‘He had so much stuff on him it was crazy’
The making of Werewolf by Night’s Man-Thing.
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.
VFX for indie horror: the making of ‘Revealer’
How a combination of invisible effects, digital blood and CG snakes helped expand the story and production value of an indie horror.
What you need to know about the ASC Framing Decision List
It's a new specification for standardizing how the documentation, tracking and use of framing.
Get your 20 years of Spider-Man VFX hit right here
Sony Pictures Imageworks made a compilation video of their work on the many Spider-Man projects, starting in 2002.
Rob Bredow on the state of play of virtual production at ILM
The latest on StageCraft and other tech at ILM.
You had me at giant goose motion base
Watch this behind the scenes with Jason Momoa riding a giant goose motion base for 'Slumberland.'
On The Set Pic: ‘Slumberland’
Jason Momoa and Marlow Barkley in the Francis Lawrence film.
Working on ‘She-Hulk’ gave animators a rare chance to bring a fully CG photoreal female character to life
Wētā FX on the unique challenges of this superhero.
Alien entities, day for night, and inflatable tube men
VFX Notes is back, and it's back in a big way, with 'NOPE'.
Some fascinating invisible effects work here in ‘Blonde’
Great work by Temperimental VFX.
‘All this is not to do with animatronics. It’s to do with characters’
How one animatronics designer and puppeteer has made his way into the world of Star Wars, Dark Crystal and more.
Old-school miniature plane explosions + new-school VFX techniques
How Wolf Hound utilized miniature plane models for its dynamic aerial battles.
Where the invisible effects sing
Crafty Apes breaks down their key shots in ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’.
Kevin Baillie on the virtual production of ‘Pinocchio’
An array of VP techniques helped make the Robert Zemeckis film possible.
Celebrating 25 years of ‘Starship Troopers’
"The only good bug is a dead bug."
Watch these ‘Wendell & Wild’ stop-motion time-lapses
Stop-mo timelapses rule.
On The Set Pic: ‘Wendell & Wild’
One of the stop-motion set-ups for the film.
Digital Domain on the art and tech of a female CG character
How new developments in the studio’s Masquerade and Charlatan tools were part of its digital human work for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
What it was like to work on Phil Tippett’s ‘MAD GOD’
An animator’s perspective (and a special bonus excerpt from befores & afters magazine).
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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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