Articles

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.

VFX Breakdowns

Rodeo FX breaks down *the* ‘Lovecraft Country’ creature

Part of their breaking down the breakdown series.

Articles

Shotmakers: How Milk VFX orchestrated the devastating space helmet drowning in ‘Intergalactic’

Crew-members describe their roles in making the sequence possible.

VFX Breakdowns

‘Army of the Dead’ and that horse

Here's the practical effects behind it.

Articles

You can get early access to Unreal Engine 5…now

And you can already try out Lumen, Nanite and more in the sample 'Valley of the Ancient' project.

Articles

‘Peter Rabbit 2’—the making of the heist

Key members of the creative team break down the climactic sequence.

VFX Breakdowns

Weta Digital is posting a heap of VFX breakdowns right now

X-Men, Wolverine, Maze Runner, Gemini Man, Apes and more.

Podcasts

VFX Firsts: What was the first digital face replacement in a film?

Just one of the many breakthroughs on this particular movie...

VFX Breakdowns

How they made that tiger in ‘Army of the Dead’

Some fun VFX breakdowns here.

VFX Breakdowns

Behind the VFX on ‘Shadow and Bone’

Befores and afters from Netflix.

Articles

Exclusive: How Zoic re-imagined a battle scene from ‘Stargirl’ with Unreal Engine

Behind the real-time approach.

Articles

The most fun VFX run-down of ‘Flight of the Navigator’ you’ll ever see

Thank you, Captain Disillusion.

VFX Breakdowns

Watch the making of ‘Wasteminster’

Behind the anim and sims for that Greenpeace spot.

Podcasts

VFX Firsts: What was the first digital wire-removal shot in a film?

An unlikely film for a first, but a huge leap forward in invisible VFX.

Articles

How Imageworks gave Falcon new wings

Also, a look at the New York chopper and truck rescue scenes in ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’.

Articles

4 things you should know about the VFX behind Mechagodzilla

How Scanline VFX made the giant robot for ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’.

Articles

How the environment for the ‘Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ Germany truck chase went from array plates to fully 3D

The team from Rodeo FX explain why.

Articles

How Weta Digital delivered that digi-double handover of Anthony Mackie in ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’

Plus, a look at the studio’s canyon creation for that dramatic opening scene of the series.

VFX Insight

You can render in a third of the time with Renderro

A real-world cloud computing case study using a complex Blender scene.

VFX Breakdowns

Breaking down the oner in ‘The Vast of Night’

Watch these videos explaining the oner shot in the film.