It’s hard to look away from these incredible deep fake impressions

It’s Arnie! It’s Clooney! It’s George W. It’s…all of them.

The big VFX and animation talks at SIGGRAPH Asia Brisbane

ILM, Weta Digital, MPC, Pixar, Animal Logic and Framestore are all going to be there.

One of these things is not like the other.

Weta Digital also had to work with 40 times the usual data on ‘Gemini Man’.

Animated in 2D, ‘Klaus’ has a unique approach to texturing and lighting.

The actor has been ‘fully CG’ and a digi-double in many of his films.

How you can control industrial robots with the open-source Maya plugin Mimic.

‘Casting’ a hand was a tricky job.

‘Joker’ is one of the big films of the year that seems to eschew a lot of CG, but it’s also another major release this year with great invisible VFX.

A new featurette on the virtual production behind ‘The Lion King’.

These brand new reels from Rodeo FX show a lot of the process for their Mind Flayer work (and also exploding rats, of course).

Check out these MPC scenes from the film and commentary on the compositing challenges behind the work.

How that insane carriage rescue in ‘The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance’ was pulled off with VFX by DNEG.

How ‘Ad Astra’s’ space pirates scene used real footage and CG effects for high impact. Plus: the fine art of visor reflections.

…including an exclusive ‘Frozen 2’ preview.