All grown up: Hybride celebrates 20 years of ‘Spy Kids’
An oral history of the VFX studio's work on the 2001 Robert Rodriguez film.
VFX Futures: Framestore’s FIRA for portable real-time rig deformation
The VFX studio explains their tech to extend proprietary simulation and rigging tools to real-time workflows.
On the set of ‘Reminiscence’
Rebecca Ferguson and DOP Paul Cameron.
Tech Weeklies: Adobe acquires Frame.io, new Silhouette, disguise and UE 4.27, new Resolve
The latest in VFX, anim, editing and virtual production tech.
Breaking down the face replacement for this ‘Love, Death + Robots’ stop-mo short
Go behind the scenes of the 'All Through the House' ep with Storyline.
You can already download the in-camera VFX sample for the now-out Unreal Engine 4.27
4.27 has just been released, and a big part of its offerings relate to in-camera VFX workflows.
‘Loki’: Time doors, time turning and pruning
FuseFX reveals the secrets of these visual effects for the show.
That time Emily Blunt met pink dolphins
The visual effects behind those scenes in 'Jungle Cruise'.
Phil Tippett goes behind the scenes of ‘MAD GOD’
A video excerpt from a VIEW Conference chat with the stop-motion/VFX legend.
Stuffie to stuntie to CGI
How ‘Jungle Cruise’ jaguar Proxima was brought to life, including with an on-set stunt performer in a jaguar-print suit.
Neill Blomkamp on what volumetric capture brought to his new horror film, ‘Demonic’
The filmmaker talks to befores & afters about venturing into vol-cap and real-time.
das element: new asset library software for visual effects
Here's how the new tool can manage and organize your VFX element library, including with machine learning.
VFX Artifacts: The alpha channel and Alvy Ray Smith
The computer graphics pioneer goes deep on RGBA.
Weta Digital on how they made those raging rapids in ‘Jungle Cruise’
Water sims, CG environments…and lots of bubbles.
Tech Weeklies: New news from Nvidia, Autodesk, Epic, Chaos and Adobe
The latest in VFX and animation tech.
The VFX behind that ‘Dad jokes’ scene in ‘Jungle Cruise’
How they filmed The Rock and his passengers as they go for a boat ride.
The secrets behind specialist jobs in animation and VFX
A breakdown of some of the key specific industry roles, from industry pros.
VFX Notes: Ep 5 – The Suicide Squad, Jungle Cruise, Old, and de-ageing VFX
Notes on the latest films and techniques.
Telling an all-CG animated Japanese samurai story, when live-action wasn’t possible
How Neil Biondich used Reallusion’s Character Creator and iClone for ‘Chiburi’.
Designing the sacred timeline in ‘Loki’
How Cantina Creative made the timeline, as well as those morphing He Who Remains figures.
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Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation
Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
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