The VFX of Alex Garland’s Civil War

January 10, 2025

Civil War was hailed as one of the year’s most startling and visceral films, Framestore was an early collaborator delivering over a 1,000 shots.

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MPC: crafting Mufasa: The Lion King

January 9, 2025

For Mufasa: The Lion King, MPC delivered 1500 full-CG shots. Find out more with images and a VFX breakdown video.

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Framestore gives Deadpool the finger(s)

January 7, 2025

Framestore’s VFX in Deadpool & Wolverine delivers jaw-dropping surrealism and heartwarming humor, from face-melting powers to a scene-stealing ugly-yet-adorable dog.

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Hands-on with the URSA Cine 12K LF + URSA Cine Immersive

December 16, 2024

Ben Allan ACS CSI, test drives and reviews the URSA Cine 12K LF, which is also the base for the new URSA Cine Immersive. 

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Generative AI in media and entertainment

November 18, 2024

A field guide on how to approach generative AI with interviews from over 12 leading AI industry companies and VFX experts.

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Agatha All Along with Digital Domain

November 13, 2024

Agatha All Along goes a long way with old-school digital comping, blue screen, and set extensions.

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Adele’s world record LED concert experience

November 12, 2024

We discuss how Disguise provided the World record breakingly large LED screen for Adele in Munich.

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The visual effects of Slow Horses

October 31, 2024

Union VFX’s Tim Barber discusses one of the great spy dramas currently on TV.

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Wonder Dynamics up the game with AI Wonder Animation

October 30, 2024

Wonder Dynamics expand to full 3D scene animation integration with AI

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Cinesite for a more perfect (The) Union

October 29, 2024

Cinesite’s realistic action VFX work on Netflix’s The Union.

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Google’s NotebookLM: everyone has a podcast about AI, even AI itself

September 20, 2024

Another incredible jump in large language models (LLM) and generative AI (GenAI) but how does it affect visual effects (vfx)?

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Q&A with DNEG on the environment work in Time Bandits

September 3, 2024

Jelmer Boskma, the VFX Supervisor at DNEG discusses the environment work in Apple TV+: Time Bandits

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The 11 Scientific and Technical Areas for 2024 Sci-Tech Consideration

August 21, 2024

Each year the Sci-Tech Committee signals what they are investigating for the next year’s Awards. Here are this year’s 11 areas.

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DigiPro 2024: conference recap

August 19, 2024

A look back at DigiPro 2024, an outstanding conference held the Saturday before the SIGGRAPH conference begins.

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Shutterstock generative AI 3D models

July 29, 2024

We talk to Dade Orgeron, about Shutterstock’s new 3D generative AI that they have been working on for 16 months.

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What does spatial computing mean exactly?

July 22, 2024

DOP Ben Allan discusses shooting and viewing immersive video for the Apple Vision Pro.

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D-ID agents informed by ChatGPT

June 26, 2024

Putting a face on a ChatGPT

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Machine learning at the node: iPad Pro + ML

June 25, 2024

Machine Learning and the outcome of WWDC 24 and the IPad Pro update

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Inside Out 2: redefining the magic with new technology

June 21, 2024

The first Inside Out film was rendered with RenderMan REYES, but for Inside Out 2 Pixar had to replicate all all the magic with the new RenderMan RIS.

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CGI digital double acting at DI4D

June 20, 2024

DI4D extends the art of CGI digital humans.

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Best papers at CVPR: they are kind of fun!

June 19, 2024

Want to see what will be in AI aps in the future? We have a look at the best research papers released today at the CVPR conference.

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NVIDIA’s JeDi: Joint-Image Diffusion models for fine-tuning generative AI

June 19, 2024

More control of text-to-image generative AI with consistency and around real-world objects from the CVPR conference.

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Jason Zimmerman on the VFX of Star Trek Discovery & Strange New Worlds

June 4, 2024

We speak to the remarkable Jason Zimmerman about the remarkable VFX of Discovery and Strange New Worlds.

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Shooting for the Apple Vision Pro: post-production part two

May 31, 2024

Part two of our look at filming and editing spatial video for the Apple Vision Pro.

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VFX Supervisor Chad Wanstreet: four Robert Downey Jr.s and fleeing Vietnam in The Sympathizer

May 31, 2024

HBO’s The Sympathizer: 70’s drama comedy with not one but four Robert Downey Jr.s! We look at the visual effects it took to bring the four to the screen and more.

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Autodesk buys Wonder Dynamics

May 21, 2024

We talk exclusively to the founders of Wonder Dynamics about their sale to Autodesk, and what it means for users.

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Digital Domain unveils Masquerade3

May 18, 2024

Hanno Basse explains the new Digital Domain markerless Masquerade3 facial animation pipeline.

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Proof share their postvis work on The Creator

May 18, 2024

The Creator was one of the most impressive VFX film of the last year, Proof have released with PreVis reel.

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AI: the battleground for Final Cut Pro vs. Premiere Pro vs. Resolve

May 10, 2024

Generative AI and machine learning are changing the editing landscape with all three major editing packages fighting it out with amazing new AI tools.

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1st SORA music video, How SORA is evolving & guessing possible pricing

May 8, 2024

We continue our coverage of talking to early SORA users, exploring SORA’s newest features, and hypotheses about its possible pricing.

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