A look behind the scenes at Important Looking Pirates’ VFX for ‘Carnival Row.’
Practical and digital effects combine for ‘Westworld’
Spoilers! A new ‘Westworld’ season 3 behind the scenes video showcases approach to effects.
Back to basics: a CG artist camera guide
A camera basics video tutorial for CG/VFX artists to help you understand parts and terminology.
Matt Workman’s work from home virtual production guide
A take on the future of remote virtual production.
Getting up to speed on the new Silhouette Paint plugin in these video guides
There’s already a whole bunch of videos and tutorials available for Boris FX’s tool.
New Academy Software Foundation project is OSL
Imageworks’ Open Shading Language now a hosted project by ASWF.
Inside Flame’s new machine learning-powered human face segmentation
Under the hood of the semantic keyer in Autodesk’s Flame 2021.
Get into character with Scar
Via MPC’s newly released Scar reel from ‘The Lion King’.
‘Empire Strikes Back’ at 40: How the iconic Slave 1 matte painting was done
Harrison Ellenshaw breaks down the planning, painting and compositing of the classic shot.
Breaking down techvis
Part of The Third Floor’s special video series.
‘Run’ and real-time
How virtual production toolset ThruView was used on the new HBO show.
How DreamWorks solved Troll glitter
They had to solve fur, fabrics and fuzz, as well.
DNEG and the ‘Dark Crystal’
A puppetry, VFX and CG breakdown.
Platige’s ‘The Witcher’ VFX breakdown
Some fun (and sometimes gory) shots here.
We would stop on a single frame and say, ‘Does this look like a painting?’
Behind the scenes of the practical, puppeteering and digital effects in ‘Tales from the Loop’.
Director David F. Sandberg on making a short (including VFX tips)
Watch ‘Shadowed’ and how it was made.
Behind The Scenes Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
This Isotropix video features the work on the film, and a glimpse behind the scenes at ILM.
Body of Work: MPC’s creatures and characters
From monsters to Mufasa.
From greenscreen man to ‘The Invisible Man’
How motion control, practical suits, stunts, CG and SFX combined.
Enjoy these multiple Trixter breakdowns for ‘The Kangaroo Chronicles’
Animating (and even motion capturing the action) for a CG kangaroo.
5 tips that made my 3D animation life easier
Watching your animation upside down might just make you a better animator, plus other pro advice.
Pixar did some greenscreen experiments for ‘Onward’s’ Dad character
A new behind the scenes video.
A ‘War of the Worlds’ car stunt
A brief behind the scenes from the TV series.
VFX studios share shots of their crews working from home
A quick-round up of fun VFX-er WFH pics (and, yes, it includes cats as well).
Twitchy little spiders inspired this horrifying scene from ‘It: Chapter Two’
A look behind the moment with Method Studios.