The making of a killer Beautybot Claudia Schiffer in a digital jungle, for The Kingsman, Golden Circle.

One of the advances in RenderMan is the new version of Marschner Hair: We speak to Steve Marschner & Pixar about doing Feature FIlm Level CG Hair.

Saya and her ‘parents’ talk to fxguide.

We celebrate 25 Years of SPI with 5 VFX Supervisors.

Render Token offers to render your files and allow you to earn cryptocurrencies with your spare GPU cycles. We take a detailed look.

We talk to the team behind the miniatures and Previs of The Orville

We deep dive on a remarkable scanning and VR project that took almost 20 years.

One of the most impressive new tools in VR: Atom View and Nu Design

Adobe crosses faces with Content Aware Fill, their Character animator project and some new genius research for one of the best papers at this year’s SIGGRAPH.

MEETMIKE explores the future of Actors, Avatars and Agents. See what is creating the buzz here in LA (video)

We deep dive on the new PIXAR SSS models and explain the link to new Nuclear Physics research. Plus a list of every Pixar talk at SIGGRAPH.

Exclusive Siggraph Preview: Strange things are afoot at the DurrrBurger, …we talk to Directors and the team about their Fortnite UE4 short film. And do a deep dive in the Cool Tech of a real time rendering, animated short film.

Each day at SIGGRAPH Mike will meet industry legends from Pixar, Weta Digital, Magnopus, Disney Research, Epic Games and leading researchers from around the world in VR using new Digital Human Avatar technology.

We talk to Digital Domain and Sony Pictures Imageworks about their friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man and his two biggest battles.

The science and art of re-colouring photographs. A deep dive into this craft with some excellent examples.

We take a trip to all-female Island of Themyscira with DNeg and MPC for Wonder Woman.

We look at Dneg’s TV pipeline through the lens of The Young Pope.

Part 2 of our Guardians coverage: the fractal nature of Ego plus giving a Groot: the character animation.

Epic releases UE4 4.16 with some major VR advances.

We talk to MPC and Framestore about their Alien Covenant and creature work.

In the first part of our Guardians Coverage we look at Ego in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol.2 .

The Rokoko Professional MoCap suit starts shipping for $2500.

A look at some of the cool tech at FMX.

We speak extensively with Simon Robinson about what the heck NUKE is these days and how it is being used?

Relearning the language of film for a 270 degree special venue custom built cinema experience.

Cooke S7, Light Field Labs and Material X…

Mark Sagar’s latest advanced AI facial cognitive agent; Meet BabyX’s big sister Nadia, (who has just left home and is working in a Govt. job).

Virtual Production: Fox Film buys Technoprops. We exclusively talk to Glenn Derry + Senior Supervisors about the move.

We speak to Senior VFX Supervisor Stephen Rosenbaum and ILM’s Jeff White about Kong creature work. Including our latest Design FX WIRED video.