Building a real-time pipeline for an animated feature AND an accompanying game all at once
How Hasraf ‘ HaZ’ Dulull jumped into Character Creator, iClone and Unreal Engine for 'RIFT'.
A Q&A with Alberto Mielgo on ‘The Windshield Wiper’
The director's follow-up to 'The Witness'.
What does going global mean for a VFX and animation studio?
Cinesite has done it, here’s how it offers clients and crew a whole new range of choices.
‘There’s nothing more psychotic than a character that is super cute but terrifying at the same’
MPC breaks down its mischievous Mini-Puft shots in ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’.
VFX Notes: ‘Shang-Chi’ – A VFX and martial arts masterpiece
Go behind the scenes of the film with Hugo and Ian!
Unreal Engine has made a ‘Matrix’-themed immersive experience with a photoreal Keanu
The experience has pre-rendered cinematics, real-time rendered scenes, and a car shoot-em-up you can PLAY.
This oner from ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ is still so captivating
'Fellowship' is about to turn 20!
Soon you’ll be able to get stock effects elements…for game engines
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s what ActionVFX and Undertone FX are about to release.
Inside the Burly Brawl in ‘The Matrix Reloaded’
An official making video from Warner Bros. on the VFX innovations launched for this sequence by ESC.
5 VFX-related talks to check out at SIGGRAPH Asia 2021
Pixar, DNEG, Weta Digital, Digital Domain and more.
‘Colin in Black and White’ probably has a lot more visual effects work than you realized
FuseFX’s Josephine Noh tells befores & afters about their work on the show.
Watch DNEG’s ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ VFX breakdown reel
Go behind the scenes of the work.
VFX Artifacts: Shane Mahan on the practical Dilophosaurus in ‘Jurassic Park’
How the 'Spitter' dino was made at Stan Winston Studio.
Shotmakers: The making of that Muncher moment in ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’
The Ecto-1 is back.
Real-time and comp meet: How you can use the new UnrealReader node in Nuke to enhance your real-time renderings
Foundry gets real about real-time rendering.
How VR painting and animation tool Quill helped make this watercolor-like short
Behind the scenes of Baobab's latest film, 'Namoo'.
On The Set Pic: Lost in Space, s3
Always fun to see official photos of chrome ball and Macbeth chart reference.
Here’s how those masterful mirror gags were pulled off in Edgar Wright’s ‘Last Night in Soho’
The film’s visual effects supervisor reveals how they were done via sliding mirrors, clever choreography and digital compositing.
Watch Goodbye Kansas’ ‘Vigil’ VFX breakdown
How some of the trawler and submarine shots were done.
Turning Beastboy into a bat and a tiger
(Just don’t ask where Beastboy’s clothes go).
Avatar: Fire and Ash
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Creativity meets technical curiosity: an FX TD’s role on Predator: Badlands.
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