Watch DNEG’s ‘The Rings of Power’ VFX breakdown
Incredible invisible digital double work.
The CAFÉ conference will feature a preview ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ two weeks before the film opens
It's just one of the sessions at the Montreal VFX and animation event in May.
Making vampire chimps for ‘Let the Right One In’
Behind the scenes with Ingenuity Studios.
The history of markerless motion capture company Move.ai
How Move.ai started, and what its latest mobile app lets you do with markerless mocap.
Watch ReDefine’s ‘We Have a Ghost’ VFX breakdown
Bringing Ernest the ghost to, um, life.
Here’s why the fluid sims on ‘The Perfect Storm’ were so hard to do
VFX Notes has a special guest -- Habib Zargarpour - who discusses his role at ILM on the oceans for 'The Perfect Storm'.
‘They talked to the puppet like an actor’
Spectral Motion breaks down their practical characters for ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities’. An excerpt from befores & afters magazine.
The befores & afters Patreon has evolved: get involved
See what the latest tiers are, including the new RETRO tier, to help support befores & afters.
See Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler (and their stunties) take on bluescreen filming for ‘Murder Mystery 2’
This behind the scenes featurette showcases the Eiffel Tower stunt work on the film (plus, bonus slide show of on-set imagery!)
‘You should put a camera on the robot’
Go behind the scenes with SISU Cinema Robotics and the precision imagery their ‘cinebots’ can pull off.
VFX supe and director Adam Valdez on the new tech in his UE5 short ‘Brave Creatures’
The short utilized the new Path Tracer feature in Unreal Engine.
Behind the insane engineering for the wave tank in ‘The Way of Water’
Here's how the performance capture tank was built.
How Industrial Light & Magic managed to deliver 48 one-off VFX shots for ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ in the last few months of production
A number of the opening space scenes, arrival on Pandora sequences, and views of Bridgehead were ILM visual effects shots.
Issue #10 of befores & afters magazine goes deep on practical effects
Coverage of the latest in creature and make-up effects, miniatures and in-camera effects.
The THEN & NOW sessions are on again at FMX 2023!
Stop-motion puppet fabrication, Dragonheart's animation and a look back at Gravity.
Creating Hollywood-inspired Action Sequences for ActorCore
Industry Veteran’s Professional 3D Motion Content for Action Films and Games.
New ‘acting underwater’ featurette is out for ‘Way of Water’
With not-seen-before footage from the tank performance capture shoot.
Gimbal shooting for ‘Plane’
I love gimbals.
VFX supe Russell Dodgson explores three seasons of ‘His Dark Materials’ magic
From on-set puppetry, to CG work, to second unit directing.
See how this WW2 Lancaster action scene was made with models, mo-co and digital VFX
It's the latest video from InCamera!
Avatar: Fire and Ash
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Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
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