Immersive drama: more than VR — more than film
Closer to reality than virtual: The Dobos Connection explores how Apple Immersive Video and the Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive are creating a new cinematic language beyond both film and VR.
Judged by AI: 90 minutes to prove innocence: the VFX of Mercy
How do you visualize an AI judge, holographic forensics, and city-wide destruction in 90 minutes? We go behind the VFX of Mercy with DNEG.
Marty Supreme: Eran Dinur on invisible VFX and both sport and period authenticity
How invisible VFX and obsessive period detail to turned Timothée Chalamet into a table-tennis hero in the Oscar nominated Marty Supreme
From capture to compute: the technology powering Avatar: Fire and Ash
This is what it takes to engineer cinema at scale. With Wētā FX VFX Supervisor Eric Saindon and Senior Animation Supervisor Dan Barrett.
The visual effects of 28 Years Later: Union VFX’s technical approach
In 28 Years Later, kinetic camerawork meets Union VFX’s seamless craft and story-driven effects.
Between code and carnage: the VFX that humanized Murderbot at DNEG
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.
Daredevil: Born Again: the art and craft of critical VFX collaboration
We talk to the VFX team of Daredevil: Born Again about the tight collaboration between the stunt, SFX, art and camera departments.
NAB 25: A leaner show but with an AI innovation focus
The annual conference opens in Las Vegas with a focus on new tools in the era of AI.
ILM, droids, miniatures and StageCraft – Oscar winner John Knoll discuss Skeleton Crew
The balance of practical and digital, including John Knoll’s top five production pitfalls of all time.
New Apple Mac Studio is great for AI, but not the AI you’re thinking of
The new M3 Ultra Mac Studio running heavy duty machine learning with Topaz Video AI 6
Building The Gorge: behind the VFX of Scott Derrickson’s sci-fi thriller
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.
Gladiator II: Mark Bakowski overall VFX Supervisor and Ridleygrams
Ridley Scott’s epic with 1,130 VFX shots. Exclusive new making of Gladiator IIvideo
MPC: crafting Mufasa: The Lion King
For Mufasa: The Lion King, MPC delivered 1500 full-CG shots. Find out more with images and a VFX breakdown video.
Framestore gives Deadpool the finger(s)
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.
Hands-on with the URSA Cine 12K LF + URSA Cine Immersive
Ben Allan ACS CSI, test drives and reviews the URSA Cine 12K LF, which is also the base for the new URSA Cine Immersive.
Generative AI in media and entertainment
A field guide on how to approach generative AI with interviews from over 12 leading AI industry companies and VFX experts.
The visual effects of Slow Horses
Union VFX’s Tim Barber discusses one of the great spy dramas currently on TV.
Wonder Dynamics up the game with AI Wonder Animation
Wonder Dynamics expand to full 3D scene animation integration with AI
Shutterstock generative AI 3D models
We talk to Dade Orgeron, about Shutterstock’s new 3D generative AI that they have been working on for 16 months.
What does spatial computing mean exactly?
DOP Ben Allan discusses shooting and viewing immersive video for the Apple Vision Pro.
Inside Out 2: redefining the magic with new technology
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.
Jason Zimmerman on the VFX of Star Trek Discovery & Strange New Worlds
We speak to the remarkable Jason Zimmerman about the remarkable VFX of Discovery and Strange New Worlds.
Shooting for the Apple Vision Pro: post-production part two
Part two of our look at filming and editing spatial video for the Apple Vision Pro.
Autodesk buys Wonder Dynamics
We talk exclusively to the founders of Wonder Dynamics about their sale to Autodesk, and what it means for users.
1st SORA music video, How SORA is evolving & guessing possible pricing
We continue our coverage of talking to early SORA users, exploring SORA’s newest features, and hypotheses about its possible pricing.
Shooting spatial video – why all the negativity? It’s great!
We test drive a massively wide range of options for filming spatial video for the Apple Vision Pro.
Inside the (LED) bunker of Fallout
A deep dive inside the Fallout series virtual production work with Magnopus’ Ben Grossmann
Actually using SORA
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.’
In Concert: Black Pink and Doja Cat – In Your Face
The Diamond Bros have been doing VR concerts for years. Their latest are Black Pink in Korea and Doja Cat In Detroit.