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Articles

Performance, hair and…sequins: Wētā FX on its toughest tasks in ‘She-Hulk’

The VFX studio’s history in crafting photoreal CG humans and human-like characters was further extended on the series.

Posted onNovember 16, 2022
VFX Insight

VFX for indie horror: the making of ‘Revealer’

Posted onNovember 15, 2022

How a combination of invisible effects, digital blood and CG snakes helped expand the story and production value of an indie horror.

Articles

What you need to know about the ASC Framing Decision List

Posted onNovember 15, 2022

It’s a new specification for standardizing how the documentation, tracking and use of framing.

VFX Breakdowns

Get your 20 years of Spider-Man VFX hit right here

Posted onNovember 15, 2022November 15, 2022

Sony Pictures Imageworks made a compilation video of their work on the many Spider-Man projects, starting in 2002.

Podcasts

Rob Bredow on the state of play of virtual production at ILM

Posted onNovember 14, 2022November 17, 2022

The latest on StageCraft and other tech at ILM.

VFX Breakdowns

You had me at giant goose motion base

Posted onNovember 14, 2022

Watch this behind the scenes with Jason Momoa riding a giant goose motion base for ‘Slumberland.’

On The Set Pic

On The Set Pic: ‘Slumberland’

Posted onNovember 11, 2022

Jason Momoa and Marlow Barkley in the Francis Lawrence film.

Articles

Working on ‘She-Hulk’ gave animators a rare chance to bring a fully CG photoreal female character to life

Posted onNovember 10, 2022

Wētā FX on the unique challenges of this superhero.

Podcasts

Alien entities, day for night, and inflatable tube men

Posted onNovember 9, 2022

VFX Notes is back, and it’s back in a big way, with ‘NOPE’.

VFX Breakdowns

Some fascinating invisible effects work here in ‘Blonde’

Posted onNovember 9, 2022

Great work by Temperimental VFX.

Magazine

‘All this is not to do with animatronics. It’s to do with characters’

Posted onNovember 9, 2022

How one animatronics designer and puppeteer has made his way into the world of Star Wars, Dark Crystal and more.

VFX Insight

Old-school miniature plane explosions + new-school VFX techniques

Posted onNovember 8, 2022

How Wolf Hound utilized miniature plane models for its dynamic aerial battles.

Articles

Where the invisible effects sing

Posted onNovember 8, 2022

Crafty Apes breaks down their key shots in ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’.

Podcasts

Kevin Baillie on the virtual production of ‘Pinocchio’

Posted onNovember 7, 2022November 17, 2022

An array of VP techniques helped make the Robert Zemeckis film possible.

Retro

Celebrating 25 years of ‘Starship Troopers’

Posted onNovember 7, 2022November 7, 2022

“The only good bug is a dead bug.”

VFX Breakdowns

Watch these ‘Wendell & Wild’ stop-motion time-lapses

Posted onNovember 7, 2022

Stop-mo timelapses rule.

On The Set Pic

On The Set Pic: ‘Wendell & Wild’

Posted onNovember 4, 2022

One of the stop-motion set-ups for the film.

Articles

Digital Domain on the art and tech of a female CG character

Posted onNovember 3, 2022November 12, 2022

How new developments in the studio’s Masquerade and Charlatan tools were part of its digital human work for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.

Magazine

What it was like to work on Phil Tippett’s ‘MAD GOD’

Posted onNovember 2, 2022

An animator’s perspective (and a special bonus excerpt from befores & afters magazine).

VFX Insight

The art of tracer fire

Posted onNovember 1, 2022

More behind the scenes of the visual effects of Wolf Hound.

Podcasts

How to make a CG mountain lion (and make it attack Kevin Hart)

Posted onNovember 1, 2022November 17, 2022

Milk VFX breaks down their work for ‘Me Time’.

VFX Insight

4 VFX-life horror stories to help you through Halloween

Posted onOctober 31, 2022November 1, 2022

We asked artists to share shocking tales of visual effects life from the field: on set and back at the studio.

VFX Breakdowns

Behind the scenes of ‘She-Hulk’

Posted onOctober 30, 2022

Marvel’s official VFX behind the scenes video is here. Stay tuned for in-depth befores & afters coverage, too.

VFX Breakdowns

Storm’s End, and battling dragons, in ‘House of the Dragon’

Posted onOctober 29, 2022

A new HBO Max featurette is here.

Magazine

Inside issue #7 of b&a mag: animatronics, creature effects and Phil Tippett’s ‘MAD GOD’

Posted onOctober 28, 2022November 19, 2022

The latest issue of befores & afters magazine has arrived!

VFX Insight

The Reallusion tools that helped make this mysterious Unreal Fellowship short

Posted onOctober 27, 2022October 28, 2022

Behind the scenes of Dissós, with director Steven Elford.

VFX Breakdowns

A quick look at some of the effects in ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities’

Posted onOctober 27, 2022

See the rats and the demon via shorts released by Netflix.

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