The process of postvis on ‘Cocaine Bear’
How do you add a bear to plates and help create a performance?
Inside ‘John Wick 4’s’ insane Arc de Triomphe scene and the top-down Dragon’s Breath gunfight
How the visual effects teams on the film helped orchestrate the mayhem.
‘We have buckets of entrails’
On the set of Carnival Row with creature and make-up effects supervisor Nick Dudman.
It’s Bamfing time!
Has there ever quite been anything as cool as the original Bamfing effect in ‘X2’? UPDATED!
Bringing ‘Matilda’ to life with more VFX than you might at first realize
How Cinesite and other studios crafted the visual effects of Matilda.
From green guys to smokey simulations
How that stunning nichevo’ya battle in Shadow and Bone was made.
Watch this ‘Fast X’ stunt behind the scenes
This b-roll video is now online.
Here’s how that crazy tsunami scene in Knock at the Cabin was made
FuseFX breaks down the water sims and comp work involved.
Treating ships like characters in the final episode of ‘Star Trek: Picard’
The VFX of the Borg cube and Enterprise-D.
The best of both worlds
Marrying practical miniatures with CG served perfectly on RRR’s dramatic bridge scene.
‘1899’: Framestore’s virtual production take-aways
Key lessons the visual effects studio learnt on the impressive virtual production series.
How the dragonborn in ‘D&D’ came to life with a new facial animatronics motion capture system
The animatronics and make-up effects behind ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.’
How to get amazing fire effects elements for your project
The Light Shop is offering a special deal from their new VFX elements library, read on for the befores & afters discount, too.
Urban Bradeško, aka the Explosions Guy, talks sparse GPU accelerated volumetric fluid solver Axiom
The latest episode of the befores & afters podcast is here!
Yep, pool noodles were part of this ‘Wakanda Forever’ suit from Legacy Effects
An excerpt from the practical effects issue of befores & afters magazine.
Explore the VFX work in s2 of ‘Carnival Row’ with Digital Domain and Goodbye Kansas
Both studios have published some fantastic VFX breakdowns of their work.
Go behind the scenes of the ‘The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special’ VFX with Framestore
The VFX studio has released its breakdown.
Inside the mind of Phil Tippett in the final stages of ‘MAD GOD’
Collaborator Webster Colcord captured MAD GOD documentary images on 16mm film, combined with digital and optical sound.
The challenge of wrinkles for real-time
How Reallusion implemented its Dynamic Wrinkles system into the latest version of Character Creator.
A preview of FMX with Mario Müller
The VFX and animation conference is happening April 25-28.
Avatar: Fire and Ash
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Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation
Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
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