Digital Domain’s next-level of facial capture
The VFX studio announces Masquerade 2.0.
Designs of war: ‘Lovecraft Country’
Rodeo FX's Deak Ferrand details the concepts behind the show’s opening battle.
The special real-time course for VFX artists impacted by the pandemic
All about Escape Studios and Unreal Engine’s Unreal For VFX Bootcamp.
‘It has become feasible to generate useful movies with the computer’
Ed Catmull, soon to speak at VIEW Conference, saw the potential for computer animation early on. Very, early on.
Seeing Jack Black get cyber-scanned for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater is…awesome
Just watch the whole video, really.
Upcoming VFX and animation events – a super-quick guide
There's A LOT to watch from home.
SIGGRAPH’s Real-Time Live! is available to watch right now
The full hour+ video is on YouTube.
Retro RenderMan: King Kong’s giant fur challenges
'wmFur', the Marschner Model and more.
‘Schirkoa’ director Ishan Shukla on moving to a real-time workflow
How the filmmaker has adopted Reallusion’s Character Creator, iClone and Unreal Engine.
A new ‘Umbrella Academy’ VFX breakdown
See how they made season 2's final battle.
How do you make a shape-shifting alien?
Digital Domain on its morphing creature for ‘The Twilight Zone’.
More ‘Doom Patrol’ VFX
An exclusive VFX breakdown from Encore.
The planning process for period VFX
Breaking down how it worked on ‘The Alienist: Angel of Darkness.’
Here’s how the new Xsens MVN Animate can use positioning data from HTC Vive
MVN Animate 2020 launches with in-engine positional and object tracking.
Machine learning, rotoscoping and Laika
How the stop-motion studio is using A.I. to deal with face seams and much more.
People keep asking me: ‘How do I learn Unreal?’
Here's two free courses you can do right now.
‘Perry Mason’: noir VFX
Digital Domain on re-creating a 1930s Los Angeles.
Check out this new VFX breakdown for ‘Project Power’
It shows more of the character powers. Amazing.
Learn how some animation studios have been dealing with COVID-19
This ftrack session will look at remote working pipelines, and the impact on crew.
Go inside the LEDcave with ‘STRANDED’
Just one example of a virtual production short film.
Avatar: Fire and Ash
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Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
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