How they did that brilliant women’s football commercial

August 8, 2023

Nicolas Vogel, Flame artist & VFX Supervisor at Prodigious in France headed the Orange – la Compil des Bleues TV commercial which has gone viral the world over.

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Framestore’s Black Mirror ‘Mazey Day’ Frenzy

July 21, 2023

Frametore’s Black Mirror Werewolf Transformation.

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Congratulations to the VFX Emmy nominees

July 12, 2023

Congrats to all the Emmy Nominations for 2023.

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Union power (the VFX behind The Power)

July 12, 2023

We speak to Union VFX in the UK about The Power

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AI aided facial animation for Call of Duty Modern Warfare II

July 6, 2023

DI4D + Infinity Ward delivered the facial animation for Call of Duty Modern Warfare II. They processed over 4 hours of facial performance data with a new AI pipeline.

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Guardians Vol3: How they delivered those brilliant CG character performances

July 3, 2023

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 will be remembered for having some of the finest character animation work yet seen in the Marvel Universe.

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SwitchLight: your AI light switch

June 22, 2023

SwitchLight is a new AI tool that promises to radically change relighting actor. (Including exclusive first look at moving footage)

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Apple M2 Studio learns Nuke machine learning

June 14, 2023

The new Nuke with Apple Silicon native CopyCat shows why the new Apple M2 Ultra is a great machine learning VFX tool.

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Cocaine Bear postvis with Halon Entertainment co-founder Brad Alexander

June 14, 2023

Halon’s Postviz reel for Cocaine Bear.

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Guardians Vol 3: how they did that incredible hallway shot

June 2, 2023

We talk to Wētā FX’s Guy Williams and deep dive into that Hallyway one-shot in Guardians Vol3.

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Neural surface reconstruction from a phone with Neuralangelo

June 1, 2023

Neuralangelo creates dense scene of objects and very large-scale indoor/outdoor scenes with high detail, from a normal video.

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A Possible Future of Wide Scale Volumetric: NeRFs, AI and Experiencials

May 15, 2023

We answer a much asked question: What is the next big thing with AI in media and entertainment?

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Picard : Star Trek at its VFX finest

May 5, 2023

Picard’s VFX honors both the tradition and inspiration of decades of Trek VFX.

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What a week in 3D: RenderMan, Lightwave, and Clarisse

April 28, 2023

RenderMan turns 25, Lightwave Moves, and Clarisse Dies

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Skinning the onion with DNEG’s VFX supervisors on Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

April 23, 2023

We talk to Sameer Malik, VFX Supervisor, DNEG, and Philipp Wolf, Executive Producer, about The Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

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Union’s VFX for Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin

April 18, 2023

Union’s VFX work on The Banshees of Inisherin

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Virtual influences and digital humans at scale: Isaac Bratzel

April 3, 2023

We talk to Isaac Bratzel about his new Digital Human company: Avataros

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And I never said a word…

March 31, 2023

We’ve been working on more (fun) machine learning demos. Respeecher and Pinscreen join us to demonstrate advanced AI Facial Re-enactment.

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Generative AI fashion videos

March 23, 2023

London College of Fashion and Framestore’s Johannes Saam discuss how to make generative fashion AI videos

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Meta Human Animator

March 23, 2023

MetaHuman Animator is announced along with UE for Fortnight and much more as part of the ’23 State of Unreal keynote at GDC

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GTC: Shutterstock teams with NVIDIA to build AI models for generative 3D

March 22, 2023

NVIDIA joins with Shutterstock for generative 3D

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And the winners are …

March 12, 2023

Congrats to all the teams that worked on the Oscar VFX films this year.

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Elvis is in the (VFX) House

March 9, 2023

Fin Design+ Effects discusses their work on the multi-oscar nominated film Elvis.

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Congrats to the VES winners 2023

February 16, 2023

All the winners of the 2023 VES awards

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Flying Top Gun: Maverick with Ryan Tudhope

February 14, 2023

A Deep Dive with Oscar Nominated Ryan Tudhope, the Visual Effects Supervisor on Top Gun: Maverick.

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Autodesk’s open sourcing of RV

January 25, 2023

Autodesk and Shotgrid discuss the move to make RV Open Source

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Wētā’s having a great year with the 95th Oscar Nominations

January 24, 2023

Wētā’s having a great year with 6 of the 20 nominees over 3 films. We speak to Wētā Visual Effects Supervisors from all 3 films.

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Congrats to the nominees for 21st annual VES Awards

January 17, 2023

Nominees in 25 categories for this year’s VES awards were selected by VES members at 27 in-person and virtual nomination events conducted worldwide last weekend (the event unfortunately overlapped with the Oscar Bake-off).

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I wanna dance with (the volumetric capture of) somebody

January 14, 2023

In the new Whitney Houston Bio-pic, the film’s crowds were made with volumetric capture – a first for this approach at this scale. We talk with Zero VFX’s Brian Drewes.

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All Quiet on the Western Front VFX

January 4, 2023

All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the shortlisted films in this year’s VFX bakeoff.

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