Fury — Or Else: Z by HP’s extreme Z8 Fury workstation launches with an extreme stunt
How the promo for Z8 Fury, from Z by HP, was made.
Using iClone 8 with Vicon to recreate the iconic ‘I am your father’ scene from ‘Empire’
Here’s how Quitasueño Studio crafted the scene with motion capture and real-time tools.
Autodesk Releases Open RV on Academy Software Foundation GitHub
Open Sourcing RV will help support industry-wide interoperability, standardize review and approval.
iRender: the powerful render farm for Octane and Cinema 4D
How to take advantage of the GPU-accelerated cloud renderer for your Cinema 4D and Octane projects.
How Hybride turned Ewan McGregor’s camel ride into Eopie scenes
The visual effects studio delivered a range of key shots for Obi-Wan Kenobi.
befores & afters takes a tour of the new features in Projectal 3.0
This video breaks down the newest features in the workflow and project management tool, including Spreadsheet mode.
How Reallusion’s automatic character rigging app AccuRIG came to be
Reallusion’s John Martin joins the befores & afters podcast to explain. Today on a special VFX Insight edition of the befores &
VFX for indie horror: the making of ‘Revealer’
How a combination of invisible effects, digital blood and CG snakes helped expand the story and production value of an indie horror.
Old-school miniature plane explosions + new-school VFX techniques
How Wolf Hound utilized miniature plane models for its dynamic aerial battles.
The art of tracer fire
More behind the scenes of the visual effects of Wolf Hound.
4 VFX-life horror stories to help you through Halloween
We asked artists to share shocking tales of visual effects life from the field: on set and back at the studio.
The Reallusion tools that helped make this mysterious Unreal Fellowship short
Behind the scenes of Dissós, with director Steven Elford.
Making a WWII film with real vintage aircraft
Turncoat Pictures dives into the making of Wolf Hound in the first of this VFX Insight series.
Simulating sand and other FX, with Hybride
Go behind the scenes of the studio's work on 'The Book of Boba Fett.'
Here’s how one director tackled the delicate art of rendering characters made of paper
Behind the scenes of the still work in progress animated short ‘Retour a Hairy Hill’, and the tech and cloud rendering that’s
With 3D scanning, a new kind of fashion shoot emerges
How Avatar Factory collaborated with photographer Justin Ridler for this unique Vogue China shoot.
Using robotic cameras and CG animation to take to the skies (and space)
Behind the scenes of two UTS Animal Logic Academy shorts exploring the intersection between analogue and digital animation.
How you can bring photoreal objects into your projects with 3D scanning app KIRI
How KIRI works, the difference between free and paid versions, and how your 3D scans might soon earn you money.
‘The Book of Boba Fett’: compositing from go to whoa
A look behind the scenes of Hybride’s comp process on the show.
How Character Creator was used to make the teaser for ‘Small Blue Shadow’
A look behind the scenes at Ari Rubenstein’s Small Blue Shadow, including how he’s been using Character Creator and Unreal Engine to
“AWS Innovators” lineup at SIGGRAPH 2022
All the details of the AWS sessions happening in Vancouver.
Technicolor Creative Studios Academy Supplies Production-Ready Training for Next-Generation of Industry Talent
How the Technicolor Creative Studios Academy students have been using tools such as Maya and ShotGrid.
Mexico’s Boxel Studio Scales to Meet Growing Content Demands with ShotGrid-Powered Pipeline
How the VFX and animation studio has been using Autodesk ShotGrid in production.
VIDEO: Character Creator 4 is a universal character system
Under the hood of the new release of Reallusion's Character Creator.
‘Can our department handle this load?’
Watch Projectal's Staff Usage feature in action in this new video.
VIDEO: Dramatically simplify character animation with iClone 8
See the new Reallusion iClone 8 features in action.
All about the ‘Ninety Days’ Unreal Engine 5 and Quixel Megascans project
Over 40 environments were created in just a few days each.
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Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation
How the right school helped this compositor land his latest credit on 'Invasion' season 3.
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