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Tag: MPC

Articles

How the ‘Pinocchio’ VFX team took the stop-motion further

Posted onJanuary 24, 2023January 24, 2023

They crafted environments, water, snow, rain and many other effects for the Guillermo del Toro film.

VFX Breakdowns

Watch MPC’s ‘Wednesday’ VFX breakdown

Posted onJanuary 19, 2023January 19, 2023

Monsters!

Articles

‘A massive 5 million polygon scan of the actual cave in Thailand was brought to life so we could extend our practical sets’

Posted onJanuary 14, 2023January 14, 2023

The underwater, cave builds and invisible visual effects of ‘Thirteen Lives’.

VFX Breakdowns

Watch this ‘Thirteen Lives’ VFX breakdown

Posted onJanuary 7, 2023

MPC has released this behind the scenes reel. The film is in the final 10 for consideration of the VFX Oscar.

Podcasts

Alien entities, day for night, and inflatable tube men

Posted onNovember 9, 2022

VFX Notes is back, and it’s back in a big way, with ‘NOPE’.

Podcasts

Kevin Baillie on the virtual production of ‘Pinocchio’

Posted onNovember 7, 2022November 17, 2022

An array of VP techniques helped make the Robert Zemeckis film possible.

Podcasts

‘Pinocchio’: going from virtual production to VFX

Posted onOctober 21, 2022

MPC breaks down its work on the Robert Zemeckis film.

Articles, VFX Breakdowns

Watch MPC’s VFX breakdown for ‘Secret Headquarters’

Posted onSeptember 24, 2022

Befores and afters from the film.

Articles

Cloth sims for an alien entity, making the sky one giant visual effect, and a rampaging chimpanzee

Posted onAugust 31, 2022August 31, 2022

Nope contains some of the most eclectic, and beautiful, visual effects you’ll see this year.

Articles

An effects artist’s dream project: Predator mandibles, cloaking and a bear fight in ‘Prey’

Posted onAugust 30, 2022October 15, 2022

Plus, making a bear fight seven-foot-tall alien creature.

VFX Breakdowns

See this ‘RRR’ making of for the tiger attack on Bheem

Posted onAugust 27, 2022

VFX by MPC, overseen by production visual effects supervisor V Srinivas Mohan.

VFX Breakdowns

Watch MPC’s ‘Resident Evil’ VFX breakdown

Posted onAugust 23, 2022

The VFX studio has released a new reel.

Articles

How ‘The Boys’ VFX team crafted that heartbreaking octopus moment, and *that* penis scene

Posted onJuly 27, 2022August 14, 2022

Behind the biggest, and craziest, visual effects moments in season 3.

Articles

How the ‘2D’ Chip in ‘Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers’ was actually 3D

Posted onJune 29, 2022

And how MPC had to make Seth Rogen’s Uncanny Valley Bob character look as bad as possible.

VFX Breakdowns

Here’s how MPC made that photoreal Harold Ramis digital double

Posted onJune 8, 2022June 8, 2022

Behind the scenes in this new VFX breakdown of the studio’s Egon ghost for Ghostbusters: Afterlife. MPC stunned audience members a few years ago with …

Articles

‘Those close-ups are where it all lives and breathes’

Posted onJune 8, 2022June 23, 2022

The directors of Prehistoric Planet–Andrew R. Jones and Adam Valdez–reveal the secrets behind the live-action/CG hybrid nature documentary series.

Articles

Getting up to speed (again) on ‘Sonic 2’

Posted onMay 19, 2022May 27, 2022

Inside MPC’s character animation for ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’.

Articles

How that massive ocean storm scene was created in the first episode of ‘Vikings: Valhalla’

Posted onApril 13, 2022April 21, 2022

MPC explains the planning, tank shoot and water sims required.

Articles

Behind the stuffies and stand-ins used to make ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’

Posted onDecember 1, 2021

VFX supervisor Blair Clark reveals how stuffies all the way from a small red beanbag to a giant red structure puppeteered by two people were created for the film.

Articles

Look closely and you might even see bicycles stuck to Kong during the Hong Kong fight

Posted onApril 16, 2021June 14, 2021

Yep, bicycles.

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