‘Sky Captain’ turns 20: looking back at filmmaking on the digital backlot
DOP Eric Adkins re-visits the groundbreaking film with befores & afters.
Some fun behind the scenes from DreamWorks Animation’s ‘The Wild Robot’
Two featurettes from the studio include making of footage and breakdowns.
Flawless has released its DeepEditor Beta
The AI filmmaking studio Flawless has released a beta of its AI-driven editing tool.
Boris FX releases Silhouette 2024.5
It includes the new Mask ML Node.
Texturing the Choctaw creation story for Marvel TV’s ‘Echo’
How Digital Domain used Foundry’s Mari on realistic digital doubles and a complex transformation sequence for Marvel Television's live-action show.
See how Wētā FX built the Salt Lake City baseball park environment from ‘The Last of Us’
The VFX studio has posted a short making of for the scene.
Go behind the scenes of ‘The Emptiness Machine’ from Linkin Park
Final video and making of now released show process to create the promo.
Chaos makes short film about their virtual production tool, ProjectArena
'Ray Tracing FTW' has A LOT of fun VFX in-jokes, too.
Maxon has released ZBrush for iPad
The 3D sculpting tool, on the tablet.
AI powered animation software Cascadeur 2024.2 now out
News from Cascadeur maker Nekki.
Behind the invisible effects of ‘The Instigators’
Car chases, explosions and even adding water onto actors.
‘House of the Dragon’ s2: befores and afters with Rodeo FX
Go behind the scenes with Rodeo FX visual effects supervisor Martin Pelletier on some of his studio's work for season 2 of House of
There’s some very fun practical effects gags and VFX in the A$AP Rocky ‘Tailor Swif’ music video
Director Vania Heymann has shared some fun behind the scenes clips and pics.
A rare look behind the scenes of how a Marvel VFX shot goes through comp to final
Alexey Kuchinski, head of compositing from Trixter, breaks down the compositing process at the studio for a shot from s1 of Loki.
Motion bases, mo-co cameras and monofilament wires
Behind the techniques used to craft the dragon riding scenes in season two of House of the Dragon. An excerpt from befores & afters
Watch Cinesite’s VFX breakdown for ‘The Union’
Roof-top chases, spectacular car stunts, explosions and fights.
Congratulations to the VFX Emmy award winners
Shogun and Ripley took out the awards.
A whole bunch of professional photogrammetry equipment is up for sale
Mark Ruff's Avatar Factory is offering industry-proven 3D scanning assets to a keen buyer.
How Wētā FX made that 5400 frame Vermithor dragon oner in ‘House of the Dragon’
Plus, behind the scenes of their dragon riding VFX.
Watch this FX sims breakdown from ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’
See the reel from Wētā FX.
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Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
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