Watch MPC’s previs reel for ‘Rise of the Beasts’
Includes previs and final shot comparisons.
Watch MPC’s VFX breakdown for ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’
Their reel has been released.
‘Cardboard cut-outs were our mainstay’
Making the second season of ‘Prehistoric Planet’.
Issue #12 of the print mag is out, and covers virtual production short films
Go behind the scenes of Framestore's latest short, FLITE, plus other shorts made with real-time tools.
What makes up a ‘Transformers’ scene
How MPC orchestrated the first meeting between Noah and the Autobots in ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’.
Behind the bluescreen shoot that brought ‘The Little Mermaid’s’ underwater scenes to life
A step-by-step guide from production visual effects supervisor Tim Burke on the making of the underwater scenes in the film.
Watch MPC’s ‘Quantumania’ VFX breakdown
Quantum realm revealed.
VFX supe and director Adam Valdez on the new tech in his UE5 short ‘Brave Creatures’
The short utilized the new Path Tracer feature in Unreal Engine.
Watch this video breakdown of the VFX of ‘Pinocchio’
Hey You Guys features this MPC reel from the film.
How the hole-ly Veb in ‘Ant-Man: Quantumania’ came to be
From actor David Dastmalchian in fauxcap on set, to final gooey alien.
Hovering between the real and surreal
MPC breaks down the visual effects for several key scenes in Alejandro Iñárritu’s ‘Bardo.’
Watch MPC’s VFX breakdown for ‘Nope’
The studio showcases the Nope work in this video.
The unique challenge of making a stalking, unfolding, alien entity that hides amongst the clouds
MPC’s key role in designing Nope’s ‘Jean Jacket’: an excerpt from issue #8 of befores & afters magazine.
See the on-location and VFX process for ‘Prehistoric Planet’
MPC has released a new behind the scenes video.
How the ‘Pinocchio’ VFX team took the stop-motion further
They crafted environments, water, snow, rain and many other effects for the Guillermo del Toro film.
Watch MPC’s ‘Wednesday’ VFX breakdown
Monsters!
‘A massive 5 million polygon scan of the actual cave in Thailand was brought to life so we could extend our practical sets’
The underwater, cave builds and invisible visual effects of 'Thirteen Lives'.
Watch this ‘Thirteen Lives’ VFX breakdown
MPC has released this behind the scenes reel. The film is in the final 10 for consideration of the VFX Oscar.
Alien entities, day for night, and inflatable tube men
VFX Notes is back, and it's back in a big way, with 'NOPE'.
Kevin Baillie on the virtual production of ‘Pinocchio’
An array of VP techniques helped make the Robert Zemeckis film possible.
‘Pinocchio’: going from virtual production to VFX
MPC breaks down its work on the Robert Zemeckis film.
Watch MPC’s VFX breakdown for ‘Secret Headquarters’
Befores and afters from the film.
Cloth sims for an alien entity, making the sky one giant visual effect, and a rampaging chimpanzee
Nope contains some of the most eclectic, and beautiful, visual effects you’ll see this year.
An effects artist’s dream project: Predator mandibles, cloaking and a bear fight in ‘Prey’
Plus, making a bear fight seven-foot-tall alien creature.
See this ‘RRR’ making of for the tiger attack on Bheem
VFX by MPC, overseen by production visual effects supervisor V Srinivas Mohan.
Watch MPC’s ‘Resident Evil’ VFX breakdown
The VFX studio has released a new reel.
Avatar: Fire and Ash
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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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