When make-up and digital combine – before and after breakdowns from Mr. X’s ghostly visual effects for Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak.

We catch up with The Foundry to discuss the latest iteration of lighting tool Katana.

How Weta Workshop and Weta Digital combined to bring the characters of Krampus to life.

Johan Åberg has written a Maya to Combustion mel script, and he has posted a release candidate for the script.

Weta Digital VFX supe Martin Hill on bringing the late Paul Walker to the screen for Furious 7.

The splitscreens and face replacement VFX behind the Tom Hardy twin gangster pic, Legend.

EXCLUSIVE behind the scenes breakdowns on Pixar’s approach to the stunning environments in The Good Dinosaur.

Our in-depth look at the visual effects of the final Hunger Games film, Mockingjay – Part 2.

Spectre – breaking down five of the biggest effects, one a record breaking explosion. We talk directly to the VFX & SFX teams about brain drills, one-take explosions and filming with 2,500 extras.

Hand-drawn motion blur, specialized rigs, ghost limbs and a UV approach for facial features – just some of the solutions Blue Sky Studios came up with for bringing 2D to 3D for The Peanuts Movie.

The new Guitar Hero Live was filmed with a high speed Bolt Cinebot, while Framestore helped flesh out up to 12,000 frame effects-heavy scenes for the game.