Here’s two VFX and virtual production-related tech reveals from SIGGRAPH
ILM showcased Oscar, a suite of tablet-based user interfaces for StageCraft, while Sony Pictures Imageworks unveiled its approach to making light rigs,
‘This Is Animation!’ from Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks lets you learn the craft
Director Kris Pearn and a host of key artists deliver this online training.
How the crazy chicken jockey scene in ‘A Minecraft Movie’ was made
Plus, Sony Pictures Imageworks on ‘cubifying’ characters and environments, making Jack Black and Jason Momoa fly, and dealing with an intense array
Imageworks has posted a bunch of ‘Red One’ breakdowns online
Go behind the scenes.
Snowmen in the sun, and other incredible effects
Behind the visual effects by Imageworks for ‘Red One’.
‘The Polar Express’ is 20. Here’s a fantastic behind the scenes document anyone can access
The mocap'd Robert Zemeckis film featured pioneering work by Sony Pictures Imageworks.
The making of Slimer in ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’
A new VFX breakdown from Imageworks is here.
In-depth on Slimer, Melody, car comps and more from ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’
Highly recommend this Imageworks SIGGRAPH 2024 presentation which breaks down--in detail--so many of the studio's visual effects for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.
The enduring allure of the VFX of ‘Speed’
30 years of this masterpiece.
Making slimer, a sewer dragon and those Mini-Pufts for ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’
Delivering new ghosts, with an old-school feel.
Watch the brand new VFX breakdown for ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ from Imageworks
A new look at the tools and the artistry behind the film.
Watch Imageworks’ VFX breakdown for ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’
Character and environment work here is incredible.
See Imageworks’ new ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ Orgoscope VFX breakdown
The studio showcases the very organic structures needed to make this world.
Giving ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ that crucial hand-made quality
How Imageworks made the linework tool Kismet. A new excerpt from befores & afters magazine.
Into the stylized-verse
A new VFX Notes podcast on 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'.
Several ‘Spider-Verse’ behind the scenes videos released from Sony
They showcase Sony Pictures Imageworks and Sony Pictures Animation's work on the film.
‘This was the first CG animated movie I’ve ever heard of that actually had a dedicated inking team’
Behind the brushstroke, inkline and frame rate tools made for ‘Across the Spider-Verse’, plus case studies on bringing the hugely complex Mumbattan
The ‘Across the Spider-Verse’ Spider-Punk character Hobie was animated with different frame rates for different parts of his own body and accessories
That was just one of the major challenges Sony Pictures Imageworks had to tackle on the film.
Go inside ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’s’ Orgoscope
How Imageworks built the planetoid inside and out.
How the hole-ly Veb in ‘Ant-Man: Quantumania’ came to be
From actor David Dastmalchian in fauxcap on set, to final gooey alien.
Get your 20 years of Spider-Man VFX hit right here
Sony Pictures Imageworks made a compilation video of their work on the many Spider-Man projects, starting in 2002.
Here’s how Imageworks made their CG suit in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’
Imageworks VFX supervisor Chris Waegner explains his studio's digital hybrid Spider-Man suit in 'No Way Home'.
VFX Notes: The VFX of ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’
Behind the scenes in this latest episode.
When you have to craft not one Spider-Man, but three!
Sony Pictures Imageworks on the many characters it had to craft, including three Spider-Men–for the final ‘No Way Home’ showdown.
Gene Kelly’s performances were a direct source of reference for the animators on ‘Vivo’
Also, how to animate a kinkajou, a snake and 2D-looking sequences in 3D.
‘You just described a movie that’s got eight pipelines in it and eight different looks!’
How Imageworks tackled the look and feel of ‘Vivo’.
Watch these 3 Imageworks ‘Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ VFX breakdowns
Behind the scenes of the studio's digi-doubles and CG city work.
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