VFX Notes breaks down ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’
Hugo and Ian continue the 2025 VFX Oscar nominees season of VFX Notes.
Go deep into ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ in latest print mag
Full of before/after photos and tech info on Wētā FX's visual effects.
How that crazy car crash oner in ‘Carry-On’ was made
Including filming actors on a bluescreen rotisserie rig.
Going behind the scenes on the visual effects of ‘Alien: Romulus’
'Alien: Romulus' visual effects supervisor Eric Barba about the VFX Oscar nominated film.
Adding to the Offspring, and crashing a massive space station
Behind Wētā FX’s killer visual effects on ‘Alien: Romulus.’
Yep, Wētā FX did it, they turned Robbie Williams into a chimpanzee
Behind the scenes of ‘Better Man’.
The visual effects of ‘Better Man’
A new video featurette on Wētā FX's role in turning Robbie Williams into a chimpanzee.
How Wētā FX animated the Bloater in ‘The Last of Us’
A new behind the scenes video is out.
Wētā FX breaks down comp in ‘The Last of Us’
A new narrated video is out.
See how Wētā FX built the Salt Lake City baseball park environment from ‘The Last of Us’
The VFX studio has posted a short making of for the scene.
How Wētā FX made that 5400 frame Vermithor dragon oner in ‘House of the Dragon’
Plus, behind the scenes of their dragon riding VFX.
Watch this FX sims breakdown from ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’
See the reel from Wētā FX.
New before/after clip from ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’
From the 'Raw Cut' feature on the 4K Blu-ray release.
The way of water (in ‘Ripley’)
How Wētā FX delivered invisible effects for the gripping boat sequence. From befores & afters magazine in print.
Watch this new ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ VFX featurette
A new video featuring Wētā FX visual effects supervisor Erik Winquist breaks down some of the film's key moments.
Behind the mask: how intricate facial animation was added onto Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool
How Wētā FX crafted the lead character’s facial performance in Deadpool & Wolverine with Nuke and some machine learning techniques.
Return to Pandora in the latest befores & afters print magazine!
This special issue of befores & afters magazine takes a new deep dive into Avatar: The Way of Water with Wētā FX.
New ‘Apes’ featurette from Wētā FX includes behind the scenes film footage
The Wētā FX 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' team discuss their favorite characters.
Watch these amazing invisible effects crafted for the boat scene in ‘Ripley’
Featuring digital water, environments, blood and even digi-doubles from Wētā FX.
Issue #18 of the mag is out! Learn all about big creature anim
Covering creature animation, with in-depth analysis of Fallout, YuYu Hakusho, Spaceman, and Damsel, and a print edition version of the history of
How exactly does Wētā FX take on set performance capture and translate it into living, breathing apes?
Find out in this in-depth VFX look behind the scenes of ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’.
Wētā FX artists on the ‘punk’ Suko, ‘gangster’ Skar King and ‘cat-like’ Shimo they crafted for ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’
Plus, how that iconic shot of Kong and Godzilla running side by side was made for the film.
Hear from director Wes Ball and VFX supervisor Erik Winquist on ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’
Get an early perspective on the film's visual effects work.
Behind the Oscar-nominated short ‘WAR IS OVER!’
How the short was made, including how Wētā FX used Unreal Engine to craft the film's stylized look and feel.
‘It’s almost like a painterly process to bring in these aberrations’
The Deep Defocus toolset at Wētā FX. An excerpt from issue #14 of befores & afters magazine.
‘The water needed to have a performance’
How the ‘NYAD’ visual effects team helped turn Annette Bening into an open ocean endurance swimmer.
Avatar: Fire and Ash
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Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation
How the right school helped this compositor land his latest credit on 'Invasion' season 3.
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