How generative AI is being used in VFX (VES Panel)
AI is already influencing VFX workflows, but how much of it is actually useful? What’s practical today, and what’s still evolving? The VES presents a panel on generative AI. We talk to VFX supervisor Jim Geduldick about what to expect.
2025’s 14 Sci-Tech Academy Awards
Denoising and stabilising along with stunt fire gel and importantly captioning all honored in this year’s Sci-tech Awards
BAFTA nominations have been announced
Congrats to all the Nominees +plus linked to interviews with each of the teams.
VES 2025 Nominees
Congrats to the nominees in the 23rd Annual VES Awards in all 25 categories.
Gladiator II: Mark Bakowski overall VFX Supervisor and Ridleygrams
Ridley Scott’s epic with 1,130 VFX shots. Exclusive new making of Gladiator IIvideo
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.
MPC: 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.
Framestore 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.
Hands-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.
Generative 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.
Agatha All Along with Digital Domain
Agatha All Along goes a long way with old-school digital comping, blue screen, and set extensions.
Adele’s world record LED concert experience
We discuss how Disguise provided the World record breakingly large LED screen for Adele in Munich.
The visual effects of Slow Horses
Union VFX’s Tim Barber discusses one of the great spy dramas currently on TV.
Wonder Dynamics up the game with AI Wonder Animation
Wonder Dynamics expand to full 3D scene animation integration with AI
Cinesite for a more perfect (The) Union
Cinesite’s realistic action VFX work on Netflix’s The Union.
Google’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)?
Q&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
The 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.
DigiPro 2024: conference recap
A look back at DigiPro 2024, an outstanding conference held the Saturday before the SIGGRAPH conference begins.
Shutterstock 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.
What does spatial computing mean exactly?
DOP Ben Allan discusses shooting and viewing immersive video for the Apple Vision Pro.
Machine learning at the node: iPad Pro + ML
Machine Learning and the outcome of WWDC 24 and the IPad Pro update
Inside 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.
Best 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.
NVIDIA’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.
Jason 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.
Shooting 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.