A run-down of Unreal Engine’s The Pulse.
Category: VFX Insight
Hybride: adventures in crowds
The art and tech behind how the visual effects studio fills out stadiums and battle scenes.
‘Schirkoa’ director Ishan Shukla on moving to a real-time workflow
How the filmmaker has adopted Reallusion’s Character Creator, iClone and Unreal Engine.
Hear direct from studios that have made cloud production work
The AWS virtual event, on during SIGGRAPH, is for creative studios, teams and freelancers.
KitBash3D is making world-building, bigger
KitBash3D 4.0 goes big on Unreal Engine and Unity; here’s what else is new, and how you can try out a new kit for free.
Before and after Covid-19, at Escape Studios
Escape Studios VFX compositing lecturer Klaudija Cermak’s tips for jumping into the industry right now.
Everything you wanted to know about the history of Nuke’s Smart Vectors
Where it came from, how it was built, and why it was originally called ‘Smart Paint’.
How you can implement a VFX workflow completely in the cloud
A how-to video for integrating cloud renderer Conductor into Shotgun.
How VFX and animation studios are using virtual workstations today
Untold Studios, Tangent Animation, and Hive VFX among those embracing new ways to produce content.
What you can do in Bifrost 2.1
Behind the latest release and the latest features.
How to crash a meteor
Creating a real impact with ActionVFX stock elements.
The art of crafting war scenes for previs
Previs director Mohammad Khalikh details role of iClone in visualizing Amazon Prime India’s ‘The Forgotten Army.’
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.