Every weekend, we highlight a handpicked selection of stories from Art of VFX. Whether you’ve missed an interview, want to revisit a great breakdown, or discover the artists behind today’s biggest productions, Weekend Spotlight is your chance to…
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Back to 1980s New York! Mavericks VFX reveals the invisible visual effects behind The Westies, seamlessly transforming streets and urban environments to bring the period setting to life. Set in Hell’s Kitchen, The Westies follows the crime gang as…
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Beauty comes at a deadly price. FOLKS reveals its VFX work on The Beauty, creating complex transformations, physical mutations and destruction through a heavily CG-driven approach. Blending body horror with sharp social commentary, The Beauty explore…
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Based in Giza, Egypt, Trend VFX delivered a wide range of visual effects for Asad, including historical city extensions, large-scale environments, CG characters, crowd work, digital assets and water effects. Take a closer look at their work in this V…
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A quiet snowy street turns into a blood-soaked nightmare in this gruesome exclusive clip from Resident Evil. The production’s visual effects are supervised by Alessandro Ongaro, alongside Production VFX Producer and Associate Producer Brice Parker,…
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Ghost Soldier unleashes an action-packed new trailer filled with gunfire, explosions and striking slow-motion shots, as a former Green Beret fights to protect his rural Wyoming community from a ruthless corporation. The story follows a weapon systems…
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An epic naval battle, vast smoke-filled environments and some seriously impressive dragons. Weta FX reveals its visual effects work on House of the Dragon Season 3, from the Battle of the Gullet and the introduction of Sheepstealer to Vhagar’s deva…
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READY? FIGHT! The new Street Fighter trailer enters the arena with an action-packed look at the World Warrior Tournament, where fists fly, rivalries ignite and every fight could be GAME OVER. Ryu and Ken reunite under the call of Chun-Li for the lege…
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Take a closer look at the subtle and invisible VFX behind The Bombing of Pan Am 103. Milk VFX contributed over 100 visual effects shots to the series based on the real events surrounding the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight…
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Major spoiler warning! This impressive clip reveals the final scene of Silo Season 3, Episode 9, as Helen takes a tour of Silo 18 while Daniel listens to Senator Thurman’s rehearsal speech. The big day is almost over. Almost. As the silo recovers f…
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Survival is a team effort in Heart of the Beast. A new featurette explores the relationship between Brad Pitt‘s character and his loyal combat dog as they face the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness. The survival thriller follows a Special Forces offic…
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The Television Academy and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the 2026 Emmy Awards for developments in television engineering, science and technology.
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From compositor to CEO: Alana Newell on the future of Crafty Apes.
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An look at adopting generative AI open-weight models and how they can improve workflow stability, security, cost predictability, and delivery efficiency.
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Go with the Flow—AI filmmaking just got directable, with a system that combines interactive 3D scene construction with the visual power of generative 2D video models.
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Join us for our friendly neighbourhood disagreement about the latest film from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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How Los Angeles based Impossible Objects are using HP ZGX Nanos to bring new artist-driven AI workflows alongside traditional vfx tools.
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DNEG'S Daniel Baldwin on the fire, full-CG crashes, seamless camera handoffs, and more on the invisible effects for Citadel Season 2.
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VFX Supervisor Betsy Paterson breaks down Stranger Things season 5. The best visual effects don’t replace reality, they convince reality to play along.
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Can a ten-year voyage finally bring the vfxshow crew to a shared opinion about Director Christopher Nolan? Probably not. But listen and find out for yourself.
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StEM3 gives creative filmmakers a free, standardised toolkit to test, validate and trust an LED volume before the cameras roll.
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Sony’s FX5: a cinema camera so small Gareth Edwards can hide in plain sight and so capable he calls it a TARDIS.
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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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How that crazy car shot - with no cuts - was crafted in VFX for Meet Joe Black by ILM.The post Brad Pitt gets hit by a car (twice) appeared first on befores & afters.
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(I've seen the movie, and it's insane!)The post ‘HOPE’ making of trailer includes Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender mocap sessions appeared first on befores & afters.
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Includes the ship battle and plenty of dragons.The post Watch Wētā FX’s VFX breakdown for s3 of ‘House of the Dragon’ appeared first on befores & afters.
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How 3D Editor + Canvas works.The post Nikola Todorovic on the latest developments in Autodesk’s Flow Studio appeared first on befores & afters.
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Lots coming, including on Backrooms, Project Hail Mary and The Mandalorian and Grogu.The post Magazines in the works at befores & afters appeared first on befores & afters.
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Joey King as Kylie and Solly McLeod as Tom Lockland in Practical Magic 2.The post On The Set Pic: ‘Practical Magic 2’ appeared first on befores & afters.
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How Davy Jones was brought to life in 'Dead Man's Chest' thanks to actor Bill Nighy and new VFX innovations from ‪ILM.The post That time Bill Nighy wore ‘computer pajamas’ appeared first on befores & afters.
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The Visual Effects Society has announced new categories and updates for the VES Awards.The post One of the new categories at the VES Awards is ‘Outstanding In-Camera Effects in a Photoreal Project’ appeared first on befores & afters.
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Environment work and Zeb feature.The post Don’t miss ILP’s VFX breakdown for ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ appeared first on befores & afters.
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Go behind the scenes.The post VFX breakdown: ‘Star City’ by DNEG appeared first on befores & afters.
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London studio's 2 new reels show 73 hero creatures and 13 real-time environments built for Tim Haines' 8-part NBC prehistoric series, and the 100-plus shots it delivered for the Netflix drama about the 1988 Lockerbie investigation.
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The Oscar-nominated production designer gives a ‘Creating Worlds’ career talk, from’ Lord of the Rings’ matte painter to production designer on James Cameron's sequels, and joins 2 panels on designing the latest ‘Avatar’ film's environmen…
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Activision's Raven Software leads this set of listings with five openings, alongside Brown Bag Films, DNEG, Flying Bark, Framestore and Netflix across nine countries.
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The 8th edition brings Brad Bird, Yoshitaka Amano, Dylan Cole and Nathan Greno to the Pasadena Convention Center, October 23-25; behind-the-scenes panels on 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' and 'Avatar: Fire and Ash,' John Musker and Ron Clements together…
- 4 days ago2 Sep 26, 4:58pm -

LinkedIn job postings digest, published Tuesdays and Thursdays, gathers summaries and direct links to some of the latest animation and visual effects positions around the globe.
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The 2-time Oscar winner sold off 4 decades of models, props, and gear - 'Star Wars' holochess pieces and an 'Empire Strikes Back' AT-AT among them - in a 3-day liquidation that wrapped Sunday; the studio's name continues under PhantomFX, with its Tor…
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The ETC think tank inside the School of Cinematic Arts has folded the AI toolmaker's relighting, compositing, and scene-reconstruction tech into courses and research for hands-on work in VFX, virtual production and visual storytelling.
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The Canadian actor carried the Autobot leader from the 1984 syndicated series through 2023's 'Rise of the Beasts,' building the performance on his Marine brother's advice to be strong enough to be gentle; also voiced Eeyore, Monterey Jack, Ironhide a…
- 9 days ago28 Aug 26, 3:05pm -

Tech giant's flagship image editor gains a non-destructive Light Adjustment Layer, Firefly Image 5-powered Instruct Edit with Masks, visual Markup prompting, and a beta AI Assisted Editor in latest update.
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Production designer Warren Alan Young built a three-and-a-half-story Rockefeller Center under construction, a gilded-cage apartment striped like prison bars and a bar rigged to break on contact - every set tested to read both in black-and-white and c…
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Photoreal and animated shorts, music videos, and social content up to 45 minutes get their own prize as the society updates its rules ahead of the February 17, 2027 ceremony; entries run September 15-October 31.
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The Toronto studio's 81 artists spent eight months on nearly 150 shots for the sci-fi horror series, matching eight-foot practical dolls digitally, giving them broken-button fangs, and building digital doubles for evisceration and creature transforma…
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Director Michael Dinner Loves a Challenge — and He Had Plenty of Them on ‘Silo’  IndieWire
- 2 days ago4 Sep 26, 3:30pm -

Malayali visual effects artist Nijesh Sidharthan finds his space in the artistic circles of Australia  The Hindu
- 3 days ago3 Sep 26, 10:51am -

The Story of Industrial Light & Magic — the Company That Changed Visual Effects Forever  The Walt Disney Company
- 4 days ago2 Sep 26, 7:13pm -

ONYX VISUAL EFFECTS KEEPS RETURNING TO PARADISE  vfxvoice.com
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California Legislature passes postproduction tax credit. What happens next?  Los Angeles Times
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Visual effects artist Phil Tippett, of ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Jurassic Park,’ closes Berkeley studio  Los Angeles Times
- 6 days ago31 Aug 26, 5:42pm -

Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor discusses working on 'The Mandalorian and Grogu'  9News
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Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor discusses working on 'The Mandalorian and Grogu'  13newsnow.com
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Visual Effects Society announces new categories and updates for 25th Annual VES Awards  British Cinematographer
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Visual Effects Society Announces New Categories and Updates for 25th Annual VES Awards  Animation Magazine
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Visual Effects (VFX) Market Size | Forecast, 2035  Market Growth Reports
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‘I’ve always been fond of hairy creatures!’ Visual effects maestro Rick Baker on a monstrously good career  theguardian.com
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Forever, the global creative group behind FutureDeluxe, Tendril, Builders Club, Found, and Trizz, has announced the appointment of Chris Bahry as Chief Executive Officer. Bahry co-founded Tendril and built it from a boutique creative lab into one of…
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FIFA retires its mascots after one summer; the smartest brands never do. In his first Motionographer column, Pickbrain founder Federico Masini makes the case for characters as brand infrastructure, armed with fresh data, a fan-elected thermos, and a…
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The Motion Awards X reopens for Motionographer's 20th anniversary, combining 2025 and 2026 work in one edition for the first time. Our birthday gift: every submission through September 30 includes one extra, free. Final deadline: January 15, 2027. Ha…
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Studio VAS turns twenty the same year we do. Martín Schurmann on falling dreams, backups on CD, and finding a new name hidden inside the old one.
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For today’s animation students, a thesis film is no longer just a graduation requirement. It’s often the project that lands a first job, attracts collaborators, gets into festivals, and introduces artists to the industry. That’s why MAKE create…
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“If you look at the synoptic Gospels — and they are synoptic, which means they don’t tell you everything,” Mel Gibson told The Christian Post in an interview this week. “And even John says, ‘Y’know, hey, there were many other things [Je…
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Mariska Hargitay is warming up to host the televised Primetime Emmy Awards in the best way imaginable – by winning two Emmys for her documentary My Mom Jayne. The HBO film in which Hargitay explores the life and career of her late mother, the actre…
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EXCLUSIVE: The 2017 surprise Best Picture Oscar winner, Moonlight, is getting a tenth anniversary re-release from A24 on Oct. 2 in a new 4K remastered cut. The news was just announced by the film’s director, co-writer, Barry Jenkins, at a special T…
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The first night of the Emmys was full of surprises. Antiques Roadshow, which has been airing on PBS since 1997, won its first ever Emmy in 24 attempts and snatched the award away from Queer Eye and Shark Tank for the first time since 2013. Antiques R…
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At times downright hilarious, at other times so farcical it nearly sails over the top, and at other times quite poignant, Jesse Eisenberg’s third time out writing and directing a feature film, The Debut, throws it all at the wall, hits its target m…
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Norman Lear remains the oldest Emmy winner after Octavia Spencer scored a surprise win over Sir David Attenborough at the Peacock Theater. Spencer scored her first Emmy in the Outstanding Narrator category for her work on Investigation Discovery’s…
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert had an unexpectedly good night at the first evening of the Emmy awards. The canceled series came away with two big upsets at the event formerly known as the Creative Arts Emmys. Colbert Before Air won the Emmy for O…
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Jimmy Kimmel has another Emmy. The comedian has picked up for Outstanding Host for a Game Show for his work on ABC’s Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. It is his second consecutive win in the category, having scored it for the same show last year. Kimm…
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The 2026 Telluride kicked off Friday, September 5, in Colorado and runs through Labor Day. The 53rd edition of the fest kicks off with first-day films including seven-time Oscar nominee Mike Leigh’s Tender Loving Care and the Andrew Scott-led Elsin…
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Danny Boyle has confirmed the use of AI in new movie Ink about the launch of The Sun newspaper. Speaking to Vanity Fair, Boyle said he had used around 30 seconds of generative AI in the making of his new movie, which opened the Venice Film Festival t…
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As Kanye West returned to the Windy City for a two-night stay, he had some support from an old friend. On Saturday, Kid Cudi defended performing with the controversial 24x Grammy-winning artist the night before at Soldier Field in Chicago, telling a…
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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first clip for Venice Film Festival genre pic Father Joe, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Al Pacino and teen Ever Anderson, daughter of Milla Jovovich and filmmaker Paul W.S. Anderson. Sutherland plays “a man of faith who wages…
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I recently had a conversation with a good friend of mine about great movies with outdated CGI. I said that I don’t really mind it and in some instances it even adds to the movie’s charm. He disagreed, saying that unlike with outdated practi…
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I want to do a little test shot with a small dinosaur standing on the beach and the waves washing around its feet. I captured some footage with the camera on a tripod, and my hands in the water to ensure there'd be interactions with the sand an…
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Hello, hope you all are doing well. As the title suggests, I wanted advice on switch from prep to a comp position. The studio I'm working at doesn't seem too eager to hire internally, and making a professional showreel seems so tough when I'm not act…
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I have a couple of shots made with the Canon stereoscopic lens. The end product is a VR video that is going to be seen in a headset. Which software should I use to be able to properly composite 3d elements, like titles and such on the video. Is there…
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Right now ive been testing a script that lets me export 3d track from AE to blender so ive been testing alittle implementing 3d elements to the real world, but i dont really know what to do to learn more. Are there any good courses that are free etc?…
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Any of you fine VFX folks keep old back issues of CInefex? I'm looking for one, probably in the early-to-mid 2000s, that contained a full page ad for either New Deal Studios or possibly Hunter-Gratzner. The ad was a black and white photo that picture…
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