With a short schedule, the VFX crew on The Martian pulled out all stops, taking advantage of previs, techvis, simulcam, specialty NUKE setups, GoPros and more.

Complex multi-rig 360 shooting, tracking and comp made this Nike VR spot possible. Plus check out our exclusive VFX breakdown video.

‘Everest’ called for complicated filming in mountainous locations, and matching photoreal VFX.

a52 presses the accelerator in this retro car racing spot for Forza Motorsport 6.

Weta Digital run the Maze in The Scorch Trials for director Wes Ball. Plus The Third Floor’s previs.

Special effects supervisor and Legacy Effects co-founder Shane Mahan, presenting this week at Trojan Horse, delves into the practical and digital art behind his studio’s creations.

A preview of VIEW Conference and the stunning presentations planned at this Italian CG/VFX event.

We exclusively look at the concept art done by Weta Workshop for Fury Road. Exclusive video.

Much of the issue with VR is that the more dynamic head tracking struggles with live action – but audiences want to see people…

The new version of Massive is about to be released: we check out the new features with a set of short videos, including 20,000 agents in realtime on one PC!

The story behind making the big chase scenes in Guy Ritchie’s spy thriller The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

How you can still get a ticket to be part of the artist-driven Trojan Horse Was A Unicorn event.

Norwegian artist Alf Lovvold created this fictional trailer on a single workstation, with complicated CG models, foliage and action, all rendered on the GPU.

Path tracing, the trade show, ACES, convergence of games and film, state of the VFX industry and more from Day 3 at SIGGRAPH.

ILM’s 40th anniversary presentation, MPC and DNeg on some new tools and several facial capture and animation talks and papers.

We look at V-Ray in Nuke, talk to the developers and look at a cool Pub Idea users had to test it.

Our Day 1 wrap-up of SIGGRAPH and DigiPro – including Pixar talks and the Tech Papers Fast Forward.

How Digic Pictures made the recent launch trailer for CD Projekt RED’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

The tech behind the rendering improvements in MODO 901 from The Foundry.

A preview of a paper on skin microstructure deformation being presented at SIGGRAPH LA 2015.

In-depth breakdowns & behind the scenes on the biggest sequences in S5 of Game of Thrones.

Software and research in the area of performance driven facial animation.

How the stunning VFX of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation helped realize the film’s insane stunts.

A preview of SIGGRAPH 2015 in LA – all the best talks and presentations.

Make the voxels, move the voxels, light the voxels, destroy the voxels.

A case study on unifying Framestore’s TVC production.