Unreal Engine 4.26 is out
Epic Games updates virtual production toolset, hair and fur, and other features.
Here’s how you can learn Python, online, right now
This course, for CG and VFX artists and TDs, eases you into coding in Python.
Get to know your volumetric video camera
A deep dive into Volucam from IO Industries.
In the LoUPE
Inside Tangent Labs’ new cloud-based 3D asset management and production tool.
Where USD is up to right now at Foundry
How Nuke, Mari, Katana and Modo are adopting USD.
‘Black Swan’ is almost 10 – re-visit the film’s VFX reel
Such a great mix of invisible FX.
There’s a lot happening at SIGGRAPH Asia 2020
It all starts December 4th.
Multi-angle on ‘Jingle Jangle’: Part 3—Building Buddy
Matching CG robot to on-set prop.
Watch the ViZARTS Summit, including sessions on virtual production
The Mandalorian was part of the discussion.
VFX roundtable: season 4 of ‘The Crown’
Framestore’s team discuss turning Spain into Australia, animating an injured stag and deep fake face replacements.
A live mocap’d animated character could be what you need to ramp up your online sessions
See how ASIFA-SOUTH is using Reallusion’s Cartoon Animator 4 to do just that.
Exclusive: Framestore’s ‘Lovecraft Country’ Shoggoth breakdown
Watch the befores and afters video.
You definitely want to see these old-school ‘Toy Story’ featurettes
A look at Pixar's animation and modeling process from 'back in the day'.
Multi-angle on ‘Jingle Jangle’: Part 2—Making a matador
The Don Juan toy and its journey to the screen.
Multi-angle on ‘Jingle Jangle’: Part 1—the storybook sequences
How Framestore crafted the fully-CG scenes.
This year’s b’Ars VFX event includes a Weta Digital reunion
Plus sessions on Project Power, virtual production and more.
Hello, Douglas
Digital Domain made a real-time autonomous digital human.
A new kind of animation
The making of ‘The Liberator’.
Eagle vs. meerkat: behind Weta Digital’s stunning Unreal Engine short
Fur and feathers!
It’s 25 years since ‘Goldeneye’ – a huge miniatures film
Revisit some of the film's models with Nigel Blake.
Avatar: Fire and Ash
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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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