befores & afters

Giving the chestburster its moment on screen

How Alec Gillis orchestrated the intense effects for the chestburster, and more, on Alien: Romulus. An excerpt from befores & afters magazine in print.

Podcasts

‘Fight Club’ is now 25 years old: we break down its stunning VFX

A new VFX Notes episode is out!

Podcasts

Matt Estela: a life

We chat to Matt Estela about Houdini, CG Wiki and his path from VFX into...a different world.

VFX Breakdowns

ILM’s VFX breakdown for ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ is here

Go behind the scenes.

VFX Breakdowns

Watch Barnstorm’s VFX breakdown for The Sympathizer’

See how the VFX studio made their visual effects for the show.

VFX Breakdowns

Watch Folks’ ‘Harold and The Purple Crayon’ breakdown reel

Including the plane sequence and the bug.

VFX Insight

3D Gaussian Splatting on Blender, In Its Truest Form

KIRI's Blender add-on that allows for 3DGS integration is free and open-sourced.

Magazine

Shooting on an LED volume…on film

Magnopus details its particular virtual production approaches on Fallout, which included capturing the LED wall scenes on 35mm film. An excerpt from the print

VFX Breakdowns

The making of ‘Call of the Kings’

‘Call Of The Kings’ promotes Riyadh Season’s ‘Six Kings Slam’, a one-of-its-kind tennis tournament. Here's how Electric Theatre Collective made it.

VFX Breakdowns

How Cinesite made the three-headed dog Fotis for ‘Kaos’

Watch their breakdown reel here.

Articles

Behind the scenes of Blizzard’s Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred trailer

Including how a photographed chicken carcass gave the team inspiration for the look inside a titan.

VFX Breakdowns

How Wētā FX animated the Bloater in ‘The Last of Us’

A new behind the scenes video is out.

VFX Breakdowns

How that car jump was shot for ‘Wolfs’

That car flip, with Austin Abrams.

VFX Breakdowns

Lux Machina discusses their virtual production work on ‘Megalopolis’

See details of the Lux Stage at Trilith Studios.

Podcasts

The invisible visual effects in the horror flick ‘Longlegs’

Planned and unplanned VFX shots, and some you may not have noticed at all.

VFX Breakdowns

Watch The Yard’s VFX breakdown for Halo Season 2.

Fights, environments, vehicles and more.

Articles

Mike Ehrmantraut from ‘Breaking Bad’ was the inspiration for the Hill-Troll in ‘The Rings of Power’ siege

Behind the visual effects of the battle in episode 207, with VFX supervisor Jason Smith.

VFX Breakdowns

In-depth on Slimer, Melody, car comps and more from ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’

Highly recommend this Imageworks SIGGRAPH 2024 presentation which breaks down--in detail--so many of the studio's visual effects for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.