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.
Part 1: Rogue One shows its Force
Rogue One we explore previz, on-set and post-viz with The Third Floor and ILM.
HDR Light Studio 5.4 launches
A new version of HDR Light Studio is out and we find out how the commercials team at Framestore NY puts the software to use.
And then there were 10… VFX Oscar Bakeoff list set
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 89th Academy Awards®.
Face me part 2: make me an avatar from a selfie
In our second part on facial R&D, we focus on Loom.ai which just went public with their 3D animated face from a selfie. We test drive the first version of the system.
Face me part 1: photorealistic facial texture from a single still
The first in a series that looks at the latest in digital face technology. Starting with a textured 3D face from just one still.
Fantastical effects and how to create them
A Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them deep dive, plus our WIRED exclusive on Erumpant Mating Dances.
20 advance In VFX Oscar® race
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the list of twenty films in the running for the Visual Effects Oscar.