Insurgent: in the lab with Animal Logic
Animal Logic breaks down their holographic effects for the film Insurgent, just out on DVD and download.
How one VFX artist made these 3 minutes of madness
Norwegian artist Alf Lovvold created this fictional trailer on a single workstation, with complicated CG models, foliage and action, all rendered on the GPU.
fxinsider: Previs’ing Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
In this special fxinsider piece, The Third Floor London discusses the previs behind Rogue Nation.
SIGGRAPH Day 3 and out
Path tracing, the trade show, ACES, convergence of games and film, state of the VFX industry and more from Day 3 at SIGGRAPH.
SIGGRAPH Day 2: ILM and more
ILM’s 40th anniversary presentation, MPC and DNeg on some new tools and several facial capture and animation talks and papers.
NUKE and V-Ray
We look at V-Ray in Nuke, talk to the developers and look at a cool Pub Idea users had to test it.
The VFX of China’s monster hit Monster Hunt
Watch how Base FX made the cute and cuddly and sometimes crazy creatures for the Chinese hit film Monster Hunt.
SIGGRAPH Day 1 (and DigiPro)
Our Day 1 wrap-up of SIGGRAPH and DigiPro – including Pixar talks and the Tech Papers Fast Forward.
Behind the scenes of Digic’s Witcher 3 cinematic
How Digic Pictures made the recent launch trailer for CD Projekt RED’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
Fantastic five
The VFX behind the five key characters of the Fantastic Four reboot, plus a look at the previs.
MAXON reveals upcoming Cinema 4D R17
Maxon announced Cinema 4D Release 17, with an anticipated release sometime in September. The release contains Houdini Engine Integration as well as a host of new features and improvements. Click through to check out the press release.
SIGGRAPH technical papers highlight
A preview of a paper on skin microstructure deformation being presented at SIGGRAPH LA 2015.
Game of Thrones’ fifth season of extraordinary effects
In-depth breakdowns & behind the scenes on the biggest sequences in S5 of Game of Thrones.
Performance driven facial animation
Software and research in the area of performance driven facial animation.
the vfx show #201: Ant-Man
Mike Seymour, Matt D. Leonard and Jason Diamond discuss the story and visual effects in the latest Marvel Film, Ant-Man.
Hold on! The VFX of Rogue Nation
How the stunning VFX of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation helped realize the film’s insane stunts.
SIGGRAPH 2015 – what not to miss
A preview of SIGGRAPH 2015 in LA – all the best talks and presentations.
