…including the Sony Talent League, which just announced Phil Lord and Chris Miller as mentors.
Preserving a Peter Ellenshaw
The Academy Museum showcases Ellenshaw’s ‘Spartacus’ matte painting.
‘Yellowstone’: behind the special effects
A new video featurette for the Paramount show.
VFX past, present and future at VIEW
Old-school practical FX, and virtual production, panels to check out at the conference.
Use your iPad Pro for LIDAR scans
Meet Polycam.
‘Enola Holmes’: behind the scenes of the train sequence
A new VFX featurette.
Twinning: how to decide how to film splitscreens, and how to comp them
A breakdown of the ‘An American Pickle’ Seth-Rogen-as-two-characters shots.
Get your practical FX fix with this enormous collection of interviews
Part of Berton Pierce’s ‘Sense of Scale’ doco.
Here’s how ‘The Drew Barrymore Show’ is operating during COVID-19
CBS VFX is behind the real-time approach.
Watch this previously unseen ‘Mandalorian’ previs reel from The Third Floor
The studio also gives new insights into the virtual art department approach on the show.
The CG side of the animated ‘Mulan’
Looking back on the mix of 2D and CG in the 1998 film.
When wolves attack
Milk VFX breaks down a single scene from ‘Cursed’.
What a delight seeing how ILM created the Razor Crest miniature for ‘The Mandalorian’
Models, miniatures and motion control!
Creating large gatherings in a post-lockdown world
Using an example of a funeral scene from ‘The Crown’, Union VFX outlines how it can be done.
Practical effects: learn to make this ‘The Thing’ title burn
InCamera begins.
‘We got cows’
A look-back at ‘Twister’, with VIEW Conference speaker Stefen Fangmeier.
MARZ demos its work on s2 of ‘Umbrella Academy’
See how the VFX studio handled several different VFX challenges.
What life was like as the VFX producer on ‘Mulan’
Diana Giorgiutti discusses her day-to-day on the film, go-to production tools, and the evolution of the Phoenix.
Step-by-step: how to make your own VFX-heavy music video
Behind the scenes of Ivan Dorn’s ‘Wasted’ promo with director and VFX specialist Denys Shchukin.
The VFX superheroes making super-powers for ‘Project Power’
Different Framestore artists weigh-in on their contributions to the Netflix show.
A new YouTube channel is highlighting in-camera SFX techniques
Learn some DYI practical FX techniques.
An hour+ long behind the scenes on the ‘Dark Knight’ trilogy
Including some nice making of footage.
A brief look at what’s available in mocap glove tech
Finger tracking has never been so doable.
A visual journey into Scanline’s ‘Stranger Things’ machine
Go step-by-step into the VFX of the Russian machine.
Tomm Moore on his distinctive style of animated filmmaking
The ‘Wolfwalkers’ director is one of the speakers at VIEW Conference 2020.