We’re usually a bit quieter on weekends (yes, the ski season has started)… but this ILM VFX making of for The Running Man was simply too good to wait. A perfect behind-the-scenes treat — and a nice warm-up before our interview with Production V…
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Dive into the world of Avatar: Fire and Ash as visionary director James Cameron and the cast explore the next chapter of Pandora. A grieving family faces rising tensions, a fierce new Na’vi tribe, and a shifting moral landscape! The Production VFX…
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The fight isn’t over. In Street Fighter, Ryu, Ken, and Chun-Li return to the arena for a brutal new World Warrior Tournament—one hiding a sinister plot that could tear them apart. Old wounds, new enemies… and only one chance to survive. Watch t…
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A new era begins for Supergirl. Faced with an unexpected enemy, Kara Zor-El teams up with an unlikely ally for a cosmic journey like no other. Watch the teaser now! The Production VFX Supervisor is Geoffrey Baumann.The Production VFX Producer is Nico…
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Back in 2020, Mitchell Drain gave us a behind-the-scenes look at Digital Domain’s visual effects work on Perry Mason. Since then, he has contributed to major projects including The Last of Us, The Electric State, and A Minecraft Movie. In 2018, Nik…
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For The Witcher Season 4, Milk VFX blended CG magic, digital blades, creature work, and environment extensions to enrich the world of the Continent. Episode 6 features their standout work: two technically challenging, choreography-driven fight sequen…
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Discover how CGEV brings the past to life in Nouvel Vague. Their invisible VFX rebuild the Paris of the early ’60s, immersing us in the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s À bout de souffle, one of cinema’s most influential New Wave films! © Vincent…
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A new journey begins. The teaser for the upcoming season of Avatar: The Last Airbender unveils our first glimpse of the Earth Kingdom, promising bigger stakes, richer world-building, and breathtaking elemental action! Showrunners: Jabbar Raisani and…
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In the near future, a detective is on trial for his wife’s murder — and he has just 90 minutes to prove his innocence to the very A.I. Judge he once helped create. Watch the gripping new trailer for Mercy! The Production VFX Supervisor is Axel Bo…
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The NUKE 17.0 public beta brings Gaussian Splatting into the compositor pipeline, unlocking real-time, editable volumetric scenes directly inside Nuke.
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VFX supervisor Scott Stokdyk unpacks the visual effects of the latest Fantastic Four film, including how the team approached the film as three huge challenges.
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A quick look at some of the presentations we've highlighted at the upcoming SIGGRAPH Asia in Hong Kong.
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Could this partnership of Wētā FX & AWS be a turning point for creativity, artist-driven, and responsibility in AI VFX?
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A new powerful guide that shows filmmakers how to craft truly cinematic, emotionally powerful stories in Apple’s new immersive spatial format.
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In this episode of The VFXShow, Matt Wallin, Jason Diamond, and Mike Seymour dive into Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited passion project: Frankenstein.
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Hear how Foundation season 3’s jaw-dropping visuals came together as Chris MacLean walks us through the season’s standout VFX challenges and innovations.
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A conversation with DNEG VFX Supervisor Dan Bethell on how they turned sunny Sydney into a snow-covered New York as well as other work for Shane Black’s thriller, Play Dirty.
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Shaders, AI, and bananas...Zap is back on the fxpodcast to break down his wildest experiments with generative AI yet.
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In 28 Years Later, kinetic camerawork meets Union VFX’s seamless craft and story-driven effects.
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Luma AI's new Ray3 video model brings high quality generative video with a fast Draft Mode a step closer to true production-ready pipelines.
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We chat with Nichols & Thron about their careers and their new venture, SIGGRAPH highlights, and the future of filmmaking -- gaussian splats and all.
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Issue #47 of the magazine is out in print and digital.The post Crafting a cast of superheroes and villains for ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ appeared first on befores & afters.
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Behind the scenes of 'Predator: Badlands' in issue #46.The post Mandibles, missing legs and a whole lot of creatures appeared first on befores & afters.
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Read the entire digital magazine here, full of behind the scenes info and imagery.The post The 157-page befores & afters deep dive magazine on the VFX of ‘Sinners’ is now available for free appeared first on befores & afters.
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How the right school helped this FX artist land a credit on ‘Sinners’.The post From classroom to credits appeared first on befores & afters.
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This official 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' featurette sees the actor discuss performance capture, with a fun look behind the scenes of the Lightstorm volume.The post A poetic look behind the scenes of performance capture by Stephen Lang appeared first on…
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How to put two Michael B. Jordans on screen. An excerpt from issue #45 of befores & afters magazine on Sinners.The post The art of twinning appeared first on befores & afters.
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What might the follow-up to MAD GOD be?The post Phil Tippett on his latest personal projects, and his view on AI (it’s not what you might think) appeared first on befores & afters.
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Their 'What We Do' section contains some incredible making of material on recent films, and it now includes 'Zootopia 2'.The post Disney Animation’s website has a behind the scenes feature that is too good to miss appeared first on befores & after…
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Issue #45 of befores & afters is here and it covers twinning, vampires and more!The post 157 pages of VFX and filmmaking behind the scenes on ‘Sinners’ appeared first on befores & afters.
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Behind the chase scenes, light walls and that splitting police car in 'TRON: Ares'. An extract from issue #44 of the magazine.The post Light cycles, in the real world appeared first on befores & afters.
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The 2 giants have signed an MOU to explore the development of new rendering and AI tools aimed at optimizing visual effects production workflows.
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David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance has extended an all-cash offer at $30 per outstanding share (approximately $108.4 billion) for WBD after Netflix’s initial offer was accepted; shareholders have 10 business days to accept or reject the new offer…
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The six-episode season, set a century before the events of ‘Game of Thrones,’ debuts January 18; will also stream on HBO Max.
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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ scores nods for best animated feature, best cinematic and box office achievement, and best original song, while ‘Arco,’ ‘Demon Slayer,’ ‘Elio,’ ‘Little Amélie or the Character of Rain’ and ‘Zootopia 2’ ar…
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The cash and stock transaction, valued at $27.75 per share of WBD and approximately $82.7 billion overall, is expected to close in the next 12-18 months.
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The newest VES Handbook of Visual Effects edition includes contributions from 30 new VFX experts and covers new topics like AI; releases December 18 from Routledge.
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The final lineup for the free event, which each year spotlights the VFX and animation industries, features over 65 speakers across 15 hours of talks; will live stream via YouTube on December 8.
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The new release, shaped directly by creator feedback, includes upgrades to Cinema 4D, Redshift, ZBrush, and Red Giant; available now to all subscribers.
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The German VFX studio, part of the Cinesite Group, shares that it unfortunately has had to downsize but remains operational and in production on feature film projects.
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Deal calls for the companies to explore 3 specific areas where AI can meaningfully improve visual effects workflow efficiency and creative iteration.
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Season 2 premieres March 10, 2026; cast members Charithra Chandran, Mikaela Hoover, Joe Manganiello, Lera Abova, and Sendhil Ramamurthy will return as series regulars in Season 3.
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The ‘Alien: Earth’ and ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ creators will executive produce the limited series, based on Ubisoft’s video game franchise.
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French Shrinking Man uses complex motion control and VFX to scale Jean Dujardin to tiny size, blending real sets with CG for realism.
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Excl: Avatar Fire and Ash stars are still blown away by the work of Irish Oscar-winning VFX creator Richard Baneham  Geek Ireland
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Behind-the-Scenes on Making the Eye-Popping Visual Effects for “Superman”  Superman Homepage
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Oscar Shortlist Predictions  Awards Buzz
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Lola VFX enters producing with supernatural horror feature SIGIL  Reel 360 News
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Xilam and UGC partner on television adaptation of Bernard Werber bestseller - Señal News  Señal News
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BlueBolt appoints VFX supervisor Ben White from Cinesite  Broadcast
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VFX studio BlueBolt adds Vfx super Ben White  Televisual
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Sheridan to launch Canada's first honours degree in CGI and VFX  Oakville News
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The art of twinning  befores & afters
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fxpodcast: ​Scott Stokdyk and Fantastic Four: First Steps  fxguide
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Tippett Studio  Lucasfilm Ltd.
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Reflections on a turbulent year in VFX  Creative Review
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The Motion Awards 2025 nominees are here, representing the boldest, most innovative work in Motion Design today. From the journalistic force of The New York Times to the cinematic scale of Territory’s Dune: Part Two, and the technical brillianc…
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A look back at the work that shaped us, as we prepare to welcome a new class of nominees later this week.
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Unveiled during Playgrounds In Motion at London’s Barbican Centre, the opening titles for the event created by Design at Nexus Studios set the stage for this year’s highly-anticipated animation festival.
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New York, NY | October 2025 Long before launching campaigns for global brands or directing award–winning content, Damon Meena and Aaron Baumle were friends growing up in Louisville, Kentucky. Their creative paths later intersected at the School of…
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For someone whose nerves were at a self-described 10 out of 10 in the week leading up to his Saturday Night Live debut, first-time host Josh O’Connor began his Studio 8H debut about as smoothly as possible: In his monologue, the Wake Up Dead Man st…
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Saturday Night Live opened again with Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson), this time with the president trying to make it through an Air Force One press gaggle having used Adderall and Ambien. “Could you comment on the latest batch of Epstein photo…
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Though 2000’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas has become an indelible classic and holiday season staple since its premiere 25 years ago, the Ron Howard-directed and Jim Carrey-starring irreverent family comedy was nothing short of a Christmas miracl…
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Jeff Wexler, the BAFTA Award-winning and two-time Oscar-nominated sound mixer behind projects like Almost Famous, The Last Samurai and Independence Day, has died at the age of 78, his children confirmed in a statement to the Motion Picture Sound Edit…
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EXCLUSIVE: In Whose Name? — Nico Ballesteros’ lauded documentary chronicling Kanye West’s (now legally known as Ye) mental health struggles, bigoted proclamations and dissolution of his high-profile marriage to Kim Kardashian — will be made a…
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Heartbreak does not feel good in a place like this. In the wake of the startling news of Netflix’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (and Paramount’s hostile counter bid), Jane Fonda took to satire to convey her antitrust concerns. S…
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As the returning production designer from the first film, Nathan Crowley had a lot of new areas to explore in Wicked: For Good. From the seemingly floating castle Kiamo Ko to Elphaba’s forest hideaway, and even new locations within The Emerald City…
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Although Jack Nicholson has enjoyed a 15-year hiatus from the big screen, frequent collaborator James L. Brooks anticipates a return for the actor. The As Good As It Gets co-writer/director recently teased that the 3x Oscar-winning “greatest actor…
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Ahead if its world premiere as the 40th SXSW‘s opening-night film, Taylour Paige is looking forward to seeing her collaboration with Boots Riley in I Love Boosters. While discussing this weekend’s Season 1 finale of IT: Welcome to Derry, availabl…
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The Kitchen has ended its run on Food Network, with the last original episode airing on Saturday, December 13. Taking to social media to commemorate the end of an era, co-hosts Katie Lee, Sunny Anderson, Geoffrey Zakarian, and Jeff Mauro shared their…
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As Vin Diesel goes full throttle toward the Fast & Furious grand finale, he’s expanding the franchise’s star-studded extended cast with the onscreen debut of a global star. On Friday, the producer and star of the action movies announced that he h…
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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Adam Benzine is releasing a director’s cut of his award-winning documentary on Claude Lanzmann, the protean French author, philosopher and filmmaker who made the Holocaust epic Shoah. Benzine’s new version of…
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Hi everyone, I'm back to ask for some VFX advice. I have two short clips from a short film where we had an actress run a knife across her face. For safety's sake, we put a piece of cellophane tape across the blade and now I'm looking to erase…
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There is a french team of talents that just drop a really cool fan made CS GO operation trailer ! https://project-lockdown.com/ submitted by /u/Historical-Push-159 [link] [comments]
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I saw a post on here that was showing before and afters of How To Train Your Dragon, and one showed just a skeleton in the before, and then the full dragon model with its body in the after. My question is that are animators actually animating just t…
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Hi all, I'm using Houdini 21, with Karma/Solaris. I have a scene with an explosion in contact with the ground. I added a point light inside the explosion to have a better control of how many frames I want this light to appear. The problem is that I…
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What shots in recent trailers do you think were either done by AI? Or at least AI used used in the design process? The bus from the supergirl trailer looks a bit suspect and some of the cars from fantastic 4 trailer are some I think AI was used in th…
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I am thinking of doing some VFX for my upcoming short film using Blender, however I have no Idea how the workflow should be. Like should I first do the final grade of my video, then do the VFX shots to match my grade? I myself will be doing the editi…
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What laptops are you all using, and are you happy with your choice? I’m looking to replace a 15" 2018 MBP and since what I do 95% of the time is just remote into my Windows workstation I’m really not concerned with having a high spec laptop, but…
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