Back in 2022, Dadi Einarsson took us behind the visual effects of The Witcher Season 2. After working on She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, he made his way to Westeros for House of the Dragon Season 2. Now, he joins us again to discuss his work and the chall…
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Filming in the wild! Go behind the scenes of Heart of the Beast with a new featurette exploring the making of its breathtaking wilderness sequences. The survival thriller follows a Special Forces officer and his combat dog after a devastating plane c…
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Things are getting seriously unhinged in Digger! Tom Cruise takes center stage in the wild final trailer as his mission to save humanity spirals into chaos. Digger has unveiled its first official trailer, offering a glimpse at Alejandro G. Iñárritu…
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Step into Outworld! Australian studio Future Associate breaks down its work on Mortal Kombat II, from the Blue Portal post-viz and Kung Lao’s razor hat to Jade’s CG staff, the Red Throne Room, Tarkatan sequences and Netherworld environments. Futu…
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Two years after the events that left Japan devastated, Godzilla Minus Zero brings the iconic monster back for another confrontation. This epic trailer offers a spectacular look at a country whose hard-won recovery is suddenly threatened once again. D…
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A new Resident Evil, deeply connected to the games. This featurette explores the inspiration behind Zach Cregger’s approach to the iconic franchise. The production’s visual effects are supervised by Alessandro Ongaro, alongside Production VFX Pro…
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Back in 2022, Michael Bruce Ellis spoke with us about his work on Enola Holmes 2. He returns today to discuss the visual effects behind the third Enola Holmes film. Having supervised all three Enola Holmes films, how has the visual effects approach e…
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Danny Boyle heads back to 1969 in the first teaser for Ink, exploring the transformation of The Sun into Britain’s most influential tabloid and the partnership that helped reshape the newspaper. Set against the rapidly changing British media landsc…
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The end of Silo is getting closer! Apple TV has unveiled the first sneak peek at the fourth and final season, offering an intriguing glimpse at what lies ahead. But beware: major Season 3 spoilers are waiting inside! Apple TV has released the first s…
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From CG stadiums to crowds of more than 90,000 fans, FOLKS brought the scale and energy of game day to Chad Powers. As the sole VFX vendor on the series, the studio delivered more than 600 shots. The team transformed real locations into iconic venues…
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A final dose of Looney Tunes energy! Los Angeles-based studio Filmograph reveals its Main on End Title Sequence for Coyote vs. Acme, created around Wile E. Coyote’s David vs. Goliath battle against the Acme corporation. Working with director Dave G…
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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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Join the team for our latest episode as they dig deep into how the film was made, debate what worked and what didn’t, and put the filmmaking choices under the microscope.
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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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Plus, how the creatures were designed for the film.The post The director of ‘HOPE’ breaks down those insane chase scenes, and working on mocap with Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender appeared first on befores & afters.
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ILM VFX supe Russell Earl and ILM anim supe Kevin Martel examine the third act battle in 'The Electric State'.The post Building up a battle appeared first on befores & afters.
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Where the machine learning technology is expanding to.The post Pitch Black’s Troy Tobin on where Rising Sun’s REVIZE is now headed appeared first on befores & afters.
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Issue #65 of befores & afters magazine covers the visual effects of The Electric State.The post So many robots appeared first on befores & afters.
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Congrats to all the nominees!The post ‘Stranger Things’ and ‘Spider-Noir’ win VFX Emmys appeared first on befores & afters.
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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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Booth visitors September 11-14 will get an early look at October's ecosystem release, including new 3D world-building in the flagship app, an end-to-end desktop-and-iPad sculpting workflow, procedural fur and cinematic color in the renderer, and AI-p…
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He lives! The first Japanese production filmed for IMAX, Takashi Yamazaki's sequel to his Oscar-winning kaiju hit picks up in 1949 with the Shikishima family facing a new calamity; world premiere on September 26, in Japanese theaters November 3, Nort…
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Rising Sun Pictures leads this set with five contracts, alongside roles at Blizzard, Netflix, EA, WildBrain, Scopely and Activision's summer internship program.
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Oscar-winning producer of 'Encanto' and 'Zootopia 2' brings exclusive footage from studio’s upcoming witch saga; expansive program of top creatives includes Brad Bird, Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado, Michelle Grady, Holly Edwards, Hal Hickel, Pau…
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The former managing director of the studio's Quebec subsidiary takes over operations, delivery, and client services in the region, reporting to director of production Kate Warburton; studio recently nominated for an Emmy for work on ‘Foundation’…
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The Oxford Metrics motion capture division picks up the Manchester maker of the CoreHMC head-mounted rig, which feeds performer data into Unreal Engine and MetaHuman Animator.
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ILM leads this set with texture, modeling, lighting and animation roles on three continents, alongside Crafty Apes, Framestore, Netflix Animation Studios and Treyarch.
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The 8-episode first season, starring Dominic McLaughlin as the boy wizard with John Lithgow as Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Snape and Nick Frost as Hagrid, debuts Christmas 2026 on the network and HBO Max.
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Streamer doesn’t renew the Nicolas Cage 1930s Marvel detective series, an elaborate dual-format color / black & white production that garnered 11 Emmy nominations, just before its title design and VFX teams won Creative Arts Emmys this past weekend…
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The first two of the three Emmy Award ceremonies were held this past weekend, with Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s iconic comedy taking home the award for Outstanding Animated Program alongside Prime Video’s retro-superhero thriller and post-apocaly…
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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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The Odyssey | Christopher Nolan reveals his visual effects secret to Guillermo del Toro  Film Stories
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Maxon to Preview Fall Cinema 4D, ZBrush and Redshift Updates at IBC2026  Animation World Network
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Alumna’s Visual Effects Career Reaches New Heights With Emmy Win  newsroom.csun.edu
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'Godzilla Minus Zero' Trailer Drops, NYFF Premiere and U.S. Release Set  Animation World Network
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ILM Celebrates 60 Years of Star Trek – Part 2: From Next Generation to Alternate Realities  Industrial Light & Magic
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AWN Jobs Roundup, September 10: 24 Animation and VFX Openings Worldwide  Animation World Network
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The director of ‘HOPE’ breaks down those insane chase scenes, and working on mocap with Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender  befores & afters
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David Cordon on Afterburn, Creative Restraint and Finding the Human Inside the Machine  Indie Shorts Mag
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Building up a battle  befores & afters
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Yvett Merino to Preview Disney's 'Hexed' at VIEW Conference 2026  Animation World Network
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How VFX Wizard John Knoll & Sound Master David Acord Made "The Mandalorian and Grogu" Bigger Than Ever  Motion Picture Association
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Highly acclaimed Wētā FX’s losses narrow for a third year  thepost.co.nz
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Twenty years, twenty days. To mark Motionographer's 20th anniversary, job postings on Motionographer Jobs are free from September 10 through September 29, every submission personally reviewed, every approved listing live for 30 days.
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MAKE, the creative studio known for impactful animation and original storytelling, has officially opened applications for the 2026 MAKE Animation Thesis Grant. The annual program offers senior animation students funding, production resources, and pro…
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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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Fans of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir can expect a live-action version of the animated series, its co-creator Jeremy Zag has said. Meanwhile, his studio, Zag Entertainment, is also making headway on Melody, an animated feature film with Kat…
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EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has sparked unrest among staff with plans to slash taxi usage for night shift workers. Bosses at the UK broadcaster want to change the qualifying time for expensable cab fares, meaning employees would have to leave work 30 minutes…
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Pierce Brosnan has said that it is all happy families on the set of Paramount+’s MobLand. At the Season 2 premiere in London, Brosnan was asked about the behind-the-scenes drama involving Tom Hardy, who reportedly clashed with showrunner Jez Butter…
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EXCLUSIVE: Indian cricket legend Virender Sehwag is swapping the bat and pads for a suit and microphone. The sporting superstar, known as the Sultan of Multan, has been unveiled as host for Season 2 of Rise and Fall, Prime Video India’s reality ser…
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The 2026 Toronto Film Festival kicked off Thursday, September 10, and features a slew of world premieres including the official opening-night film Being Heumann, Oscar winner Siân Heder‘s follow-up to her Best Picture winner CODA. The event’s 51…
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While the title Being Heumann is a reference to disability rights activist Judy Heumann’s tireless efforts in legislating accessibility, the biopic is better viewed as an ensemble piece that captures the entire movement she championed. In writer-di…
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Warner Bros and Alcon’s Practical Magic 2 starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman is off to a solid start in previews with an estimated $3.5 million to $4 million after showtimes that began Thursday at 2 p.m. Those figures are higher than the pre…
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Jimmy Kimmel’s interview with James Talarico was posted to YouTube on Thursday evening rather than the late-night host’s ABC broadcast amid concerns over an FCC enforcement action. “Why are they so scared of you?” Kimmel asked Talarico at the…
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Stephen King has weighed in on Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of Carrie, and he has a positive review. The supernatural horror miniseries premieres on October 7 on Prime Video with Summer H. Howell in the title role. Ahead of its release, the author of…
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In 2015, Alyssa Hill’s startling Holocaust-themed script made the Black List of best unproduced screenplays. Now, a decade later, it has finally been made, and somehow the timing is just right for this challenging and pertinent portrait of a woman…
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The first night of Donald Trump’s midterm convention failed to generate a ratings bounce for Fox News, with the audiences comparable or even slightly below regular primetime programming. Fox News’s coverage of the convention dominated the primeti…
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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details on Big Brother Season 28, Episode 32, which aired on Thursday, September 10. As Big Brother Season 28 winds down, the game intensifies, and big moves have to be made to make it to finale night. Host Julie Che…
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Pure Digital Performance. Happy to hear some feedback on the work(original music/direction/camera paths/behaviour/interaction/scene etc) submitted by /u/Smart-Proof-1861 [link] [comments]
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I developed this as an independent product-film concept focused on material formation, product cinematography and motion design. The main challenge was making the shoe progressively construct itself from textile fibers and volumetric material r…
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I noticed so many sequences where the movement from the aliens felt almost reminiscent of something you’d see from Phil Tippett or Ray Harryhausen. The models look completely computer generated but there’s a kind of jank or imperfection in the mo…
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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zQFFjjbnq5-KL2gJ-nXuXV1Ks-2zYnGC Inside this drive file is a video containing my recent project which is a school project (only half a minute tho since we 're not done completing all the footage), well the mai…
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A contract role at this outfit came across my desk and I'm trying to work out how solid they are before I go any further. What I've been able to establish myself: the UK entity (ACME AI & FX Limited, company no. 17300862) was only incorporated at the…
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Elenna Raguin created this effect using custom materials within UE5 to reinforce the flow of the effect. Breakdown coming soon. If you want to create similar effects, check out the free edition of PopcornFX submitted by /u/Official_Popcor…
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i got the student license and i want to learn how to track my arm so i can add a cgi arm as an occluder to for example add a ring that spins around my arm or an armor piece but when i try to track it in syntheyes it doesnt work. it just says solving…
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i got the student license and i want to learn how to track my arm so i can add a cgi arm as an occluder to for example add a ring that spins around my arm, but when i try to track it in syntheyes it doesnt work. it just says solving failed, are there…
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