VFX Futures Archives - befores & afters

VFX Futures: How this new RenderMan Walking Teapot short film pays homage to an animated classic

·July 20, 2022

We talk to Pixar's Dylan Sisson about 'Teapot Meets Potzilla', a homage to Marv Newland's 'Bambi Meets Godzilla' made with RenderMan's Stylized Looks.

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VFX Futures: Making a bird skull god and a hippo god for ‘Moon Knight’

·July 6, 2022

A look behind the scenes at these Framestore creatures.

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VFX Futures: How all those sparks in Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’ were created

·June 24, 2022

Pixar effects supervisor Bill Watral discusses sparks, light speed and more.

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VFX Futures: The end titles of ‘Moon Knight’

·June 13, 2022

Behind the work by Perception on the main-on-ends for the Oscar Isaac series.

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VFX Futures: NVIZ on the previs of ‘Morbius’

·May 25, 2022

How NVIZ approached their visualization work on the film.

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VFX Futures: ftrack’s Fredrik Limsäter on the state of play of production tracking

·May 18, 2022

We also get to the bottom of ftrack's name...

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Moving from VFX to games: meet Blinkmoon

·April 27, 2022

What's different, and what's the same, about gaming and VFX?

Podcasts Retro

Looking back at the practical and digital effects of ‘Anaconda’

·April 19, 2022

Happy 25th birthday to the film's animatronic snake.

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Concept designer Ben Mauro on building his ‘HUXLEY’ universe

·April 14, 2022

How Mauro dreamt up a graphic novel project and has turned it into so much more.

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Zendaya and Tom Holland’s wire work, digi-doubles, and the art of comp’ing hair

·April 6, 2022

How Luma Pictures helped craft the VFX of the opening sequences of 'Spider-Man: No Way Home'.

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VFX Futures: The evolution of Richard Linklater’s rotoscoped animation films

·April 4, 2022

Behind the scenes of 'Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood'.

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De-ageing, destruction and other digital effects in ‘The Adam Project’

·March 29, 2022

Go behind the scenes of the Ryan Reynolds film with the VFX supervisor.

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VFX Futures: The virtual production behind the pirate ship scenes in ‘Our Flag Means Death’

·March 22, 2022

Sam Nicholson from Stargate Studios explains the ocean plate camera array and LED wall shoot for the Taika Waititi show.

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Pixar’s Danielle Feinberg on the studio’s new tech in ‘Turning Red’

·March 19, 2022

A new way of rigging and articulation developed at Pixar called profile movers helped craft the very expressive characters in the film.

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VFX Futures: From VFXer to trucker–Louis Katz’s story

·March 14, 2022

A chat about one person's path in and beyond the visual effects industry.

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VFX Futures: ‘Wheel of Time’ VFX supe Julian Parry on designing the One Power

·March 11, 2022

Behind the scenes of a very specific scene in episode 4 of the series.

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VFX Futures: What it’s like to work on the VFX for a Super Bowl spot

·February 16, 2022

Behind the scenes with Untold Studios' Ben Cronin and the Frito-Lay 'Push It' commercial.

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VFX Futures: Douglas Trumbull on his plan to change cinema

·February 11, 2022

A never released audio interview with the VFX pioneer.

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VFX Futures: VFX supervisor Scott Stokdyk looks back on the digital human breakthroughs in ‘Spider-Man 2’

·December 21, 2021

How Imageworks crafted a digital Alfred Molina and Tobey Maguire back in 2004.

Podcasts VFX Insight

VFX Futures: Pipeline, tools and tech with Cinesite

·November 29, 2021

Cinesite's technology leaders break down the major tech achievements and challenges facing the studio right now in VFX and animation.

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VFX Futures: The making of SideFX’s new renderer, Karma

·November 22, 2021

Go inside the release of the new renderer from SideFX.

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VFX Futures: Behind the scenes of ‘My Universe’ from Coldplay x BTS

·October 27, 2021

Volumetric capture and VFX.

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VFX Futures: The visualization tools and techniques behind The Third Floor

·October 5, 2021

Breaking down The Third Floor's approach to previs and more.

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VFX Futures: The FreeMoCap Project

·September 29, 2021

An inexpensive and open source mocap solution might be on the horizon.

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VFX Futures: How Halon previs’d ‘Free Guy’

·September 21, 2021

Go behind the scenes of the visualization of the film.

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VFX Futures: Christos Obretenov on stylized rendering

·September 15, 2021

Looking at one of the big new trends in animation.

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VFX Futures: Kevin Mack’s abstract virtual reality artworks

·September 6, 2021

The art of making VR art.