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Tag: VFX Futures

Podcasts

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

Posted onJuly 20, 2022July 30, 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.

Podcasts

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

Posted onJuly 6, 2022July 19, 2022

A look behind the scenes at these Framestore creatures.

Podcasts

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

Posted onJune 24, 2022July 13, 2022

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

Podcasts

VFX Futures: The end titles of ‘Moon Knight’

Posted onJune 13, 2022

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

Podcasts

VFX Futures: NVIZ on the previs of ‘Morbius’

Posted onMay 25, 2022May 26, 2022

How NVIZ approached their visualization work on the film.

Podcasts

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

Posted onMay 18, 2022

We also get to the bottom of ftrack’s name…

Podcasts

Moving from VFX to games: meet Blinkmoon

Posted onApril 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’

Posted onApril 19, 2022April 19, 2022

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

Podcasts

Concept designer Ben Mauro on building his ‘HUXLEY’ universe

Posted onApril 14, 2022April 15, 2022

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

Podcasts

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

Posted onApril 6, 2022April 10, 2022

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

Podcasts

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

Posted onApril 4, 2022November 23, 2022

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

Podcasts

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

Posted onMarch 29, 2022

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

Podcasts

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

Posted onMarch 22, 2022

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

Podcasts

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

Posted onMarch 19, 2022

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

Podcasts

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

Posted onMarch 14, 2022March 14, 2022

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

Podcasts

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

Posted onMarch 11, 2022

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

Podcasts

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

Posted onFebruary 16, 2022

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

Podcasts

VFX Futures: Douglas Trumbull on his plan to change cinema

Posted onFebruary 11, 2022February 11, 2022

A never released audio interview with the VFX pioneer.

Podcasts

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

Posted onDecember 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

Posted onNovember 29, 2021November 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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