explainer for people who want to know more.
How to get started with real-time ray tracing
Video: what real-time ray tracing is, and the first steps to trying it out in Unreal Engine.