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Tag: Cinesite

Articles, Podcasts

A deep dive into Cinesite’s visual effects for ‘Wakanda Forever’

Posted onMarch 6, 2023

The latest b&a podcast is all about the film’s Boston bridge chase and surrounding scenes.

Articles, Magazine

Shape language, silhouettes and scanning ‘nurnies’

Posted onFebruary 19, 2023

What it took to design Cinesite’s creatures for s2 of The Witcher. The basilisks and chernobog featured in season 2 of Netflix’s The Witcher were …

Podcasts, VFX Insight

VFX Futures: The VFX art department–a chat with Cinesite’s Madeleine Scott-Spencer

Posted onApril 12, 2022November 20, 2022

How Cinesite’s art department operates, and how it has adapted to virtual production workflows.

VFX Breakdowns

Cinesite breaks down its ‘Witcher’ Basilisks

Posted onFebruary 8, 2022

See the VFX studio’s VFX reel for the creatures.

VFX Insight

How to get your foot in the VFX and animation door

Posted onFebruary 3, 2022February 10, 2022

Inside Cinesite’s LEAP program, plus details of the fairness, diversity and inclusion initiatives at the studio.

Articles

From on-set to final performance: the s2 creatures of ‘The Witcher’

Posted onFebruary 2, 2022

VFX supervisor Daði Einarsson breaks down Basilisks, Eskel Leshy and Nivellen. After watching season 2 of The Witcher and seeing some of the great behind …

VFX Insight

What does going global mean for a VFX and animation studio?

Posted onDecember 13, 2021December 15, 2021

Cinesite has done it, here’s how it offers clients and crew a whole new range of choices.

Podcasts, VFX Insight

VFX Futures: Pipeline, tools and tech with Cinesite

Posted onNovember 29, 2021November 29, 2021

Cinesite’s technology leaders break down the major tech achievements and challenges facing the studio right now in VFX and animation.

Articles

Cinesite turns 30: a look back at the VFX studio’s history

Posted onNovember 2, 2021November 3, 2021

Cineon, digital workflows, visual effects highlights and animated beginnings.

Articles

How to make a trawler sink and a glider fly (and go underwater): 6 of the biggest visual effects scenes in ‘No Time To Die’

Posted onOctober 26, 2021October 26, 2021

We also cover the ice fall, Matera scenes, Land Rover chase and those final devastating explosions.

Articles

A whole bunch of ‘Lost in Space’ s2 VFX breakdowns in one place

Posted onJune 13, 2020June 16, 2020

Robots, ships and alien creatures.

FTRACK
Articles

A personal experience with ftrack

Posted onNovember 28, 2019May 14, 2020

How do people actually use ftrack day to day?

Avengers: Endgame’ VFX breakdowns
Articles

Watch a whole ton of official ‘Avengers: Endgame’ VFX breakdowns in one place

Posted onSeptember 7, 2019May 23, 2020

So. Many. Befores. And. Afters.

Bohemian Rhapsody
Articles

What to do when you need to fill a stadium, or two

Posted onAugust 28, 2019May 23, 2020

Behind the scenes of the crowds of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘Rocketman’ and ‘Yesterday’.

Sphere
Retro

‘We tried a million things’ – the oral history of ‘Sphere’s’ sphere

Posted onMarch 22, 2019February 13, 2023

The sphere in ‘Sphere’, and how it was made.

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