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Tag: Cinesite

Articles

Crafting new tools and hacking existing ones to hit a stylized aesthetic

Cinesite discusses its role on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.

VFX Breakdowns

Watch Cinesite’s ‘The Witcher’ s3 VFX breakdown

Showcasing the Aeschna sea monster, the deadly Flesh Monster, and Ring of Fire.

Retro

It’s Bamfing time!

Has there ever quite been anything as cool as the original Bamfing effect in ‘X2’? UPDATED! 

Podcasts

Bringing ‘Matilda’ to life with more VFX than you might at first realize

How Cinesite and other studios crafted the visual effects of Matilda.

Articles, Podcasts

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

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’

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

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

VFX Breakdowns

Cinesite breaks down its ‘Witcher’ Basilisks

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

VFX Insight

How to get your foot in the VFX and animation door

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’

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?

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

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

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’

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

Robots, ships and alien creatures.

FTRACK
Articles

A personal experience with ftrack

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

So. Many. Befores. And. Afters.

Bohemian Rhapsody
Articles

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

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

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

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  • Imagining a singing, dancing croc on set with Actor Capture

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