My top 5 highlights from SIGGRAPH Asia Sydney: ML and in-depth sessions on VFX
Rising Sun Picture's comprehensive look at their ML REVIZE set of tools was a big highlight of the week, which also included many in-depth
Watch RSP’s VFX breakdown for ‘Dial of Destiny’
The VFX studio showcases its New York parade VFX, which included extensive greenscreen and face replacement work.
Check out RISE’s VFX breakdown for ‘Ghosted’
The out of control spinning restaurant, and some impressive stunt double face replacement work here.
We’ve got more with Habib Zargarpour on the VFX Notes podcast
A look back at his amazing VFX and games career, and venture into virtual production.
Watch ILP’s VFX breakdown for ‘Dial of Destiny’
Including the underwater sequence.
‘The pain comes in just making that early commitment to the creative vision’
'Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget' director Sam Fell on the challenges of making a new–and even more bold–Aardman stop-motion film.
The real-time tech used by Seth MacFarlane to make ‘The Orville: New Horizons’ and the ‘Ted’ TV series
The viz ViewScreen tools are out.
Wētā Workshop’s Richard Taylor on crafting the horrifying creature in ‘The Tank’
3D printing and mold making for the suit, and working on the animatronics and performance for an underwater creature.
Crafting a plane crash, and its aftermath, for ‘Society of the Snow’
Behind the scenes of J.A. Bayona’s tale of the 1972 Uruguayan rugby team air disaster.
Miniatures, LED walls and live-action animals stitched together: the VFX of ‘Poor Things’
How Union VFX helped craft the surreal and hyperreal world of this Emma Stone film.
Watch this collection of Doctor Who 60th anniversary series VFX breakdowns
Find these reels from REALTIME, Untold Studios and Painting Practice, plus an amazing Twitter thread from director Tom Kingsley.
How VFX turned Tom Hiddleston’s dance moves into painful-looking timeslipping scenes
Also, behind the scenes of Framestore’s spaghettification and the Yggdrasil finale in season 2 of ‘Loki’.
The AI/ML tools one VFX artist used for a new short horror film
Go behind the scenes with Freddy Chávez Olmos on 'BYE-BYE' and the actual AI and machine learning tools he used .
Issue #14 of befores & afters mag is out and goes deep into in-house VFX tools
From Spider-Verse to Transformers to the Little Mermaid: how bespoke tools brought these films to life.
Here’s how Beast was made for that end-credits scene in ‘The Marvels’
The character was all CG. Plus, how the VFX team handled teleportations, how they dealt with Brie Larson's hair, filming Goose and Flerken scenes
Watch Bottleship VFX’s breakdown for ‘Comandante’
See how the Italian submarine film's visual effects were made, including the extensive use of camera tracking data from the shoot.
‘A great big show of visual effects where nobody will know that we did anything’
Behind ILM’s 700 invisible visual effects shots for Martin Scorsese’s 'Killers of the Flower Moon'.
DNEG builds a beautiful broken world in HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ with MattePaint
The highly anticipated HBO adaptation of The Last of Us video game transport viewers into a beautiful post-apocalyptic world. DNEG faced the daunting task
Watch TRIXTER’s ‘Loki’ season 2 VFX breakdown
The work includes the Temporal Loom and (human) spaghettification VFX.
This ‘Godzilla Minus One’ behind the scenes footage is a fun watch
Check out greenscreen work, CG animation and even miniatures.
Avatar: Fire and Ash
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Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
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