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Category: VFX Insight

Articles, VFX Insight

From Flat to Fantastic: 3D Texturing in Modern Visual Effects

Posted onMarch 16, 2023

This guest post from cloud render farm provider GarageFarm.NET explores the latest in 3D texture painting.

Articles, VFX Insight

Modernizing Your Creative Studio with Projectal: Say Goodbye to In-House Tools and Spreadsheets

Posted onMarch 7, 2023

Projectal’s 6-step plan to help you manage VFX projects.

Articles, VFX Insight

End-to-End Volumetric Capture With No Coding or System Design Experience

Posted onMarch 3, 2023

Learn all about Emergent Vision Technologies high-speed cameras and turnkey volumetric capture software solutions.

Articles, VFX Insight

Hybride’s asset build for Ferrix in Andor reached more than 30,000 items

Posted onFebruary 28, 2023

How the VFX studio helped bring Ferrix City to life.

Articles, VFX Insight

Autodesk Moxion Rooms Delivers Powerful Cloud-Based Production Review

Posted onFebruary 24, 2023February 24, 2023

Moxion Rooms delivers real-time camera-to-cloud collaboration for creative teams working in film and television.

Articles, VFX Insight

Fury — Or Else: Z by HP’s extreme Z8 Fury workstation launches with an extreme stunt

Posted onFebruary 16, 2023February 15, 2023

How the promo for Z8 Fury, from Z by HP, was made.

VFX Insight

Using iClone 8 with Vicon to recreate the iconic ‘I am your father’ scene from ‘Empire’

Posted onFebruary 3, 2023February 3, 2023

Here’s how Quitasueño Studio crafted the scene with motion capture and real-time tools.

VFX Insight

Autodesk Releases Open RV on Academy Software Foundation GitHub

Posted onJanuary 19, 2023

Open Sourcing RV will help support industry-wide interoperability, standardize review and approval.

VFX Insight

iRender: the powerful render farm for Octane and Cinema 4D

Posted onJanuary 2, 2023

How to take advantage of the GPU-accelerated cloud renderer for your Cinema 4D and Octane projects.

VFX Insight

How Hybride turned Ewan McGregor’s camel ride into Eopie scenes

Posted onDecember 29, 2022

The visual effects studio delivered a range of key shots for Obi-Wan Kenobi.

VFX Insight

befores & afters takes a tour of the new features in Projectal 3.0

Posted onDecember 15, 2022December 19, 2022

This video breaks down the newest features in the workflow and project management tool, including Spreadsheet mode.

Podcasts, VFX Insight

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

Posted onDecember 5, 2022

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 …

VFX Insight

VFX for indie horror: the making of ‘Revealer’

Posted onNovember 15, 2022

How a combination of invisible effects, digital blood and CG snakes helped expand the story and production value of an indie horror.

VFX Insight

Old-school miniature plane explosions + new-school VFX techniques

Posted onNovember 8, 2022

How Wolf Hound utilized miniature plane models for its dynamic aerial battles.

VFX Insight

The art of tracer fire

Posted onNovember 1, 2022

More behind the scenes of the visual effects of Wolf Hound.

VFX Insight

4 VFX-life horror stories to help you through Halloween

Posted onOctober 31, 2022November 1, 2022

We asked artists to share shocking tales of visual effects life from the field: on set and back at the studio.

VFX Insight

The Reallusion tools that helped make this mysterious Unreal Fellowship short

Posted onOctober 27, 2022October 28, 2022

Behind the scenes of Dissós, with director Steven Elford.

VFX Insight

Making a WWII film with real vintage aircraft

Posted onOctober 25, 2022

Turncoat Pictures dives into the making of Wolf Hound in the first of this VFX Insight series.

VFX Insight

Simulating sand and other FX, with Hybride

Posted onOctober 12, 2022

Go behind the scenes of the studio’s work on ‘The Book of Boba Fett.’

VFX Insight

Here’s how one director tackled the delicate art of rendering characters made of paper

Posted onOctober 3, 2022October 31, 2022

Behind the scenes of the still work in progress animated short ‘Retour a Hairy Hill’, and the tech and cloud rendering that’s making it possible.

VFX Insight

With 3D scanning, a new kind of fashion shoot emerges

Posted onSeptember 30, 2022September 30, 2022

How Avatar Factory collaborated with photographer Justin Ridler for this unique Vogue China shoot.

VFX Insight

Using robotic cameras and CG animation to take to the skies (and space)

Posted onSeptember 21, 2022September 23, 2022

Behind the scenes of two UTS Animal Logic Academy shorts exploring the intersection between analogue and digital animation.

VFX Insight

How you can bring photoreal objects into your projects with 3D scanning app KIRI

Posted onSeptember 14, 2022September 21, 2022

How KIRI works, the difference between free and paid versions, and how your 3D scans might soon earn you money.

VFX Insight

‘The Book of Boba Fett’: compositing from go to whoa

Posted onSeptember 1, 2022October 6, 2022

A look behind the scenes of Hybride’s comp process on the show.

VFX Insight

How Character Creator was used to make the teaser for ‘Small Blue Shadow’

Posted onAugust 15, 2022September 8, 2022

A look behind the scenes at Ari Rubenstein’s Small Blue Shadow, including how he’s been using Character Creator and Unreal Engine to make it.

VFX Insight

“AWS Innovators” lineup at SIGGRAPH 2022

Posted onAugust 2, 2022

All the details of the AWS sessions happening in Vancouver.

VFX Insight

Technicolor Creative Studios Academy Supplies Production-Ready Training for Next-Generation of Industry Talent

Posted onJuly 25, 2022

How the Technicolor Creative Studios Academy students have been using tools such as Maya and ShotGrid.

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