The VFX of Alex Garland’s Civil War
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.
Read the ArticleMPC: crafting Mufasa: The Lion King
For Mufasa: The Lion King, MPC delivered 1500 full-CG shots. Find out more with images and a VFX breakdown video.
Read the ArticleFramestore gives Deadpool the finger(s)
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.
Read the ArticleHands-on with the URSA Cine 12K LF + URSA Cine Immersive
Ben Allan ACS CSI, test drives and reviews the URSA Cine 12K LF, which is also the base for the new URSA Cine Immersive.
Read the ArticleGenerative AI in media and entertainment
A field guide on how to approach generative AI with interviews from over 12 leading AI industry companies and VFX experts.
Read the ArticleAgatha All Along with Digital Domain
Agatha All Along goes a long way with old-school digital comping, blue screen, and set extensions.
Read the ArticleAdele’s world record LED concert experience
We discuss how Disguise provided the World record breakingly large LED screen for Adele in Munich.
Read the ArticleThe visual effects of Slow Horses
Union VFX’s Tim Barber discusses one of the great spy dramas currently on TV.
Read the ArticleWonder Dynamics up the game with AI Wonder Animation
Wonder Dynamics expand to full 3D scene animation integration with AI
Read the ArticleCinesite for a more perfect (The) Union
Cinesite’s realistic action VFX work on Netflix’s The Union.
Read the ArticleGoogle’s NotebookLM: everyone has a podcast about AI, even AI itself
Another incredible jump in large language models (LLM) and generative AI (GenAI) but how does it affect visual effects (vfx)?
Read the ArticleQ&A with DNEG on the environment work in Time Bandits
Jelmer Boskma, the VFX Supervisor at DNEG discusses the environment work in Apple TV+: Time Bandits
Read the ArticleThe 11 Scientific and Technical Areas for 2024 Sci-Tech Consideration
Each year the Sci-Tech Committee signals what they are investigating for the next year’s Awards. Here are this year’s 11 areas.
Read the ArticleDigiPro 2024: conference recap
A look back at DigiPro 2024, an outstanding conference held the Saturday before the SIGGRAPH conference begins.
Read the ArticleShutterstock generative AI 3D models
We talk to Dade Orgeron, about Shutterstock’s new 3D generative AI that they have been working on for 16 months.
Read the ArticleWhat does spatial computing mean exactly?
DOP Ben Allan discusses shooting and viewing immersive video for the Apple Vision Pro.
Read the ArticleMachine learning at the node: iPad Pro + ML
Machine Learning and the outcome of WWDC 24 and the IPad Pro update
Read the ArticleInside Out 2: redefining the magic with new technology
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.
Read the ArticleCGI digital double acting at DI4D
DI4D extends the art of CGI digital humans.
Read the ArticleBest papers at CVPR: they are kind of fun!
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.
Read the ArticleNVIDIA’s JeDi: Joint-Image Diffusion models for fine-tuning generative AI
More control of text-to-image generative AI with consistency and around real-world objects from the CVPR conference.
Read the ArticleJason Zimmerman on the VFX of Star Trek Discovery & Strange New Worlds
We speak to the remarkable Jason Zimmerman about the remarkable VFX of Discovery and Strange New Worlds.
Read the ArticleShooting for the Apple Vision Pro: post-production part two
Part two of our look at filming and editing spatial video for the Apple Vision Pro.
Read the ArticleVFX Supervisor Chad Wanstreet: four Robert Downey Jr.s and fleeing Vietnam in The Sympathizer
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.
Read the ArticleAutodesk buys Wonder Dynamics
We talk exclusively to the founders of Wonder Dynamics about their sale to Autodesk, and what it means for users.
Read the ArticleDigital Domain unveils Masquerade3
Hanno Basse explains the new Digital Domain markerless Masquerade3 facial animation pipeline.
Read the ArticleProof share their postvis work on The Creator
The Creator was one of the most impressive VFX film of the last year, Proof have released with PreVis reel.
Read the ArticleAI: the battleground for Final Cut Pro vs. Premiere Pro vs. Resolve
Generative AI and machine learning are changing the editing landscape with all three major editing packages fighting it out with amazing new AI tools.
Read the Article1st SORA music video, How SORA is evolving & guessing possible pricing
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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