A Possible Future of Wide Scale Volumetric: NeRFs, AI and Experiencials
We answer a much asked question: What is the next big thing with AI in media and entertainment?
Picard : Star Trek at its VFX finest
Picard’s VFX honors both the tradition and inspiration of decades of Trek VFX.
What a week in 3D: RenderMan, Lightwave, and Clarisse
RenderMan turns 25, Lightwave Moves, and Clarisse Dies
Skinning the onion with DNEG’s VFX supervisors on Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
We talk to Sameer Malik, VFX Supervisor, DNEG, and Philipp Wolf, Executive Producer, about The Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
Union’s VFX for Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin
Union’s VFX work on The Banshees of Inisherin
Virtual influences and digital humans at scale: Isaac Bratzel
We talk to Isaac Bratzel about his new Digital Human company: Avataros
And I never said a word…
We’ve been working on more (fun) machine learning demos. Respeecher and Pinscreen join us to demonstrate advanced AI Facial Re-enactment.
Generative AI fashion videos
London College of Fashion and Framestore’s Johannes Saam discuss how to make generative fashion AI videos
Meta Human Animator
MetaHuman Animator is announced along with UE for Fortnight and much more as part of the ’23 State of Unreal keynote at GDC
GTC: Shutterstock teams with NVIDIA to build AI models for generative 3D
NVIDIA joins with Shutterstock for generative 3D
And the winners are …
Congrats to all the teams that worked on the Oscar VFX films this year.
Elvis is in the (VFX) House
Fin Design+ Effects discusses their work on the multi-oscar nominated film Elvis.
Flying Top Gun: Maverick with Ryan Tudhope
A Deep Dive with Oscar Nominated Ryan Tudhope, the Visual Effects Supervisor on Top Gun: Maverick.
Autodesk’s open sourcing of RV
Autodesk and Shotgrid discuss the move to make RV Open Source
Wētā’s having a great year with the 95th Oscar Nominations
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.
Congrats to the nominees for 21st annual VES Awards
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).
I wanna dance with (the volumetric capture of) somebody
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.
All Quiet on the Western Front VFX
All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the shortlisted films in this year’s VFX bakeoff.
Exclusive: Joe Letteri discusses Wētā FX’s new facial pipeline on Avatar 2
Senior VFX Supervisor Joe Letteri discusses in depth, Wētā FX’s new APFS pipeline – the new face system in Avatar: The Way of Water, along with Prof. Karan Singh.
Invisible effects of living in the WestWorld
WestWorld aimed to do as much work as they could in camera, but they still relied on a host of invisible effects work by FutureWorks.
Volumetric team Arcturus expands with help from Epic and Autodeck
Volumetric startup Arcturus received $11M Series A funding, including investments from Epic Games and Autodesk.
UE5.1 adds M&E tools to an impressive UE5 release
A look at the Virtual Production improvements in UE5.1
Twenty years of Spider-Man at Sony Pictures Imageworks
Congrats to all the Artists at SPI on 20 years of Spider-Man
She-Hulk: Wētā’s Shade of Green
We sit down with Wētā FX to discuss the character animation of She-Hulk with VFX Supervisor Guy Williams and Animation Director Sidney Kombo-Kintombo
Why the Campanile movie, 25 years on, is still so important
Following his Lifetime Achievement Emmy, Paul Debevec looks back 25 years to his original Campanile Movie.
Never mind the chaos, here’s Danny Boyle’s Pistol
Union discuss the VFX for the Sex Pistol’s bio-pic series Pistol.
NVIDIA ACE enables easier interactive avatars
NVIDIA unveiled a no-code digital human chatbot link to Epic’s Metahumans at GTC.
The virtual production behind the soccer TVC for Caledon Football Club
We explore the technical issues in this advanced Virtual Production with film makers and VP experts.
