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Guardians Vol 3: How They Did That Incredible Hallway Shot

We talk to Wētā FX’s Guy Williams and deep dive into that Hallyway one-shot in Guardians Vol3.

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.

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fxpodcast #353: Stephane Ceretti – VFX Supervisor, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

We talk to Stephane Ceretti, Production VFX Supervisor of the brilliant Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3.

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VFXShow 268: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3

The team drop the needle on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3

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A Possible Future of Wide Scale Volumetric: NeRFs, AI and Experiencials

We answer a much asked question: What is the next big thing with AI in media and entertainment?

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Picard : Star Trek at its VFX finest

Picard’s VFX honors both the tradition and inspiration of decades of Trek VFX.

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VFXShow 268: AI for VFX Special Ep.

In this Special Ep, the team explores the incredible advances happening in AI and their implications for VFX Artists.

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What a week in 3D: RenderMan, Lightwave, and Clarisse

RenderMan turns 25, Lightwave Moves, and Clarisse Dies

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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.

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fxpodcast #347 Emancipation, in depth with Rob Legato.

Three-time Oscar Winner Rob Legato joins us to do a deep dive into Emancipation, a true story of slavery and survival.

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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.

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fxpodcast #346 Smile

We talk to SMILE Director Parker Finn, and VFX supervisors Vico Sharabani and Yuval Levy of The Artery in NYC.

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Exclusive: Joe Letteri Discusses Wētā FX’s new Facial Pipeline on Avatar 2

Senior VFX Supervisor Joe Letteri discusses in depth, Wētā FX’s new APFS pipeline – the new face system in Avatar: The Way of Water, along with Prof. Karan Singh.

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VFXShow 265: Andor

In this episode we explore the newest show in Star Wars’ galaxy, focusing on Cassian’s journey in Andor.

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fxpodcast #345 ILM makes Wakanda Forever

ILM discusses their extensive VFX work on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

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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.

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fxpodcast #344 Black Adam with Digital Domain

We speak Black Adam, with Digital Domain’s VFX supervisor Nikos Kalaitzidis

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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.

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UE5.1 adds M&E tools to an impressive UE5 release

A look at the Virtual Production improvements in UE5.1

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Twenty Years of Spider-Man at Sony Pictures Imageworks

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

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fxpodcast #343 Real-time Vantage Ray Tracing with Chris Nichols

A preview of Real-time Ray Tracing that Chris Nichols will present at RTC 2022

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fxpodcast #342 Otoy and Treking towards a real Holodeck

OTOY is pushing the boundaries of Light Field display and asset generation in cooperation with The Roddenberry Estate; Yes, they’re making a Holodeck!

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