Citadel VFX at DNEG
Dan Baldwin led DNEG’s team as they build mountains, blow up trains, and race down ski slopes in The Citadel.
Framestore’s Black Mirror ‘Mazey Day’ Frenzy
Frametore’s Black Mirror Werewolf Transformation.
SwitchLight: your AI light switch
SwitchLight is a new AI tool that promises to radically change relighting actor. (Including exclusive first look at moving footage)
Cocaine Bear postvis with Halon Entertainment co-founder Brad Alexander
Halon’s Postviz reel for Cocaine Bear.
Neural surface reconstruction from a phone with Neuralangelo
Neuralangelo creates dense scene of objects and very large-scale indoor/outdoor scenes with high detail, from a normal video.
Skinning the onion with DNEG’s VFX supervisors on Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
We talk to Sameer Malik, VFX Supervisor, DNEG, and Philipp Wolf, Executive Producer, about The Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
Union’s VFX for Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin
Union’s VFX work on The Banshees of Inisherin
And I never said a word…
We’ve been working on more (fun) machine learning demos. Respeecher and Pinscreen join us to demonstrate advanced AI Facial Re-enactment.
Meta Human Animator
MetaHuman Animator is announced along with UE for Fortnight and much more as part of the ’23 State of Unreal keynote at GDC
GTC: Shutterstock teams with NVIDIA to build AI models for generative 3D
NVIDIA joins with Shutterstock for generative 3D
And the winners are …
Congrats to all the teams that worked on the Oscar VFX films this year.
Elvis is in the (VFX) House
Fin Design+ Effects discusses their work on the multi-oscar nominated film Elvis.
Autodesk’s open sourcing of RV
Autodesk and Shotgrid discuss the move to make RV Open Source
Wētā’s having a great year with the 95th Oscar Nominations
Wētā’s having a great year with 6 of the 20 nominees over 3 films. We speak to Wētā Visual Effects Supervisors from all 3 films.
Congrats to the nominees for 21st annual VES Awards
Nominees in 25 categories for this year’s VES awards were selected by VES members at 27 in-person and virtual nomination events conducted worldwide last weekend (the event unfortunately overlapped with the Oscar Bake-off).
I wanna dance with (the volumetric capture of) somebody
In the new Whitney Houston Bio-pic, the film’s crowds were made with volumetric capture – a first for this approach at this scale. We talk with Zero VFX’s Brian Drewes.
All Quiet on the Western Front VFX
All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the shortlisted films in this year’s VFX bakeoff.
Invisible effects of living in the WestWorld
WestWorld aimed to do as much work as they could in camera, but they still relied on a host of invisible effects work by FutureWorks.
Volumetric team Arcturus expands with help from Epic and Autodeck
Volumetric startup Arcturus received $11M Series A funding, including investments from Epic Games and Autodesk.
UE5.1 adds M&E tools to an impressive UE5 release
A look at the Virtual Production improvements in UE5.1
Twenty years of Spider-Man at Sony Pictures Imageworks
Congrats to all the Artists at SPI on 20 years of Spider-Man
Never mind the chaos, here’s Danny Boyle’s Pistol
Union discuss the VFX for the Sex Pistol’s bio-pic series Pistol.
