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Tag: Stranger Things

VFX Breakdowns

Check out some of Rodeo FX’s recent ‘Breaking down the breakdowns’ on ST4

Posted onMarch 11, 2023

Here’s a couple of recent eps of their fun series.

VFX Breakdowns

Watch Rodeo FX’s digi-double work for ‘Stranger Things 4’

Posted onFebruary 8, 2023

A new breakdown explores the human character VFX.

VFX Breakdowns

How Mackevision pulled off those fiery Vecna scenes

Posted onSeptember 3, 2022

Killer VFX in Stranger Things 4.

VFX Breakdowns

Watch ILP’s ‘Stranger Things 4’ breakdown

Posted onAugust 27, 2022

Important Looking Pirates shares its making of.

VFX Breakdowns

Watch DNEG’s behind the scenes look at ‘Stranger Things 4’

Posted onAugust 24, 2022

Bats!

Podcasts

VFX Notes: OMG that goop in ‘Stranger Things 3’

Posted onJuly 27, 2022

Melting rats, goop, the Tom/Bruce Monster and Starcourt Mall are all covered in VFX Notes.

VFX Breakdowns

An official ‘Becoming Vecna’ video with Barrie Gower

Posted onJuly 19, 2022July 19, 2022

Netflix has posted this short doco about the make-up effects work for Vecna.

Podcasts

VFX Notes: Demodogs, Dart, Mind Flayer and the Gate in ‘Stranger Things 2’

Posted onJuly 11, 2022

We cover the VFX of ‘Stranger Things 2’.

Podcasts

VFX Notes: Meet the Demogorgon from ‘Stranger Things 1’

Posted onJuly 4, 2022

The first ep in our ‘Stranger Things’ series.

Articles

Behind Vecna’s ‘UV texture crawl’ vines, the fight of a Demogorgon, and the de-ageing of Millie Bobby Brown

Posted onJune 22, 2022June 28, 2022

Behind the visual effects of volume one of ‘Stranger Things 4’.

VFX Breakdowns

Spoiler alert: the VFX of ‘Stranger Things’, s4

Posted onJune 14, 2022

In this Netflix video, the Duffer Brothers break down a key fight scene.

Articles

Oh man, the art of melting CG rats

Posted onFebruary 4, 2021February 4, 2021

Rodeo FX is back to break down the breakdown for ‘Stranger Things 3’.

Articles

Go even more behind the scenes of this ‘Stranger Things’ monster

Posted onJanuary 21, 2021January 25, 2021

Rodeo FX breaks down the Tom/Bruce creature in this bespoke video.

Articles

A visual journey into Scanline’s ‘Stranger Things’ machine

Posted onSeptember 15, 2020June 14, 2021

Go step-by-step into the VFX of the Russian machine.

Articles

Do you love VFX breakdowns? Do you love ‘Stranger Things 3’? Then get ready…

Posted onOctober 3, 2019May 17, 2020

These brand new reels from Rodeo FX show a lot of the process for their Mind Flayer work (and also exploding rats, of course).

Stranger Things 3
Articles

Stranger Things 3’s Mind Flayer was played by a stuntman in red spandex and a shiny helmet

Posted onJuly 23, 2019May 23, 2020

…and the final monster at the mall began as a beach ball.

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