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VFX Breakdowns

Watch RISE FX’s breakdown reel for ‘Ms. Marvel’

Posted onJuly 28, 2022

The VFX studio showcases how it made super-power effects for the series, including ‘hard’ light.

Articles

How ‘The Boys’ VFX team crafted that heartbreaking octopus moment, and *that* penis scene

Posted onJuly 27, 2022August 14, 2022

Behind the biggest, and craziest, visual effects moments in season 3.

Podcasts

VFX Notes: OMG that goop in ‘Stranger Things 3’

Posted onJuly 27, 2022

Melting rats, goop, the Tom/Bruce Monster and Starcourt Mall are all covered in VFX Notes.

VFX Breakdowns

This ‘Ambulance’ VFX breakdown showcases some fascinating invisible effects work

Posted onJuly 26, 2022July 29, 2022

How ramps became gravel, how wires were removed, and more, in this breakdown from alphaVFX.

Articles

‘I think I found my people’

Posted onJuly 26, 2022July 26, 2022

‘Light & Magic’: a review.

VFX Insight

Technicolor Creative Studios Academy Supplies Production-Ready Training for Next-Generation of Industry Talent

Posted onJuly 25, 2022

How the Technicolor Creative Studios Academy students have been using tools such as Maya and ShotGrid.

Articles, Retro

Why ‘Air Force One’ has some of the most talked about visual effects in history

Posted onJuly 25, 2022

The film has turned 25!

Articles

Groom gains

Posted onJuly 22, 2022

How ILM overhauled its feather system for ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’.

Articles

This stunning shot of the Giganotosaurus in ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ is a practical head and a CG body

Posted onJuly 22, 2022August 17, 2022

There are fully practical effects in the film, fully CG ones, and everything in between (and, yep, there’s even miniatures).

On The Set Pic

On the Set Pic: ‘Elvis’

Posted onJuly 21, 2022

Director/writer/producer Baz Luhrmann and Austin Butler on the set of ‘Elvis’.

Podcasts

VFX Futures: How this new RenderMan Walking Teapot short film pays homage to an animated classic

Posted onJuly 20, 2022July 30, 2022

We talk to Pixar’s Dylan Sisson about ‘Teapot Meets Potzilla’, a homage to Marv Newland’s ‘Bambi Meets Godzilla’ made with RenderMan’s Stylized Looks.

VFX Breakdowns

See how LED walls were used for s2 of ‘Russian Doll’

Posted onJuly 19, 2022

A new video from 4Wall showcases their work for a subway car scene in the series.

VFX Breakdowns

An official ‘Becoming Vecna’ video with Barrie Gower

Posted onJuly 19, 2022July 19, 2022

Netflix has posted this short doco about the make-up effects work for Vecna.

VFX Breakdowns

Watch 2 official featurettes on ‘Jurassic Park III’

Posted onJuly 18, 2022

Universal has released these docos from the film’s DVD release, which include coverage of the VFX work by ILM.

On The Set Pic

On The Set Pic: ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’

Posted onJuly 17, 2022July 17, 2022

Morfydd Clark (Galadriel) and Charlie Vickers (Halbrand) shoot a scene.

Articles

Automatic human matting for VFX and offline virtual production

Posted onJuly 17, 2022

Watch this demo for Vanishing Point Virtual Production’s Antimatter app.

Articles

So, how do you *actually* make 100 meter tall creatures fight amongst the pyramids?

Posted onJuly 15, 2022

Behind the scenes of Moon Knight’s Ammit vs Khonshu battle by Wētā FX, plus the VFX studio’s work on the ‘million night skies’ sequence.

VFX Breakdowns

Watch Digital Domain’s ‘Doctor Strange 2’ VFX breakdown

Posted onJuly 15, 2022

The breakdown deals with new realms, the Sinister Sanctum, Wanda, cloaks and more.

Articles

Did you see ‘Lightyear’? Now read about the tech behind it

Posted onJuly 14, 2022

A number of technical Pixar papers and videos have already been published covering cloth, hair and environment R&D in computer graphics for the film.

VFX Breakdowns

Full official ‘Jurassic Park’ documentary now online

Posted onJuly 14, 2022

This official featurette made a few years ago and now released by Universal showcases many of the practical effects dinos by Stan Winston Studio, the CG efforts by ILM, and the contributions from Phil Tippett.

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