VFXShow 268: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3

The team drop the needle on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3

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

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.

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

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VFXShow 268: AI for VFX Special Ep.

In this Special Ep, the team explores the incredible advances happening in AI and their implications for VFX Artists.

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

RenderMan turns 25, Lightwave Moves, and Clarisse Dies

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fxpodcast #352 WonderStudio’s Founders Discuss their AI Breakout Tool

We talk to Wonder Dynamics 2 co-founders VFX Sup Nikola Todorovic and Tye Sheridan (the star of Ready Player One and X-men).

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VFXShow 267: The Last of Us & The Mandalorian

In this Ep we discuss both The Last of Us and The Mandalorian.

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Virtual Influences and Digital Humans at Scale: Isaac Bratzel

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

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And I never said a word…

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

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AI Generative Fashion Videos

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

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Meta Human Animator

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

NVIDIA joins with Shutterstock for generative 3D

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And the Winners are …

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

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Elvis is in the (VFX) House

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

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fxpodcast #351 ILM’s Craig Hammock – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Oscar Nominated Craig Hammock discusses Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

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fxpodcast #350 Sci Tech Winner Ryan Laney

Ryan Laney is to receive a commendation (special plaque) for his inventive use of AI facial technology to give a digital “veil” to protect identities while preserving facial emotion in documentary filmmaking.

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Congrats to the VES winners 2023

All the winners of the 2023 VES awards

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Flying Top Gun: Maverick with Ryan Tudhope

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

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fxpodcast #349 Move AI

Move.ai makes markerless motion capture with iPhones that match existing tech using incredible machine learning, (and may soon exceed it)

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VFXShow 266: Oscar Nominations

The guys discuss the three VFX nominees for the 95th Oscar.

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Autodesk’s open sourcing of RV

Autodesk and Shotgrid discuss the move to make RV Open Source

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

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

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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95th Oscar VFX Bake-off from LA

We report from LA on the 95th Academy Awards VIsual Effects Bake-off.

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I Wanna Dance With (the volumetric capture of) Somebody

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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fxpodcast #347 Emancipation, in depth with Rob Legato.

Three-time Oscar Winner Rob Legato joins us to do a deep dive into Emancipation, a true story of slavery and survival.

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All Quiet on the Western Front VFX

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

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