First look: Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive test footage for Apple Vision Pro

July 24, 2025

Check out Apple Immersive Video in action with an exclusive download of the world’s first AVP footage shot on the camera.

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Exploring the new Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive camera

July 8, 2025

Exploring the pipeline for immersive storytelling with the camera system purpose-built to create video content for the Apple Vision Pro.

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Diffusing reality: how NVIDIA reimagined relighting

June 17, 2025

NVIDIA’s DiffusionRenderer redefines neural rendering by using AI to relight, edit materials, and insert objects into real-world videos with no 3D geometry needed.

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The Wheel of Time postviz reel from Proof

June 3, 2025

Proof Inc. reimagined post-visualization for Amazon’s The Wheel of Time, blurring the boundaries between previs, postvis, and final VFX.

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The making of Netflix’s Senna – Scanline

March 24, 2025

The ‘Making Of’ Scanline’s VFX work on “Senna,” the Netflix series that celebrates Ayrton Senna.

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Congratulations to the 2025 oscar winners

March 2, 2025

Congrats to all the artists on this year’s Oscar winning films.

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How generative AI is being used in VFX (VES Panel)

February 20, 2025

AI is already influencing VFX workflows, but how much of it is actually useful? What’s practical today, and what’s still evolving? The VES presents a panel on generative AI. We talk to VFX supervisor Jim Geduldick about what to expect.

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2025’s 14 Sci-Tech Academy Awards

January 27, 2025

Denoising and stabilising along with stunt fire gel and importantly captioning all honored in this year’s Sci-tech Awards

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Congrats and reactions to the 2025 Oscar Nominees

January 23, 2025

Congrats to all the Oscar Nominees

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BAFTA nominations have been announced

January 15, 2025

Congrats to all the Nominees +plus linked to interviews with each of the teams.

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VES 2025 Nominees

January 14, 2025

Congrats to the nominees in the 23rd Annual VES Awards in all 25 categories.

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The VFX of Alex Garland’s Civil War

January 10, 2025

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.

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Agatha All Along with Digital Domain

November 13, 2024

Agatha All Along goes a long way with old-school digital comping, blue screen, and set extensions.

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Adele’s world record LED concert experience

November 12, 2024

We discuss how Disguise provided the World record breakingly large LED screen for Adele in Munich.

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Cinesite for a more perfect (The) Union

October 29, 2024

Cinesite’s realistic action VFX work on Netflix’s The Union.

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Google’s NotebookLM: everyone has a podcast about AI, even AI itself

September 20, 2024

Another incredible jump in large language models (LLM) and generative AI (GenAI) but how does it affect visual effects (vfx)?

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Q&A with DNEG on the environment work in Time Bandits

September 3, 2024

Jelmer Boskma, the VFX Supervisor at DNEG discusses the environment work in Apple TV+: Time Bandits

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The 11 Scientific and Technical Areas for 2024 Sci-Tech Consideration

August 21, 2024

Each year the Sci-Tech Committee signals what they are investigating for the next year’s Awards. Here are this year’s 11 areas.

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DigiPro 2024: conference recap

August 19, 2024

A look back at DigiPro 2024, an outstanding conference held the Saturday before the SIGGRAPH conference begins.

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Machine learning at the node: iPad Pro + ML

June 25, 2024

Machine Learning and the outcome of WWDC 24 and the IPad Pro update

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CGI digital double acting at DI4D

June 20, 2024

DI4D extends the art of CGI digital humans.

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Best papers at CVPR: they are kind of fun!

June 19, 2024

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.

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NVIDIA’s JeDi: Joint-Image Diffusion models for fine-tuning generative AI

June 19, 2024

More control of text-to-image generative AI with consistency and around real-world objects from the CVPR conference.

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VFX Supervisor Chad Wanstreet: four Robert Downey Jr.s and fleeing Vietnam in The Sympathizer

May 31, 2024

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.

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Digital Domain unveils Masquerade3

May 18, 2024

Hanno Basse explains the new Digital Domain markerless Masquerade3 facial animation pipeline.

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Proof share their postvis work on The Creator

May 18, 2024

The Creator was one of the most impressive VFX film of the last year, Proof have released with PreVis reel.

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AI: the battleground for Final Cut Pro vs. Premiere Pro vs. Resolve

May 10, 2024

Generative AI and machine learning are changing the editing landscape with all three major editing packages fighting it out with amazing new AI tools.

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UE 5.4 released with improved ICVFX and Android VCam

April 23, 2024

UE 5.4 released with some great improvements for ICVFX, rendering and Android VCam

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Project Arena: Chaos LED volumes

April 21, 2024

Project Arena is a real-time ray tracing solution for virtual production from Chaos.

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Frame.io releases version 4

April 9, 2024

Frame.io delivers a powerful major upgrade.

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