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Articles

Crafting a plane crash, and its aftermath, for ‘Society of the Snow’

Posted onDecember 9, 2023
Articles

Miniatures, LED walls and live-action animals stitched together: the VFX of ‘Poor Things’

VFX Breakdowns

Watch this collection of Doctor Who 60th anniversary series VFX breakdowns

Articles

How VFX turned Tom Hiddleston’s dance moves into painful-looking timeslipping scenes

VFX Breakdowns

The AI/ML tools one VFX artist used for a new short horror film

Janelle Croshaw Ralla
Articles

Get ready to get excited about…contact sheets!

Why one VFX supe is obsessive about them, and why you should be too.

Game of Thrones' VFX storm
Articles

Creatures, fire and atmospherics: cooking up a ‘Game of Thrones’ VFX storm

A visual breakdown of Weta Digital’s killer shots from the final season.

Example Prediction
Articles

5 VFX and animation events not to miss at Annecy

Not long to go now…

Ryan Reynolds into Pikachu
Articles

How Ryan Reynolds was transformed into a furry yellow Pokémon

Facial capture and the actor’s awesome asymmetrical expressions helped the VFX team find the character.

Detective Pikachu
Articles

4 reasons why the CG Pokémon in ‘Detective Pikachu’ were so well integrated into the film

One of those reasons: the crazy cute fur ball stand-ins.

Jar Jar Binks CG test
Articles, Retro

Jar Jar Binks was nearly a practical suit and a CG head

All about that ILM Jar Jar test which proved the character should be all-digital.

The Phantom Menace
Articles, Retro

Did they *really* use salt to help make the waterfalls in ‘The Phantom Menace’?

Yep.

The Phantom Menace
Articles, Retro

‘It cost about $65 to have a cold pizza delivered in the middle of the night to Skywalker Ranch’

The intensive previs process on ‘The Phantom Menace’.

The Phantom Menace shooting
Articles, Retro

The world already loved lightsabers, but then ‘The Phantom Menace’ made them even better

How new ways of shooting, new digital tools and lots and lots of roto resulted in the laser swords of ‘Episode I’.

Phantom Menace
Articles, Retro

How ILM’s work on ‘Hook’ led to ‘Phantom Menace’s’ podrace

Projection mapping played a key role in making those racers go fast. Real fast.

Avengers Endgame Time Travel
Articles

How VFX channeled ‘Back to the Future’ for ‘Endgame’s’ trip to New York

What needed to happen to make The Avengers watch past versions of themselves?

time suits in ‘Endgame’
Articles

Those time suits in ‘Endgame’ were all completely digital

Every stitch, every crease, was CG.

Thanos_Endgame
Articles

Hey Thanos, what’s new with you?

The extra tools employed by Weta Digital and Digital Domain in crafting Thanos for ‘Endgame’.

Captain America old
Articles

Ageing Captain America to 119, and other adventures in ‘Endgame’ digital make-up

How Lola VFX shaped Tony Stark’s sickness, gave Hank Pym some hip, aged Captain America, and made Stan Lee young again.

Cap vs. Cap fight scene
Articles

Cap vs. Cap: How Chris Evans fought himself in that hilarious scene from ‘Endgame’

…and how past-Cap’s cowl was a late addition to the shots.

Endgame’s’ battle against Thanos
Articles

How ‘Endgame’s’ battle against Thanos went from greenscreen stages to those final epic shots

The story behind those portals, Iron’s Man finger-snap, and making the ‘mega’ blip.

Game of Thrones VFX
Articles

These ‘Game of Thrones’ featurettes are setting the standard for TV show featurettes

Almost as compelling as the show itself.

Behind Smart Hulk
Articles

The smarts behind Smart Hulk

How VFX took Mark Ruffalo to a whole new level of Hulk in ‘Endgame’.

NUKE Vector Perez
Articles

When NUKE is used for more than just compositing

‘I know this sounds crazy.’

The Unsullied_by_Dylan_Sisson_RFH
Articles

Behind that GOT/Monsters, Inc. mash-up from Pixar to demo latest RenderMan release

Sulley will never be the same again.

VFX artists you see in the credits
Articles

A shout-out to all those VFX artists you see in the credits

…and where you can learn more about individual VFX roles.

The LEGO Batman Movie
Articles

Getting to the bottom of ‘story’ on an animated film

Doesn’t story just mean…the script? Nope.

Game of Thrones behind the scene
Articles

More behind the scenes from ‘Game of Thrones’

No coffee cups, though…

The Witness VFX
Articles

Director Alberto Mielgo reveals all about those crazy visuals in ‘The Witness’

It’s not live-action and it’s not motion capture, so what is it?

effects America 2019
Articles

A preview of effects America 2019

Get up to speed with what’s happening in VFX in Montreal.

vampire vomit project
Articles

How to make a vampire vomit. Like, a lot.

Stunts, practical effects and CG combine for that crazy sick scene in ‘What We Do in the Shadows’.

The Mummy VFX
Retro

Remember when Brendan Fraser took on all those mummies by himself?

A VFX oral history of ‘The Mummy’s’ coolest action scene.

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