Wētā’s having a great year with the 95th Oscar Nominations

January 24, 2023

Wētā’s having a great year with 6 of the 20 nominees over 3 films. We speak to Wētā Visual Effects Supervisors from all 3 films.

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Congrats to the Nominees for 21st Annual VES Awards

January 17, 2023

Nominees in 25 categories for this year’s VES awards were selected by VES members at 27 in-person and virtual nomination events conducted worldwide last weekend (the event unfortunately overlapped with the Oscar Bake-off).

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I Wanna Dance With (the volumetric capture of) Somebody

January 14, 2023

In the new Whitney Houston Bio-pic, the film’s crowds were made with volumetric capture – a first for this approach at this scale. We talk with Zero VFX’s Brian Drewes.

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All Quiet on the Western Front VFX

January 4, 2023

All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the shortlisted films in this year’s VFX bakeoff.

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Exclusive: Joe Letteri Discusses Wētā FX’s new Facial Pipeline on Avatar 2

December 21, 2022

Senior VFX Supervisor Joe Letteri discusses in depth, Wētā FX’s new APFS pipeline – the new face system in Avatar: The Way of Water, along with Prof. Karan Singh.

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Invisible Effects of living in the WestWorld

November 17, 2022

WestWorld aimed to do as much work as they could in camera, but they still relied on a host of invisible effects work by FutureWorks.

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Volumetric team Arcturus expands with help from Epic and Autodeck

November 16, 2022

Volumetric startup Arcturus received $11M Series A funding, including investments from Epic Games and Autodesk.

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UE5.1 adds M&E tools to an impressive UE5 release

November 15, 2022

A look at the Virtual Production improvements in UE5.1

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Twenty Years of Spider-Man at Sony Pictures Imageworks

November 14, 2022

Congrats to all the Artists at SPI on 20 years of Spider-Man

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She-Hulk: Wētā’s Shade of Green

October 27, 2022

We sit down with Wētā FX to discuss the character animation of She-Hulk with VFX Supervisor Guy Williams and Animation Director Sidney Kombo-Kintombo

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Why the Campanile Movie, 25 years on, is still so important

October 5, 2022

Following his Lifetime Achievement Emmy, Paul Debevec looks back 25 years to his original Campanile Movie.

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Never Mind the Chaos, Here’s Danny Boyle’s Pistol

October 2, 2022

Union discuss the VFX for the Sex Pistol’s bio-pic series Pistol.

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Digital Domains AI Quantum Leap

September 30, 2022

Digital Domain plays ball with Joe Montana in 1984.

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NVIDIA ACE Enables Easier Interactive Avatars

September 20, 2022

NVIDIA unveiled a no-code digital human chatbot link to Epic’s Metahumans at GTC.

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The Virtual Production behind the Soccer TVC for Caledon Football Club

September 15, 2022

We explore the technical issues in this advanced Virtual Production with film makers and VP experts.

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Congrats to the Creative Emmy Winners

September 4, 2022

Congrats to all the Emmy nominees and winners in 2022

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Bullet Train

August 22, 2022

Taking a ride on Bullet Train with DNEG

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Proof that F9 is both Fast & Furious

August 10, 2022

We look at the Previs for The Fast and Furious: F9, The Fast Saga by Proof Inc

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AWS Thinkbox: Deadline, a Brief History

August 3, 2022

With the AWS Thinkbox products now free of charge, a look back at the 21 years of Deadline.

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Netflix buys Animal Logic

July 19, 2022

Netflix expands even further by buying Animal Logic.

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MetaHuman Brings History To Life

June 23, 2022

Case study of Metahuman in Modern Archeology

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Prehistoric Planet

June 15, 2022

The remarkable realism of Prehistoric Planet from Apple, BBC NHU, and MPC.

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Huge update for MetaHuman : Import your own head!

June 9, 2022

The new mesh importer for MetaHuman Creator is a game-changer for Digital Humans in UE5

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Majestically Morphing Morbius

June 8, 2022

We talk to Joel Behrens, VFX Supervisor at Digital Domain about Morbius’ digital transformation.

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Realtime Fractals in Unreal

June 7, 2022

Something familiar that you have never seen before – in real-time: UE5 Fractals

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fxphd: online vfx training for professionals

June 2, 2022

Our sister site fxphd.com is a leading provider of online training courses for professionals in the visual effects and animation industry. Their courses are designed to help professionals stay up-to-date with the latest techniques and software, and to develop the skills they need to advance their careers.

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Deep Dive on Wētā FX Face Fabrication System

June 2, 2022

A deep dive into the Machine Learning of WĒTĀ FX’s Wētā FX Face Fabrication System

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Autodesk + RADiCAL: AI-powered 3D Motion Capture

May 26, 2022

Autodesk invests in RADiCAL and their AI-powered 3D Motion Capture System.

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Making of (all the) Spider-Man: No Way Home

May 26, 2022

Video breakdowns of SPI’s great Comp, Environment, suit, and FX work for Spider-Man

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Doug Meet Zoey

May 6, 2022

Digital Domain Gives a Face to AI with ‘Zoey,’ at the FMX Conference in Germany

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