The Batman Movie: Keeping it real
The Batman Movie with exclusive looks at the AL workflow.
Gene Splicer From 3lateral & ILM Rogue One on UE4
A deep dive into an amazing technology demo at GDC – Gene Splicer, from Vladimir Mastilovic from 3Lateral.
The Mill’s incredible Blackbird at GDC : The future of virtual production
Epic games and The Mill redefine Virtual Production at GDC 2017
Freakonomics podcast looks at the VFX industry
The latest Freakonomics Radio episode is “No Hollywood Ending for the Visual-Effects Industry” Our Mike Seymour is a part of the episode.
New business of VFX documentary: Hollywood’s Greatest Trick
A new documentary aims to raise awareness of the VFX industry’s artist turmoils with the mass market.
The Jungle Book : MPC ‘Naturalistic Effects’ VFX breakdown
MPC ‘Naturalistic Effects’ VFX breakdown and VFX Sup. and Oscar Winner Rob Legato.
Doctor Strange: ILM making of clip
Watch ILM’s behind the scenes making of Doctor Strange.
Deepwater Horizon: ILM making of clip
Watch ILM’s behind the scenes making of Deepwater Horizon.
Weta Digital’s FACETS honoured at the Sci-tech Awards
The Weta Digital Sci-tech award winning FACETS facial performance capture system.
BAFTA winners
Jungle Book wins the EE British Academy Film Awards for Special Visual Effects, Kubo wins for Animated Film.
a52 and director Angus Wall go back to high school at the Super Bowl
The curious case of yearbooks for a52 and Honda, as well as some of our Super Bowl favorites.
Avatars and Agents: BabyX
We explore a detailed technical look at “Creating Connection with Autonomous Facial Animation” and BabyX
Part 3: Rogue One, ILM’s Digital Humans Sci-Tech Award winning pipeline
We cover the digital human pipeline, including the Sci-Tech winning tools that ILM needed to develop.
V-Ray past and future with Vlado Koylazov
We explore noise, samples, render times past and future in V-Ray with Vlado Koylazov (plus bonus EGSR preview)
A Monster Calls : MPC’s Character work
A look at MPC developed complex facial and character tools to bring a monster to life for ‘A Monster Calls’
Face me part 3: high end faces R&D from Disney Research
We look at some of the exceptional industry focused research being published by Disney Research Zurich.
Oscars® Nominees announced
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the films nominated for an Oscar® for the 89th Academy Awards®.
BAFTA Nominated Under the Shadow – OutpostVFX
We look at the vfx in the UK submission for the Best Foreign Language Film, with effects by Outpost VFX. We also examine the film from an Iranian perspective.
The tech of PIXAR part 2: Finding Dory – making waves
In the run up to the Oscar Animated Feature Film nominations, we invited guest writer Leif Pedersen to deep dive into the tech of Pixar’s Finding Dory.
The tech of PIXAR part 1: Piper – daring to be different
In the run up to the Oscar Short film nominations, we invited guest writer Leif Pedersen to deep dive into the tech of Pixar’s Piper.
Adobe’s Project Felix ships, complete with V-Ray
The simple new Adobe 3D Project Felix with V-Ray
BAFTA nominations announced
Nominations for the 2017 EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) awards
The 2017 Sci-tech Oscars
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced 18 scientific and technical achievements represented by 34 individual award recipients, as well as five organizations, will be honored with Scientific and Technical Awards.
Part 2: Rogue One character animation
An in-depth look at K-2SO with ILM’s Hal Hickel. We explore how he avoided looking like Jar Jar, how he was filmed, and how the skill of the animators made him come to life.