Between code and carnage: the VFX that humanized Murderbot at DNEG

July 21, 2025

Behind Murderbot’s thrilling action and alien chaos lies a meticulously crafted world where visual effects serve both the spectacle and give a bot real soul.

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Daredevil: Born Again: the art and craft of critical VFX collaboration

May 3, 2025

We talk to the VFX team of Daredevil: Born Again about the tight collaboration between the stunt, SFX, art and camera departments.

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NAB 25: A leaner show but with an AI innovation focus

April 6, 2025

The annual conference opens in Las Vegas with a focus on new tools in the era of AI.

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ILM, droids, miniatures and StageCraft – Oscar winner John Knoll discuss Skeleton Crew

April 1, 2025

The balance of practical and digital, including John Knoll’s top five production pitfalls of all time.

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New Apple Mac Studio is great for AI, but not the AI you’re thinking of

March 11, 2025

The new M3 Ultra Mac Studio running heavy duty machine learning with Topaz Video AI 6

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Building The Gorge: behind the VFX of Scott Derrickson’s sci-fi thriller

March 3, 2025

Behind the scenes of The Gorge with DNEG’s VFX supervisors Anelia Asparuhova and Sebastian von Overheidt as they reveal how they crafted the breathtaking environments, intense action, & explosive finale.

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Gladiator II: Mark Bakowski overall VFX Supervisor and Ridleygrams

January 10, 2025

Ridley Scott’s epic with 1,130 VFX shots. Exclusive new making of Gladiator IIvideo

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MPC: crafting Mufasa: The Lion King

January 9, 2025

For Mufasa: The Lion King, MPC delivered 1500 full-CG shots. Find out more with images and a VFX breakdown video.

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Framestore gives Deadpool the finger(s)

January 7, 2025

Framestore’s VFX in Deadpool & Wolverine delivers jaw-dropping surrealism and heartwarming humor, from face-melting powers to a scene-stealing ugly-yet-adorable dog.

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Hands-on with the URSA Cine 12K LF + URSA Cine Immersive

December 16, 2024

Ben Allan ACS CSI, test drives and reviews the URSA Cine 12K LF, which is also the base for the new URSA Cine Immersive. 

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Generative AI in media and entertainment

November 18, 2024

A field guide on how to approach generative AI with interviews from over 12 leading AI industry companies and VFX experts.

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The visual effects of Slow Horses

October 31, 2024

Union VFX’s Tim Barber discusses one of the great spy dramas currently on TV.

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Wonder Dynamics up the game with AI Wonder Animation

October 30, 2024

Wonder Dynamics expand to full 3D scene animation integration with AI

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Shutterstock generative AI 3D models

July 29, 2024

We talk to Dade Orgeron, about Shutterstock’s new 3D generative AI that they have been working on for 16 months.

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What does spatial computing mean exactly?

July 22, 2024

DOP Ben Allan discusses shooting and viewing immersive video for the Apple Vision Pro.

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D-ID agents informed by ChatGPT

June 26, 2024

Putting a face on a ChatGPT

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Inside Out 2: redefining the magic with new technology

June 21, 2024

The first Inside Out film was rendered with RenderMan REYES, but for Inside Out 2 Pixar had to replicate all all the magic with the new RenderMan RIS.

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Jason Zimmerman on the VFX of Star Trek Discovery & Strange New Worlds

June 4, 2024

We speak to the remarkable Jason Zimmerman about the remarkable VFX of Discovery and Strange New Worlds.

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Shooting for the Apple Vision Pro: post-production part two

May 31, 2024

Part two of our look at filming and editing spatial video for the Apple Vision Pro.

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Autodesk buys Wonder Dynamics

May 21, 2024

We talk exclusively to the founders of Wonder Dynamics about their sale to Autodesk, and what it means for users.

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1st SORA music video, How SORA is evolving & guessing possible pricing

May 8, 2024

We continue our coverage of talking to early SORA users, exploring SORA’s newest features, and hypotheses about its possible pricing.

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Shooting spatial video – why all the negativity? It’s great!

April 27, 2024

We test drive a massively wide range of options for filming spatial video for the Apple Vision Pro.

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Inside the (LED) bunker of Fallout

April 17, 2024

A deep dive inside the Fallout series virtual production work with Magnopus’ Ben Grossmann

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Actually using SORA

April 14, 2024

The exact current state of SORA with the team from Air Head or ‘How to tell a consistent story despite the slot machine nature of genAI.’

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In Concert: Black Pink and Doja Cat – In Your Face

January 30, 2024

The Diamond Bros have been doing VR concerts for years. Their latest are Black Pink in Korea and Doja Cat In Detroit.

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Should you update your Apple gear for pro work?

January 15, 2024

We road test the iPhone 15 Max and M3 Max MacBook Pro for professional work.

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The Meep may not inherit the Earth, thanks to Dr Who and Untold Studios

December 8, 2023

Untold Studios worked with Bad Wolf to help bring the BBC’s 60th Anniversary of Doctor Who to life, with a major focus on The Meep in the ep, ‘The Star Beast’.

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True cross-platform, immersive, open source connected spaces

October 4, 2023

Today the Web is a series of connected pages, tomorrow could be a series of Connected Spaces – thanks to Magnopus.

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The art of NeRFs, part two: guassian splats, RT NeRFs, stitching and adding stable diffusion into NeRFs

September 27, 2023

In part 2 of our Art of NeRFs, we explore 4 incredible applications and innovations in the world of NeRFs

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The art and craft of training data. Yes, training data

September 6, 2023

VFX uses Machine Learning tools and it is also increasingly being used to produce training data for ML solutions with sleuthing and alchemy.

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