A brand-new featurette for Spider-Man: Brand New Day previews the next chapter of Peter Parker’s story. With the world having forgotten his identity, Spider-Man must move forward while confronting a powerful new threat unlike any he has faced befor…
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Last year, Christian Irles shared insights into Image Engine’s work on The Gorge. Since then, he has worked on The Abandons and made his return to Cinesite. Today, he discusses his contribution to Masters of the Universe. How did you get involved i…
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Discover how the teams at Benuts and CGEV delivered the invisible visual effects for Les Parfait(s): Arnaques en famille, from seamless environment extensions and screen replacements to motion design work and a dramatic helicopter sequence set in a s…
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Discover what happens behind one of the most pivotal chapters of House of the Dragon Season 3. The cast and creative team break down Episode 4, exploring the key character moments, major turning points, and the escalating conflict shaping Westeros. H…
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Invisible VFX make all the difference. Discover how FOLKS combined explosion simulations, environment destruction, CG blood, digital props, and compositing to support the action in Episode 6 of Daredevil: Born Again Season 2. The breakdown highlights…
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A brand-new trailer for legendary director Ridley Scott‘s The Dog Stars has arrived. Set in a brutal post-apocalyptic world, the film follows a young pilot who ventures into the unknown after a mysterious radio transmission rekindles his hope. Afte…
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From digital snow and explosions to subtle environment work and invisible enhancements, Hybride crafted seamless visual effects to support the grounded realism of The Last Frontier. Watch the complete VFX breakdown. The team relied on digital snow, h…
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Ever wondered how the bending effects were created? Outpost VFX shares a behind-the-scenes look at the visual effects for Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2, showcasing the work behind Earth, Water and Airbending. Outpost VFX has shared a behind-the…
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Tom Cruise and Alejandro G. Iñárritu team up for Digger. When the world’s most powerful man becomes humanity’s last hope… or its greatest threat. The first trailer is pure chaos. Digger has unveiled its first official trailer, offering a glim…
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In 2025, Chris McLaughlin walked us through DNEG‘s work on Mickey 17. This time, he joins us to explore the ambitious visual effects of Masters of the Universe. How did you get involved in this film? It feels like a very long time ago now, but I’…
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Park Chan-wook and Dexter Studios continue their long-standing collaboration with No Other Choice. Discover how the studio crafted the film’s seamless invisible visual effects, supporting the director’s latest thriller without ever drawing attent…
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Journey back to the Earth Kingdom with Accenture Song latest VFX breakdown for Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2. Discover how the team brought Wan Shi Tong and his legendary Spirit Library, stunning environments and spectacular bending effects to…
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Foundry has released a new AI-powered plugin for Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio and Nuke Indie that aims to take the grind out of one of the most tedious jobs in visual effects: rotoscoping.
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From LiDAR to Gaussian splats, Clear Angle is capturing the real world so the best VFX teams, in the world, can rebuild it: one scan, one face and one lava field at a time.
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From clipped to equipped: Beeble’s SwitchHDR brings SDR into your HDR VFX pipeline.
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Congratulations to all of the nominated artists, supervisors, producers, and facilities whose work continues to push episodic visual effects forward.
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Cooke’s Jordan Thistlewood joins us to explain why lens /i Tech may be the missing link between what was shot on set and what VFX needs to finish the shot, and we should now be demanding it.
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On this 'vocal' episode of the VFXShow, we discuss how Disclosure Day works as a Spielberg UFO film, how its visual effects support both spectacle and invisible effects - all with some surprising reactions from the guys.
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Our latest fxpodcast with ILM's John Knoll on miniatures in a tiny LED cube, the Star Wars style, and why the practical and the digital still need each other.
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From brain-sucking horror to heartbreaking empathy, for this fxpodcast we go inside the creature work of The Boroughs with VFX Supervisor Tara DiMarco and ILM’s Steve Ellis.
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The crew reviews the VFX of Backrooms - which is in a genre that Mike absolutely HATES.
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We talk with Man on Fire VFX Supervisor Kevin Lingenfelser about the explosive building collapse, chaotic rubble aftermath, and high-octane Learjet sequence.
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Jason, Matt and Mike return to a galaxy far, far away to unpack the VFX, creatures, puppetry and theatrical scale of Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu.
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Union VFX and Clear Angle are turning Gaussian splats from a tech demo into a crowd-pleasing production pipeline. Literally. We speak with David Schneider, VFX and Technical Supervisor at Union, in this fxpodcast episode.
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What a series! Listen in for an episode that goes back to the very beginning.The post Our final ILM book podcast is with the VFX artist who changed my life: Todd Vaziri appeared first on befores & afters.
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Getting into gear on Gollum.The post Andy Serkis shoots fun mocap video for start of production on ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum’ appeared first on befores & afters.
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Crew members reflect on all things animation, including previs and mocap, and share some very fun stories.The post This Wētā FX animation roundtable was a total hoot appeared first on befores & afters.
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Another great featurette, this time for s3, episode 4.The post New ‘House of the Dragon’ featurette showcases dragon head prosthetics work appeared first on befores & afters.
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Blood and gore, and how to kill Seth Rogen.The post The art of chunkiness appeared first on befores & afters.
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Issue #62 of befores & afters magazine covers the visual effects of The Boys, season 5.The post All the CRAZY visual effects in s5 of ‘The Boys’ appeared first on befores & afters.
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Finding VFX through a love of filmmaking - lots of creatives discover visual effects as they develop a passion for filmmaking.The post From classroom to credits appeared first on befores & afters.
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Showcasing the process of taking Julia Garner performance capture through to the final character.The post Imageworks releases Silver Surfer ‘The Fantastic Four’ breakdown appeared first on befores & afters.
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Here's the Emmy nominations - congrats to all! The post See the full list of VFX Emmys nominees appeared first on befores & afters.
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A brand new podcast in the ILM series.The post ILM’s John Knoll reveals one of the toughest VFX sequences he’s ever worked on appeared first on befores & afters.
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New tier adds studio-controlled licensing, project management and governance tools for high-end media production, giving pipeline supervisors control over which AI models artists use; studios can run workflows on-premises or in private cloud infrastr…
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The trio join previously announced Peter Dinklage and returning stars, including Sydney Chandler, on the Noah Hawley, FX and Hulu hit series’ sophomore season production, now underway in London.
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Eloi Champagne will lead the July 22 Birds of a Feather session with Jimmy Fournier, covering Gaussian-based animation workflows, hybrid pipelines and production uses from acquisition through delivery, with examples from NFB works in progress and tec…
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The VFX supervisor reflects on 8 years leading visual effects production on the hit Prime Video series; the final season pushed his teams through 1,600+ shots including Homelander’s CG death and Seth Rogan’s celebrity cameo explosion.
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Ric Comline joins as executive creative director, Thierry Levy as executive producer and Sean Cooper as creative director; the London-based trio to focus on expanding advertising and brand work while supporting global episodic, immersive and film pro…
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Epic 3-day fan event will feature a ‘Muppets’ songbook celebration with Seth MacFarlane, new Leslie Iwerks documentary, and anniversary panels for ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ ‘KINGDOM HEARTS,’ and ‘Spider-Man’ a…
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The company’s Research and Engineering leaders Neil Ashton, Ming-Yu Liu and Edward Liu will talk on advances in neural rendering, world models and AI-driven simulation next Monday, July 20; conference runs July 19-23 in Los Angeles.
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The opening-day program, running July 19, brings studios and indies together for talks and networking on how games are made; sessions span accessibility, audio, VFX, performance capture, pipelines, and game development economics, with games programmi…
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The son of Mickey Mouse co-creator Ub Iwerks helped advance projection technology, 3D and large-format filmmaking, Circle-Vision, motion simulators, and immersive attractions across more than six decades with Disney and Iwerks Entertainment.
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Joel Crawford and Januel P. Mercado will take the stage to share production insights and stories surrounding their new original animated comedy adventure hitting theaters on September 25; event runs October 12-16 in Turin, Italy.
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Distinguished VFX practitioners will be recognized at a September 4 celebration, including 2026 VES Founders Award recipient Susan Zwerman, VES Lifetime Member Jeff Kleiser, Honorary VES Members Sir William Sargent and Scott Stokdyk, VES Fellows Neis…
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Mixing practical with partial and fully CG shots, the 4-part Netflix miniseries takes viewers back 235 million years to an Earth teeming with creatures big and small, feathered and scaled, all quite hungry.
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Foundry’s SmartRoto: AI-assisted roto that aims to work the way you do  fxguide
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Foundry Launches Griptape Enterprise for Secure AI-Accelerated VFX Workflows  Animation World Network
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“Every shot was a puzzle to decipher”: How ILM Created the Dragonsnake in ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’  Industrial Light & Magic
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Animation, Evolving: Inside the SIGGRAPH 2026 Computer Animation Festival  GameDev.net
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Kurdish Short Film Wins Best Visual Effects Award at UK Film Festival  Kurdistan24
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Foundry appoints Griptape founder Kyle Roche as chief AI officer  Broadcast
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Inside 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' Season 2 VFX: How Framestore Adapted Appa's 'Aggressive Airbending' for Live-Action  What's on Netflix
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SIGGRAPH 2026 Returns to Los Angeles, Spotlighting Southern California's Computer Graphics Community  Morningstar
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Our final ILM book podcast is with the VFX artist who changed my life: Todd Vaziri  befores & afters
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Day of Chaos: The Visual Effects of 'Dredd' (Video 2013) - Videos  IMDb
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Never a Dull Moment: Stephan Fleet Unpacks the VFX of 'The Boys' Final Season  Animation World Network
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Andy Serkis shoots fun mocap video for start of production on 'The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum'  befores & afters
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The conversation could have been about tools, pipelines, or AI. Instead it kept returning to something older and harder to automate: the compulsion to make. Tim Thompson talks with director Onur Senturk at OFFF Barcelona 2026.
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At the Beacon Theatre, with every phone sealed shut, Madonna premiered Confessions II and reminded us of a forty-year truth: she has never simply released music. She has released visual worlds. A love letter to the greatest Motion Designer who never…
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Yorkshire-based Distant Future Animation Studio has created Maritime Connected, a 90-second animated film exploring the unseen relationships between people, industries, and communities connected by the world’s oceans. Created for Lloyd’s Register…
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Madrid / Shanghai / Los Angeles Final Frontier has announced the signing of director, visual artist, and curator Andrea Devia-Nuño for worldwide representation. Born in Colombia and based in Spain, Andrea Devia-Nuño brings a multidisciplinary backg…
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Filmmaker Hao Wu worked in Silicon Valley before turning the camera on the industry he helped build. With TikTok Never Dies, premiering at the 2026 Tribeca Festival, he asks a question that lands hard for anyone who creates online: what does it mean…
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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has announced that Liz Hannah, co-creator and co-showrunner of Netflix’s The God of the Woods, will direct on the show alongside Cory Finley, Meera Menon and Quyen Tran. Each will tackle two episodes of the eight-episode drama,…
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The techie titans who grabbed our attention and our Oscars in The Social Network 25 years ago are ready to capture our screens again. Their forays are omniscient as well as ominous. In upcoming movies like The Social Reckoning and Artificial or in…
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EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of a knockout trailer for I Play Rocky, Anthony Ippolito has signed with CAA. I Play Rocky chronicles the underdog backstory behind the ultimate underdog movie, Rocky. Ippolito plays the young Sylvester Stallone, who was so i…
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EXCLUSIVE: Australian crime drama Scrublands is back for a third season, and we’ve got first look images and casting news. Luke Arnold (Black Sails) and Bella Heathcote (Pieces of Her) will return to lead Season 3, which is for Aussie streamer Stan…
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A White House teleprompter operator has been placed on leave after he allegedly made around $100,000 from bets on speeches given by President Trump. Gabriel Perez, a technical assistant to Trump and teleprompter since 2016, is reportedly in discussio…
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Kris Jenner’s mother, Mary Jo “MJ” Shannon, has died. She was 91. In a post on social media, the Kardashian matriarch shared news that her mother had died on July 16. “Today, we said goodbye to my beautiful Mommy MJ,” Jenner posted on Insta…
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UPDATED throughout: There was “no altercation” in the Today‘s Midtown Manhattan studio this morning, reps for the NBC morning show now say, though Today is reviewing the “security incident” in which a man entered an unauthorized area to app…
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EXCLUSIVE: We have the first cast departure following Season 51 of Saturday Night Live, and it’s a big one. Chloe Fineman, one of the NBC sketch comedy’s standout performers in the past few years, is leaving after seven seasons. Fineman already h…
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Candace Bushnell and The Real Housewives of New Jersey alum Margaret Josephs are joining the cast of The Golden Life, Season 1. E! has ordered additional episodes of the reality series that reunites the OG cast of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New…
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EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Ortega (Big Mistakes), Tim Meadows (Peacemaker) and Dan Bucatinsky (The Comeback) have come aboard for undisclosed roles in Netflix’s 13 Going on 30 reboot. They join the previously announced Emily Bader, Logan Lerman, Adeline Ru…
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EXCLUSIVE: Julius Avery, the Australian genre filmmaker behind titles like Overlord and The Pope’s Exorcist, is set to direct the snake-themed survival thriller for 20th Century Studios. This marks the first big development on the project since…
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EXCLUSIVE: The Elizabeth Banks-led Apple TV half-hour comedy series has cast Hamish Linklater (Widow’s Bay, Manhunt), Michelle Buteau (Survival of the Thickest), and Simu Liu (Shang-Chi, Barbie) in recurring roles. They join Ted Danson, Kate…
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hey! i had a question about best practices when it comes to shooting lens distortion grids. if we have 2 identical sets of lenses on our show, would we normally need to shoot our distortion grids with both sets? or would just shooting them with one s…
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I've wondered how film and editing crews replace crash pads in action films. The talent takes a fall onto a green or blue crash pad then the editing crew makes it disappear, so it looks like the talent crashes onto pavement. How do they do this? s…
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SideFX launched a Houdini 22 technical preview today for Linux Arm64 platforms. Jeff Geerling worked with SideFX to run a few test scenes through their paces. submitted by /u/shidarin [link] [comments]
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I've been looking at tracking markers and keep seeing this type with heaps of shapes. I can't find anything about them so I'm wondering what the purpose of them are compared to more conventional tracking markers. Thanks! submitted by /u/x…
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Hi guys, im looking to hire an experienced animator for 1-on-1 screen-share tutoring sessions in iClone 8. My main focus right now is mastering motion capture cleanup and getting familiar with the platform's cleanup tools. I want to learn how to effi…
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Hi, I see a lot of posts about renders and animation but no Practical FX. Is it okay to share? [ When I say practical I mean: Animatronics, Puppets, Make-up and Rigs ] submitted by /u/Praisekelechi95 [link] [comments]
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Hello fellow VFX Artists (mostly Compositors). I would like to tackle a very big question and bring a new conversation as the few I found were really old. What are the pros and cons of Nuke vs Fusion Studio? What's your personal thought about those…
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