Really cool trailer for the Season 3 of STRANGER THINGS! The VFX are made by: Method Studios Rodeo FX Spin VFX Creators: Matt Duffer & Ross Duffer Release Date: 4 July 2019 (Netflix) © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2019The post STRANGER THING…
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Yes! Here is the first trailer for the new movie by Quentin Tarantino, ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD: The VFX are made by: Luma Pictures Director: Quentin Tarantino Release Date: 26 July 2019 (USA) © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2019The post…
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Excellent new trailer for this Hong Kong sci-fi movie, WARRIORS OF FUTURE! The VFX are made by: FatFace Main Road Post Director: Yuen Fai Ng Release Date: 2019 © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2019The post WARRIORS OF FUTURE appeared first on…
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Brand new trailer for TOY STORY 4! The Animation and VFX are made by: Pixar Animation Studios Director: Josh Cooley Release Date: 21 June 2019 (USA) © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2019The post TOY STORY 4 appeared first on The Art of VFX.
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Marvel have just released this really cool video about the VFX work on CAPTAIN MARVEL explained by Overall VFX Supervisor Christopher Townsend! © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2019The post CAPTAIN MARVEL: The VFX work by Marvel Studios appear…
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Come have a look at the work of The Mill on this NIKE commercial directed by Matthew Vaughn: WANT TO KNOW MORE? The Mill: Dedicated page about NIKE “AWAKEN THE PHANTOM” on The Mill website. CREDITS Agency Agency: Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam Producer…
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Brand new TV Spot for GODZILLA – KING OF MONSTERS! The VFX are made by: MPC (VFX Supervisor: Robert Winter) DNEG (VFX Supervisor: Brian Connor) Method Studios (VFX Supervisor: Daryl Sawchuk) Raynault VFX (VFX Supervisor: Mathieu Raynault) Rodeo FX…
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Yes! LOVE, DEATH & ROBOTS, the animated anthology by Tim Miller and David Fincher is now streaming on Netflix! Release Date: 15 March 2019 (Netflix) © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2019The post LOVE, DEATH & ROBOTS appeared first on The Art o…
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Really cool new commercial for TOM CLANCY’S THE DIVISION 2 directed by Nicolas Winding Refn with the VFX made by Mikros MPC Advertising: CREDITS réalisateur : Nicolas Winding Refn directeur de la photographie : Diego Garcia production : Stink (Gre…
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Epic Games Launches Epic MegaGrants, New UE4 Tech and Epic Online Services at GDC 2019
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Love, Death & Robots is Netflix anthology that offers adult storytelling in a short form medium, from the brilliant minds of Tim Miller and David Fincher.
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More news from GDC: Maya artist can now connect directly to the Rokoko MoCap Library
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The new NVIDIA GPU version of Arnold goes into beta and it is fast, really fast.
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The de-aging of Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury and Clark Gregg's Phil Coulson in Captain Marvel.
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A new high end HMC from DI4D, we speak to CEO Colin Urquhart.
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A deep dive into one of the world's most complex face pipelines
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The Orville's Space Battle of Identity
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Visual Disruptors podcast with Mohen Leo from ILMxLAB and Rick Grandy at NVIDIA.
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Disney Research Studio's Medusa System
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The winners of the 2019 Oscars
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We talk to Ncam's CEO Nic Hatch.
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I’ve just launched a brand new VFX publication called befores & afters. Check it out at https://beforesandafters.com.
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At Cartoon Brew, I wrote about Ollie VR, a new animation in VR tool that’s designed for beginners.
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I wrote the cover feature for the latest 3D Artist magazine, on Animal Logic’s work for The LEGO Movie 2. Lots of fun doing this one.
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For VFX Voice, I covered the invisible vfx of Bird Box. Some stunning work!
- 20 days ago28 Feb 19, 8:37pm -

Check out the new 3D World magazine with features I’ve contributed on Alita: Battle Angel, DNEG’s environments and Stephan Fleet’s VFX tips.
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Had a blast chatting to Dean about the latest film, and the tech over the entire series. Read my interview at Cartoon Brew.
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For 3D Artist magazine, I talked to Weta Digital about their work on Alita: Battle Angel.
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For Cartoon Brew, I jumped into the recent slurry of cg humans / digital actors in all sorts of places – in film, tv, commercials, real-time and even live venues.
- 40 days ago8 Feb 19, 7:11pm -

For VFX Voice, I asked Mary Poppins Returns vfx supervisor Matt Johnson about practical fx, combining 2D animated characters with live-action, and other work in the film.
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For Cartoon Brew, I covered this Gremlin short, which used a new VirtuCamera iPhone to Maya app to help block scenes.
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Award-winning VFX house expands Vancouver and Montréal facilities, hires veteran television and VFX producer Michelle Eisenreich to lead Vancouver operations.
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Announcements include $100,000,000 Epic MegaGrants, features in Unreal Engine 4.22 and beyond, SDK availability for free Epic Online Services, Epic Games store news and more.
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NVIDIA supercharges creative workflows with RTX GPUs and Creator Ready Drivers to improve performance and reliability in creative applications.
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Disney’s historic $71.3 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox creates an unprecedented collection of content and talent for the Mouse House.
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Toby Emmerich, Peter Roth and Kim Williams appointed as the company’s interim leadership team.
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Foundry’s name and brands to remain unchanged under the continued leadership of CEO Craig Rodgerson in all-cash deal expected to close in April 2019.
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3D tool from Allegorithmic enables the rapid creation of PBR Material Libraries for game, film, architecture and industrial design.
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Samsung SDS integrates serverless and big data to automate machine learning application scaling and productization.
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New R&D unlocks unprecedented rendering speeds in V-Ray with NVIDIA’s new ray tracing hardware.
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Is it real or rendered in real-time? Coming later this year, High Definition Render Pipeline leverages the NVIDIA RTX platform to deliver photorealistic image quality and lighting.
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Featuring large-scale Jenga sets, the real-time location-based VR demo will track 130 objects simultaneously.
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Using assets from the award-winning Netflix series, NVIDIA teams with Autodesk and Vancouver VFX studio Image Engine to showcase real-time GPU-accelerated rendering workflows with RTX Server and Quadro vDWS.
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The company says the tech can turn anyone into an accomplished artist (though that’s not true, obviously).
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Its astounding resolution is well deserving of this exclamation mark!
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Apple has launched new versions of its 27- and 21.5 inch iMacs with faster CPUs and graphics, which Apple claims makes it up to 2.4x faster than previous models.
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While Apple says that the iPad Air isn’t for pro artists and designers, there are a few features we prefer to the iPad Pro.
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The great artist illustrated for over 150 books in his lifetime, one of which is being re-released in an exact replica of its 1930s first edition.
- 3 days ago18 Mar 19, 12:39pm -

Butcher Billy's artwork for a Black Mirror classic can now be yours in vinyl form for Record Store Day 2019.
- 3 days ago18 Mar 19, 9:27am -

A bizarre – and legally shady – marketing scheme tries to make office workers into designers as part of the fight against AI – all through the use of prin
- 8 days ago13 Mar 19, 11:16am -

CorelDraw comes to the Mac for the first time ever - but creatives will be more excited by it's new web-based application.
- 9 days ago12 Mar 19, 1:01pm -

A series of prints honours influential bands in stamp form, defining their music with great and minimal designs.
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The results are really impressive.
- 10 days ago11 Mar 19, 12:42pm -

A majority of illustrators say they don’t earn a suitable salary to live 'sustainably' and it's causing anxiety according to a new survey conducted and published by Ben O’Brien, aka Ben the Illustrator.
- 12 days ago8 Mar 19, 2:33pm -

Artist agency Grand Matter have collaborated with artists to launch a range of limited edition prints commemorating International Women’s Day.
- 14 days ago6 Mar 19, 4:31pm -

DNEG Expands TV Business in Vancouver and Montréal  Animation World NetworkAward-winning VFX house expands Vancouver and Montréal facilities, hires veteran television and VFX producer Michelle Eisenreich to lead Vancouver ...
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FCPD spreads awareness of underage drinking and drug use to local high school students  WDVM 25Statistics show that roughly one-third of alcohol-related teen traffic fatalities occur between April and June- the peak of prom and graduation season.
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See Alan Parsons Music Video From Star Wars-Themed Film 5-25-77  ComingSoon.netLegendary prog rocker Alan Parsons has just released a video of the song "I Can't Get There From Here" from the Star Wars-themed film 5-25-77.
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Mom on popular family YouTube channel accused of pepper-spraying, starving her children  WTVR CBS 6 NewsThe "Fantastic Adventures" YouTube channel has racked up more than 250 million views with its adorable cast of seven adopted children, silly top…
- 4 hours ago20 Mar 19, 9:13pm -

The Best TV Shows & Movies Coming to Netflix in April 2019  /FILMHere are all the new TV shows and movies coming to Netflix in April 2019, including Burning, the Hateful Eight, All the President's Men, The Fifth Element and ...
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A children's adventure with 1980s vibe, Entertainment News & Top Stories  The Straits TimesThis is the sort of film that went out of style years ago - kids go on an unsupervised adventure, foes become friends, they conquer their fears together and…
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Award-winning VFX house DNEG Expands TV Operations in Vancouver and Montreal  SHOOT OnlineLeading visual effects, animation and stereo conversion company DNEG is expanding its BAFTA-winning TV VFX offering in North America to meet growing ...
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BOXX Deep Learning Workstation Demos Datalogue Software at GTC Update  GlobeNewswireDeskside System Equipped with Four NVIDIA Quadro GPUs Accelerates High Performance Computing Application.
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SXSW Review: RED 11 Offers A Lesson In Cinema  Birth.Movies.Death.In order to fully appreciate Robert Rodriguez's Red 11, one needs to understand the film's context. There's a reason why Rodriguez is known as “the one-man ...
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Here's what residents asked at Q&A with Eden Portland director  Dorset EchoResidents quizzed the project director of Eden Portland on plans for the tourist attraction.
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Ian Schrager, the cofounder of Studio 54, says the legendary NYC nightclub could be recreated today — but it would be different in 3 key ways  INSIDERIan Schrager says Studio 54 could be recreated with a few key adjustments: more sophisticated te…
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Chinese Film 'The Wandering Earth' Imagines a Journey to a New Sun  Space.comChina's 2019 blockbuster movie 'The Wandering Earth' takes audiences on a epic journey outward through the solar system.
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Despite having his role cut and replaced by Paul Bettany, actor Michael K. Williams says he holds no grudges against the “Star Wars” franchise and hopes to one day return. Williams took on the role of the villain Dryden Vos in “Solo: A Star War…
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CBS Corp. is reportedly preparing to announce the departure of chief executive officer Les Moonves as the media mogul faces a fresh round of allegations of sexual harassment. Six additional women have come forward to accuse Moonves of harassment or a…
- 10 Sep 18, 12:53am -

Appearing at the Toronto Film Festival to promote “Hotel Mumbai,” actor Armie Hammer was asked about how the teased “Call Me By Your Name” sequel is coming along, and from the sounds of if things are progressing. Late last year, during promot…
- 10 Sep 18, 12:29am -

Toronto-based indie filmmakers Jonathan and Justin Gajewski are reportedly developing “Ring King,” a biopic about Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s father and Canadian wrestling superstar Rocky Johnson. Born and raised in Nova Scotia as Wade Doug…
- 10 Sep 18, 12:27am -

Reviews were terrible, but that didn’t stop people turning out for “The Conjuring” spin-off “The Nun” which easily took the top spot at the weekend box-office with a franchise-best $53.5 million opening over the three day weekend. The story…
- 9 Sep 18, 6:54pm -

“Titans” is the first of the three commissioned live-action series for the DC Universe streaming service and has been in production for many months ahead of its debut on October 12th. “Doom Patrol” recently kicked off filming and is looking l…
- 9 Sep 18, 6:42pm -

Reshoots have just kicked off on the untitled fourth “Avengers” movie and Jeremy Renner, the most notable absentee in “Avengers: Infinity War,” has taken to Instagram to tease his return to the role Clint Barton, a.k.a. Hawkeye (or Ronin?). W…
- 9 Sep 18, 6:33pm -

While reviews for “The Predator” were mixed out of Toronto, reviews for the new “Halloween” whichi screened last night were much more positive with plenty of them calling it a return to form for the series. Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Pr…
- 9 Sep 18, 6:23pm -

North American Theater Owners president and CEO John Fithian, representing exhibitors at the Toronto Film Festival this week, has urged Netflix to follow the lead of rival Amazon and show their movies at the local multiplex. Talking with THR, Fithian…
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At the start of the year, 20th Century Fox did something unexpected with its “X-Men” spin-off film “The New Mutants” film. Having already begun marketing the film with a trailer and key art, they ended up delaying it from its planned April re…
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Filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron’s acclaimed and deeply personal black-and-white drama “Roma” has taken home the Gold Lion at the 2018 Venice Film Festival. The story follows two domestic workers caring for a small family in 1970s Mexico City and is cu…
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Update: You can donate to Eric here: https://www.gofundme.com/s5hw7-send-eric-to-dc Huge thanks to all of you who helped contribute to comments on NAFTA renegotiations. VFX professional Eric Rosenthal left a comment in the previous post that he might…
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Statement from Daniel Lay, Co-Founder of the Association of Digital Artists, Professionals, and Technicians In 2013 Daniel Lay, the writer behind the industry blog VFX Soldier started ADAPT to help fund and direct a trade effort to curtail the use of…
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Hollywood Reporter: Ron Thornton, an Emmy-winning visual effects designer, supervisor and producer who worked on such shows as Babylon 5 and Star Trek: Voyager, has died. He was 59. Variety: Thornton is best known for bringing computer-generated imag…
- 23 Nov 16, 7:29pm -

Today is my last day in the visual effects industry. It’s an industry that I’ve spent nine years of my life completely dedicated to, so it’s a bitter sweet kind of day. My love for animation and film began at 4 years old, when I saw the Lion Ki…
- 12 Oct 16, 6:08pm -

I came across a post on Facebook by one of Ron Thornton’s friends that the veteran VFX supervisor has been hospitalized. While I don’t have all the information a gofundme page has been set up to help pay for medical expenses. If you can please he…
- 16 Sep 16, 4:42am -

Tonight a majority UK voters chose to leave the European Union which as of this writing is leading to a meltdown in financial markets and wild drops in foreign currencies agains the US dollar. There’s been a bit of chatter amongst many in VFX as to…
- 24 Jun 16, 6:43am -

Are people still reading this thing? Well, It’s been a year since I’ve posted on this blog and after the end of the ADAPT effort I took a long hiatus. As disappointed as I was, the post-VFX life has been great. New opportunities, I got a home, a…
- 2 May 16, 5:43am -

From the press release: https://wikileaks.org/sony/press/ Today, 16 April 2015, WikiLeaks publishes an analysis and search system for The Sony Archives: 30,287 documents from Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and 173,132 emails, to and from more than…
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The other day I got an email from the VES asking members to suggest nominees for title of VES Fellow: The Visual Effects Society is asking for your suggestions for nominees for title of VES Fellow, which is a member who has maintained an outstanding…
- 14 Apr 15, 8:41pm -

I haven’t posted much on this blog but some recent news caught my eye: Last week’s Godbout Commission report sent shivers up the spines of Quebec’s film and television production industry. The Quebec Taxation Review Committee, chaired by econom…
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