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.

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).

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 is one of the shortlisted films in this year’s VFX bakeoff.

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 startup Arcturus received $11M Series A funding, including investments from Epic Games and Autodesk.

A look at the Virtual Production improvements in UE5.1

Congrats to all the Artists at SPI on 20 years of Spider-Man

Union discuss the VFX for the Sex Pistol’s bio-pic series Pistol.

Digital Domain plays ball with Joe Montana in 1984.

NVIDIA unveiled a no-code digital human chatbot link to Epic’s Metahumans at GTC.

Congrats to all the Emmy nominees and winners in 2022

We look at the Previs for The Fast and Furious: F9, The Fast Saga by Proof Inc

With the AWS Thinkbox products now free of charge, a look back at the 21 years of Deadline.

Netflix expands even further by buying Animal Logic.

Case study of Metahuman in Modern Archeology

The remarkable realism of Prehistoric Planet from Apple, BBC NHU, and MPC.

Something familiar that you have never seen before – in real-time: UE5 Fractals

Our sister site fxphd.com is a leading provider of online training courses for professionals in the visual effects and animation industry. Their courses are designed to help professionals stay up-to-date with the latest techniques and software, and to develop the skills they need to advance their careers.

Autodesk invests in RADiCAL and their AI-powered 3D Motion Capture System.

Digital Domain Gives a Face to AI with ‘Zoey,’ at the FMX Conference in Germany

NVIDIA works with 14 academic researchers on 16 SIGGRAPH ’22 papers

A special (technical) view of the new Stereo Avatar: The Way of Water

Given the volume of models for episodic work, Pixomondo finds great value in Kit-bashing.