EPIC win: previs to final in five minutes

September 4, 2016

EPIC won the SIGGRAPH Best Real-Time Graphics and Interactivity award at Real-Time Live 2016 and now Ninja Theory has launched Senua Studio.

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Best perfume spot EVER

August 31, 2016

UPDATED: DD’s Janelle Croshaw helps Margaret Qualley nail it for Spike Jonze’s Kenzo World.

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Suicide Squad, vortical flows and fractal machines

August 29, 2016

Exclusive video and more from Suicide Squad, whose Enchantress is a sorceress only because her technology is so advanced, as we explore the fractal nature of that magic.

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Bigger than Ben Hur

August 29, 2016

We examine the CG horse pipeline at Mr X for the new Ben Hur Chariot race. (Exclusive BTS video)

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Canon 5D Mk IV dual raw pixel mode

August 24, 2016

The 5D Mk IV and its new Dual Pixel Raw Mode.

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12 Scientific & Technical Areas Under Investigation for Oscars®

August 22, 2016

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 12 distinct scientific and technical investigations have been launched for the 2016 Oscars®.

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VFX Union UK: Sausage Party & Nitrogen – an open letter

August 22, 2016

VFX Union UK has released an open letter concerning the labor issues on the film Sausage Party.

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The Union of VFX and directors

August 21, 2016

Florence Foster Jenkins is the latest in a line of multi-year, multi-film projects that Union VFX have done. We explore how they have built such a loyal fan base amongst some of the UK’s most prestigious directors.

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Stiller Luxo Jr. birthday message

August 17, 2016

The story of two robots reenacting the world’s most famous computer graphics short film.

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Who you gonna call? Call Illoura, MPC, SPI, & Zero VFX

August 10, 2016

Ghostbusters 2016. Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes, dead rising from the grave, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria and more…

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VIEW Conference 2016 initial lineup announced

August 8, 2016

More details have been announced regarding the 2016 installment of the outstanding VIEW conference, being held October 24th in Turin, Italy.

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SIGGRAPH: LAIKA, Marvel, shapes and more

July 27, 2016

Sessions included LAIKA’s Kubo and the Two Strings, Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War, a clever solution for shoulder animation in crowd simulations, and using words to match body shapes.

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SIGGRAPH VR: BMWs, a supermodel and a shaved Corvette

July 27, 2016

BMW’s 360 YouTube adrenalin-fueled motorsport interpretation of the famous ‘shell game’ + DD goes all in on VR content.

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Star Trek Beyond : inside the VFX of the Enterprise

July 27, 2016

Star Trek Beyond – our latest Design FX video with our media partners: WIRED.

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SIGGRAPH monday: NASA and beyond

July 26, 2016

NASA, Arnold for Maya, Massive and a look at the state of cloud rendering.

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SIGGRAPH Sunday: Tech Papers Fast Forward and more

July 26, 2016

Siggraph Sunday : The start of a week of hard core tech graphics geek out !

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SIGGRAPH Saturday: DigiPro 2016

July 25, 2016

Our extensive coverage of DigiPro : Production technical papers from major studios around the world.

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Open source deep comp extension (OpenDCX)

July 25, 2016

DreamWorks take their Deep Compositing extensions Open Source

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MAXON debuts Cinema 4D R18

July 25, 2016

At SIGGRAPH 2016, MAXON announced the release of Cinema 4D R18, coming in September. We take a look at the main new features.

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Vero, new cloud-based VFX budgeting & cost management

July 20, 2016

Thinkbox Software has teamed with VFX Producer Joyce Cox to develop Vero, a new cloud-based application that simplifies large scale VFX budgeting and bidding.

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Honda ‘news’ by Alt.vfx

July 20, 2016

A look at the latest Honda spot from Alt.vfx.

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68th Emmy nominations

July 14, 2016

Nominations for the 68th Emmy Awards were announced this morning, here are the visual effects categories.

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Kubo and the Two Strings: Rapid Prototyping evolves

July 13, 2016

We visit LAIKA to see how they are pushing their Sci-Tech winning Rapid Prototyping even further for their upcoming film, Kubo and the Two Strings.

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Tarzan creature & FX pipelines

July 11, 2016

Tarzan: King of the CG Jungle.

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Siggraph preview: face reconstruction from mono video

July 7, 2016

Automatic creation of a high-quality 3D face rig of an actor from just mono video data – or “you can never trust YouTube again”!

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CARA VR plugin for Nuke

July 6, 2016

The Foundry has released a powerful new CARA VR plugin for Nuke.

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Redshift releases version 2.0

July 4, 2016

A new version of the GPU renderer debuts with 3ds Max integration, improved SSS models, a new PBR-based Redshift material, and more.

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The mother of Independence Day resurgences

June 27, 2016

Our huge in depth look at Independence Day: Resurgence. UPDATED with our WIRED Design FX video

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One on one with Roland Emmerich

June 27, 2016

An fxinsider exclusive: our one on one with Roland Emmerich about his approach to vfx & Independence Day: Resurgence

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The shower scene from Central Intelligence

June 23, 2016

Behind-the-scenes video of how Weta swapped The Rock’s face with Vine Star Sione in Central Intelligence.

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