Pixar’s CG dust bunnies in ‘Toy Story 4’ made the filmmakers sick (in a good way)
Dust, rain, cobwebs, and Bo Peep’s porcelain surface are just some of the film’s incredible CG feats.
Here’s how one VFX artist is using Adobe’s /
An 'in the field' shot done with the new After Effects tool.
A new tool to build worlds, and erode them
QuadSpinner’s Gaea is one of the latest terrain tools on the block.
Cine Tracer: the game that’s also a tool for real-time cinematography simulation
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What is this Eddy software we keep hearing about?
All about where that NUKE plugin for simulating gaseous phenomena came from.
How to make…lightning with your hands!
Digital Domain breaks down 'Shazam!’s' Rocky moment.
A deep dive into shooting ‘Speed’s’ miniature L.A. Metro scenes
Crashing models, crafting sparks old-school, front projection (!), simulating anamorphic lens flares, and the mistake that stayed in the film.
Preview SIGGRAPH 2019’s Computer Animation Festival (and find out the winners, too)
Catch them at the Electronic Theater one-night-only event at SIGGRAPH in LA.
‘Speed’: a tale of many buses
One bus had a section made of rubber, just in case Keanu ‘got into trouble’.
How VR was used to help design the glass office fights in ‘John Wick: Chapter 3’
Keanu Reeves vs. ninjas: the virtual production behind ‘Parabellum’s’ glass house showdown.
Look closely and you can see the cable pulling the ‘Speed’ bus towards the plane before it explodes
But, so what...’splosions!
UPDATED: Every VFX supe needs one of these
...and one VFX supervisor is actually 3D printing it.
Shooting ‘Speed’s’ opening titles almost destroyed the miniature elevator
'We shoved so much light into the miniature that it was literally melting and coming apart.'
The bus in ‘Speed’ wasn’t supposed to land like a 747
But it did, and it was still spectacular.
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‘He lost his head’
How they made Keanu Reeves and Dennis Hopper fight atop that train in ‘Speed’.
The first big explosion in ‘Speed’ was very nearly a major disaster
And it was thanks to someone who thought they had missed their bus.
A new VFX featurette on Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’
Grady Cofer briefly breaks down ILM's doppelgänger work in the film.
Mocap, motion graphics and the sails of the Sydney Opera House
A motion captured dancer and Cinema 4D artistry made these projections possible.
Avatar: Fire and Ash
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Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
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