VFX Notes: Ep 1 – Actor replacement, UE5 and what exactly is gamma?
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There is just something really cool about this on-set image from ‘Sweet Tooth’
The show recently began streaming on Netflix.
Watch Zoic’s VFX breakdowns for ‘Superman & Lois’
The VFX studio's Real Time Group also utilized Unreal Engine to previs scenes.
A breakdown of the fun ways you can already use CopyCat in Nuke
How to use the new machine learning tools to aid in correcting out-of-focus, removing markers, garbage mattes and beauty work.
VFX Firsts: What was the first ocean simulation in a film?
The early days of mastering CG water.
Behind the ‘Swordfish’ frozen moment shoot
Scott Kirvan shares a whole heap of amazing pics at skvfx.tumblr.com on the 20th anniversary of the film.
Watch how MARZ made Vision
MARZ has fun with breakdowns of its work on 'WandaVision'.
The visual effects behind those two amazing opening oners in ‘A Quiet Place Part II’
VFX supe Scott Farrar breaks down ILM’s work for the John Krasinski and Emily Blunt scenes.
How a greenscreen stage was used to shoot that ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’ hilltop battle
Behind the shots with visual effects supervisor Jim Mitchell.
VFX Firsts: The first motion control shot in a film
A filmmaking technique that might just be a lot older than you think.
Riffing on The Rip for ‘The Irregulars’
When you’re presented with a VFX problem to solve, how do you solve it?
How LD+R’s ‘Life Hutch’ was made
Michael B Jordan, Alex Beaty and Tim Miller discuss this Love, Death + Robots film.
Pivoting to Reallusion’s Character Creator iClone and Unreal Engine helped this director finish his CG series
How the tools allowed César Turturro to take a real-time approach to ‘Invasion 2040’.
The mocap and crowd sims behind the hordes of zombies in ‘Army of the Dead’
A quick visual breakdown from Framestore.
The invisible effects of ‘Shameless’
This Ghost VFX breakdown reel showcases the power of on-set scanning, photogrammetry and Lidar.
Here’s how you scan real Las Vegas to make a digital Las Vegas
The process the VFX team followed for ‘Army of the Dead’, including when the Vegas hotels wouldn’t let them capture data.
‘Oh my god, are they going to show this? Oh my god, they showed it.’
How stunts and VFX combined to craft that intense mauling scene in ‘Army of the Dead’.
Tig Notaro’s greenscreen shoot, her digi-double and the VFX required to place her into the already-filmed ‘Army of the Dead’
A deep dive into the meticulous visual effects work behind replacing Chris D’Elia with Notaro on Zack Synder’s film.
Rodeo FX breaks down *the* ‘Lovecraft Country’ creature
Part of their breaking down the breakdown series.
Shotmakers: How Milk VFX orchestrated the devastating space helmet drowning in ‘Intergalactic’
Crew-members describe their roles in making the sequence possible.
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Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
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