VES 2025 Nominees
Congrats to the nominees in the 23rd Annual VES Awards in all 25 categories.
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.
Agatha All Along with Digital Domain
Agatha All Along goes a long way with old-school digital comping, blue screen, and set extensions.
Adele’s world record LED concert experience
We discuss how Disguise provided the World record breakingly large LED screen for Adele in Munich.
Cinesite for a more perfect (The) Union
Cinesite’s realistic action VFX work on Netflix’s The Union.
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)?
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
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.
DigiPro 2024: conference recap
A look back at DigiPro 2024, an outstanding conference held the Saturday before the SIGGRAPH conference begins.
Machine learning at the node: iPad Pro + ML
Machine Learning and the outcome of WWDC 24 and the IPad Pro update
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.
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.
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.
Digital Domain unveils Masquerade3
Hanno Basse explains the new Digital Domain markerless Masquerade3 facial animation pipeline.
Proof share their postvis work on The Creator
The Creator was one of the most impressive VFX film of the last year, Proof have released with PreVis reel.
AI: the battleground for Final Cut Pro vs. Premiere Pro vs. Resolve
Generative AI and machine learning are changing the editing landscape with all three major editing packages fighting it out with amazing new AI tools.
UE 5.4 released with improved ICVFX and Android VCam
UE 5.4 released with some great improvements for ICVFX, rendering and Android VCam
Project Arena: Chaos LED volumes
Project Arena is a real-time ray tracing solution for virtual production from Chaos.
Gucci on the Apple Vision Pro and why it matters
Finally cool innovative film makers make engaging films taking advantage of the Apple Vision Pro.
Epic MetaHuman comes to UEFN
Epic launch a host of new tools and advances to Metahuman’s at GDC 2024
Omniverse streaming into the Apple Vision Pro with new NVIDIA AR XR
We spoke to Damian Fulmer at Katana about how the developed the car app that even fooled NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang
NVIDIA unlocks even more 3D Generative AI at GTC
A lot of new Generative AI tool were announced today as part of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s extensive 2-hour keynote.