First look: Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive test footage for Apple Vision Pro

Check out Apple Immersive Video in action with an exclusive download of the world’s first AVP footage shot on the camera.

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Exploring the new Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive camera

Exploring the pipeline for immersive storytelling with the camera system purpose-built to create video content for the Apple Vision Pro.

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Diffusing reality: how NVIDIA reimagined relighting

NVIDIA’s DiffusionRenderer redefines neural rendering by using AI to relight, edit materials, and insert objects into real-world videos with no 3D geometry needed.

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The Wheel of Time postviz reel from Proof

Proof Inc. reimagined post-visualization for Amazon’s The Wheel of Time, blurring the boundaries between previs, postvis, and final VFX.

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The making of Netflix’s Senna – Scanline

The ‘Making Of’ Scanline’s VFX work on “Senna,” the Netflix series that celebrates Ayrton Senna.

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Congratulations to the 2025 oscar winners

Congrats to all the artists on this year’s Oscar winning films.

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How generative AI is being used in VFX (VES Panel)

AI is already influencing VFX workflows, but how much of it is actually useful? What’s practical today, and what’s still evolving? The VES presents a panel on generative AI. We talk to VFX supervisor Jim Geduldick about what to expect.

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2025’s 14 Sci-Tech Academy Awards

Denoising and stabilising along with stunt fire gel and importantly captioning all honored in this year’s Sci-tech Awards

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Congrats and reactions to the 2025 Oscar Nominees

Congrats to all the Oscar Nominees

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BAFTA nominations have been announced

Congrats to all the Nominees +plus linked to interviews with each of the teams.

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VES 2025 Nominees

Congrats to the nominees in the 23rd Annual VES Awards in all 25 categories.

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The VFX of Alex Garland’s Civil War

Civil War was hailed as one of the year’s most startling and visceral films, Framestore was an early collaborator delivering over a 1,000 shots.

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Agatha All Along with Digital Domain

Agatha All Along goes a long way with old-school digital comping, blue screen, and set extensions.

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Adele’s world record LED concert experience

We discuss how Disguise provided the World record breakingly large LED screen for Adele in Munich.

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Cinesite for a more perfect (The) Union

Cinesite’s realistic action VFX work on Netflix’s The Union.

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Google’s NotebookLM: everyone has a podcast about AI, even AI itself

Another incredible jump in large language models (LLM) and generative AI (GenAI) but how does it affect visual effects (vfx)?

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Q&A with DNEG on the environment work in Time Bandits

Jelmer Boskma, the VFX Supervisor at DNEG discusses the environment work in Apple TV+: Time Bandits

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The 11 Scientific and Technical Areas for 2024 Sci-Tech Consideration

Each year the Sci-Tech Committee signals what they are investigating for the next year’s Awards. Here are this year’s 11 areas.

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DigiPro 2024: conference recap

A look back at DigiPro 2024, an outstanding conference held the Saturday before the SIGGRAPH conference begins.

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Machine learning at the node: iPad Pro + ML

Machine Learning and the outcome of WWDC 24 and the IPad Pro update

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CGI digital double acting at DI4D

DI4D extends the art of CGI digital humans.

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Best papers at CVPR: they are kind of fun!

Want to see what will be in AI aps in the future? We have a look at the best research papers released today at the CVPR conference.

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NVIDIA’s JeDi: Joint-Image Diffusion models for fine-tuning generative AI

More control of text-to-image generative AI with consistency and around real-world objects from the CVPR conference.

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VFX Supervisor Chad Wanstreet: four Robert Downey Jr.s and fleeing Vietnam in The Sympathizer

HBO’s The Sympathizer: 70’s drama comedy with not one but four Robert Downey Jr.s! We look at the visual effects it took to bring the four to the screen and more.

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