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Podcasts

ILM’s Ben Morris reflects on ‘The Last Jedi’ and ‘ABBA Voyage’

Behind the key challenges in those very different projects.
VFX Breakdowns

Watch Framestore’s VFX breakdown for ‘Mickey 17’

Check out the breakdown and grab the magazine.
Articles

Go behind the scenes of this fun TMNT / Magic: The Gathering commercial

Including the stand-in performer, and a look at the live-action/2D animation approach.
VFX Breakdowns

A few recent ‘Fire and Ash’ behind the scenes featurettes

These are from the home release of 'Avatar: Fire and Ash'.
VFX Breakdowns

ILM’s ‘The Wall’ breakdown from ‘Stranger Things’ 5

Go behind the scenes.
Articles

The making of ‘Wonder Man’

Behind the invisible visual effects in the Marvel series.
On The Set Pic

On The Set Pic: ‘Apex’

Charlize Theron on the set of Apex.
VFX Breakdowns

Watch Outpost’s VFX breakdown for ‘Bridgerton’ season 4

Go behind the scenes.
Podcasts

ILM’s Rachel Rose on the R&D side of visual effects

How StageCraft came to be, plus a look at BlockParty 2 and Fez.
VFX Breakdowns

All the ‘Witcher’ season 4 VFX breakdowns in one place

Featuring work by Cinesite, EYELINE, Vine FX, Milk VFX, One of Us and Platige Image.
VFX Breakdowns

Watch ILM’s VFX breakdown for ‘Stranger Things’ 5

Go behind the scenes.
VFX Breakdowns

Current obsession: this how to animate water video from LAIKA

It's part of their Craft in Motion series, and includes both practical and digital water.
VFX Breakdowns

Want to learn how ‘The Dinosaurs’ was made? Watch these featurettes

Rare glimpses inside ILM, and a look at the stuffies, practical builds and VFX work.
VFX Breakdowns

Watch El Ranchito’s VFX breakdown for ‘Marty Supreme’

Ping pong, crowds and more.
VFX Breakdowns

Here’s Hybride’s VFX breakdown for season 2 of ‘Andor’

Including significant environment work on Ghorman.
VFX Insight

From classroom to credits

Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
VFX Breakdowns

VIDEO: ‘Project Hail Mary’ creature effects creative supervisor Neal Scanlan on the magic of Rocky

Behind the scenes on the Rocky puppets and animatronics created for the film.
Articles

How that enormous goldfish was made in ‘One Piece’

EYELINE breaks down the giant goldfish, and the dinosaur scenes, from season 2.
Articles

Olivier Gondry on the making of Kylie Minogue’s ‘Come Into My World’

We revisit this making of article in light of the new Margot Robbie CHANEL ad directed by Michel Gondry.
VFX Insight

Powering a VFX Oscar winner

Behind two key Wētā FX tech developments for fire and character deformation on Avatar: Fire and Ash.
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Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.

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