Watch Image Engine’s ‘Willow’ breakdown reel
Showcasing their work for the series.
The water droplets on the kids fighting on the beach in ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ took 8 days to simulate
Covering the CG characters with photoreal drips via a thin film solver was just one of the many water simulation challenges on the film.
‘The Way of Water’ wins big at the VES Awards
The full list of winners is here! OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE Avatar: The Way of Water Richard Baneham Walter Garcia Joe
RSVFX’s breakdown reel for ‘Wednesday’ is lots of fun (and it includes Thing!)
Rocket Science (RSVFX) has posted a behind the scenes breakdown reel showcasing its work for Wednesday, including for Thing.
Fury — Or Else: Z by HP’s extreme Z8 Fury workstation launches with an extreme stunt
How the promo for Z8 Fury, from Z by HP, was made.
Spoilers! Watch this ‘Alice in Borderland’ s2 making of
It's from the Netflix Türkiye channel, but shows great behind the scenes.
How the VFX for ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ were made
A new podcast with visual effects supervisor Frank Petzold.
See how miniatures, real aircraft and CG were combined for the plane scenes in ‘Wolf Hound’
EXCLUSIVE: Watch this visual effects breakdown for the film.
Have you checked out the VFX Notes Shorts?
The latest Shorts features Avatar: The Way of Water.
The production design of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’
Now in featurette version.
‘We literally turn-tabled real jets on the tarmac’
The VFX supervisor for ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ breaks down the biggest visual effects challenges in the film, and some of the invisible effects surprises
An old Amiga with ‘Titanic’ miniature shoot ‘video taps’ on it is a treasure-trove of VFX history
The Commodore Amiga 4000/040 was used by Digital Domain to help craft effects shots and review miniature shoots for Titanic, Apollo 13 and True
The insider guide to the art and tech of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’
A new VFX Notes breaks down the big ticket VFX items in the film.
Watch PFX’s VFX breakdown for ‘Medieval’
Here's how the Czech VFX studio PFX crafted 650 visual effects shots for the Petr Jakl film.
‘I like the idea of doing a real place, underwater tank, LED screen, animatronic and CG, and then glueing them all together’
How ‘Emancipation’ VFX supervisor Rob Legato designed the Will Smith vs alligator scene.
Check out Cause and FX’s breakdown for ‘Mosquito Coast’
See how the studio executed a key storm sequence and other shots in series 2.
Watch Rodeo FX’s digi-double work for ‘Stranger Things 4’
A new breakdown explores the human character VFX.
Strange designs
Wētā FX unleashes zombies, and strange environs, for Multiverse of Madness.
Digital people, CG water, miniatures, morphing: ‘Titanic’ had it all
VFX supervisor Rob Legato looks back on 25 years since the film was released. And yes we talk about Propeller Guy!
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Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
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