DigiPro23: Told in Pictures

August 28, 2023

Highlights from DigiPro 2023 told (mainly) in pictures

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AI Panels and Talks: Videos from SIGGRAPH with fxguide

August 20, 2023

AI panels at SIGGRAPH, including Reshaping the Film & Television Industry with Generative AI + Crashing a Live Broadcast.

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Extraction 2 at FuseFX

August 16, 2023

Extraction2 sees Chris Hemsworth back from the brink of death, as commando Tyler Rake with some major support from the team at FuseFX

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Mercedes: Day for Night Mercedes-Benz TVC

August 15, 2023

We talk to director Vico Sharabani of The-Artery in NY about his new high-end TVC spot for Mercedes-Benz.

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Citadel VFX at DNEG

August 9, 2023

Dan Baldwin led DNEG’s team as they build mountains, blow up trains, and race down ski slopes in The Citadel.

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How they did that Brilliant Women’s Football Commercial

August 8, 2023

Nicolas Vogel, Flame artist & VFX Supervisor at Prodigious in France headed the Orange – la Compil des Bleues TV commercial which has gone viral the world over.

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Framestore’s Black Mirror ‘Mazey Day’ Frenzy

July 21, 2023

Frametore’s Black Mirror Werewolf Transformation.

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Congrats to the VFX Emmy Nominees

July 12, 2023

Congrats to all the Emmy Nominations for 2023.

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Union Power (The VFX behind The Power)

July 12, 2023

We speak to Union VFX in the UK about The Power

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AI aided Facial Animation for Call of Duty Modern Warfare II

July 6, 2023

DI4D + Infinity Ward delivered the facial animation for Call of Duty Modern Warfare II. They processed over 4 hours of facial performance data with a new AI pipeline.

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Guardians Vol3: How they delivered those brilliant CG character performances

July 3, 2023

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 will be remembered for having some of the finest character animation work yet seen in the Marvel Universe.

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SwitchLight: Your AI Light Switch

June 22, 2023

SwitchLight is a new AI tool that promises to radically change relighting actor. (Including exclusive first look at moving footage)

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Apple M2 Studio Learns Nuke Machine Learning

June 14, 2023

The new Nuke with Apple Silicon native CopyCat shows why the new Apple M2 Ultra is a great machine learning VFX tool.

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Cocaine Bear Postvis with Halon Entertainment co-founder Brad Alexander

June 14, 2023

Halon’s Postviz reel for Cocaine Bear.

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Guardians Vol 3: How They Did That Incredible Hallway Shot

June 2, 2023

We talk to Wētā FX’s Guy Williams and deep dive into that Hallyway one-shot in Guardians Vol3.

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Neural surface reconstruction from a phone with Neuralangelo

June 1, 2023

Neuralangelo creates dense scene of objects and very large-scale indoor/outdoor scenes with high detail, from a normal video.

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A Possible Future of Wide Scale Volumetric: NeRFs, AI and Experiencials

May 15, 2023

We answer a much asked question: What is the next big thing with AI in media and entertainment?

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Picard : Star Trek at its VFX finest

May 5, 2023

Picard’s VFX honors both the tradition and inspiration of decades of Trek VFX.

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What a week in 3D: RenderMan, Lightwave, and Clarisse

April 28, 2023

RenderMan turns 25, Lightwave Moves, and Clarisse Dies

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Skinning the Onion with DNEG’s VFX Supervisors on Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

April 23, 2023

We talk to Sameer Malik, VFX Supervisor, DNEG, and Philipp Wolf, Executive Producer, about The Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

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Union’s VFX for Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin

April 18, 2023

Union’s VFX work on The Banshees of Inisherin

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Virtual Influences and Digital Humans at Scale: Isaac Bratzel

April 3, 2023

We talk to Isaac Bratzel about his new Digital Human company: Avataros

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And I never said a word…

March 31, 2023

We’ve been working on more (fun) machine learning demos. Respeecher and Pinscreen join us to demonstrate advanced AI Facial Re-enactment.

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AI Generative Fashion Videos

March 23, 2023

London College of Fashion and Framestore’s Johannes Saam discuss how to make generative fashion AI videos

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Meta Human Animator

March 23, 2023

MetaHuman Animator is announced along with UE for Fortnight and much more as part of the ’23 State of Unreal keynote at GDC

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GTC: Shutterstock Teams with NVIDIA to Build AI Models for Generative 3D

March 22, 2023

NVIDIA joins with Shutterstock for generative 3D

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And the Winners are …

March 12, 2023

Congrats to all the teams that worked on the Oscar VFX films this year.

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Elvis is in the (VFX) House

March 9, 2023

Fin Design+ Effects discusses their work on the multi-oscar nominated film Elvis.

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Congrats to the VES winners 2023

February 16, 2023

All the winners of the 2023 VES awards

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Flying Top Gun: Maverick with Ryan Tudhope

February 14, 2023

A Deep Dive with Oscar Nominated Ryan Tudhope, the Visual Effects Supervisor on Top Gun: Maverick.

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