Here’s what I learnt at the VFX Bake-Off 2020
A TON of cool things were shown and revealed at the Academy event.
Gifathons, 3D animation and cloud rendering
How Conductor solved animation director James Curran’s need to render out his classic gifs in 3D.
In appreciation of ‘The Lion King’s’ true star: the dung beetle
Plus other scene-stealing background characters from the film.
Spoilers! The wolf scene from ‘Dracula’
A little bit gruesome and a lot of practical FX.
Exclusive: these ‘Irishman’ gifs reveal geometry created via new Flux tech
Plus a look at how ILM dealt with a moving camera, eyes, and body tracking markers.
How good is stunt-vis
Stunt performer Vladimír Furdík gives a fun insight into 'The Witcher'.
Attack of the ostrich
How ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’s’ dune buggy desert chase was made.
Cloudscaping
Framestore's air-side journey for 'The Aeronauts'.
Check out this ‘His Dark Materials’ video with a load of breakdowns
That polar bear fight.
These new ‘Mistress of Evil’ featurettes are heavy on effects
Come fly with me.
Puppeteering re-visited
Everyone wants to try this, surely.
Watch The Mill’s Apex Legends live CG character performance
A digital character on stage, live and ‘in person’ at The Game Awards 2019.
Exclusive: Method’s ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ VFX breakdown
Go behind the scenes on the fiery C-5 and helicopter chase from the film.
How do I bring content into Unreal Engine?
Datasmith lets you import your designs directly into the game engine.
The VFX of ‘Watchmen’
A 3-min VFX breakdown reel for the HBO show.
One scene, many artists
Multiple Framestore artists describe how a single shot from ‘See’ was made.
Go inside Blue Sky Studios
Official 'Spies in Disguise' b-roll from the animation studio.
Breaking down the coolest scene from ‘Ad Astra’
A new featurette has the stunts, shoot and VFX details of the moon rover shots.
This ‘Irishman’ VFX featurette has all-new breakdowns
Details of the new camera system and facial solves by ILM.
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