Independent, London-based visual effects studio BlueBolt has added Tracy McCreary, Henry Badgett, and Nic Birmingham to its Board of Directors. The new board members join studio co-founders Lucy Ainsworth-Taylor and Angela Barson, who will be stepping back from day-to-day operations while remaining involved as directors and shareholders. Managing director McCreary[…]
Wonder Studio is a browser-based platform that allows people to drag and drop a computer-generated character into any scene and using artificial intelligence, it will replace a live-action actor with a Mocap version of the digital character. It replaces any actor in the scene with a 3D character without the[…]
Netflix has shared new details, first-look images, and casting reveals for nine animated films slated for release over the next 18 months. Capacity seems high – remember, last summer, the streamer announced its acquisition of the award-winning independent animation studio Animal Logic. Just saying… Highlights include two new feature films[…]
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a 2022 American mystery film that follows master detective Benoit Blanc as he investigates a murder at tech billionaire Miles Bron’s mansion on a private island in Greece. Miles has invited five friends, including Alpha head scientist Lionel Toussaint, Connecticut governor Claire Debella,[…]
Marrying practical miniatures with CG served perfectly on RRR’s dramatic bridge scene. In dramatic style, S. S. Rajamouli’s RRR stormed the world with its tale of two Indian revolutionaries, Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem. The film exhibited a fresh brand of visual flair in its VFX work, overseen by[…]
It’s official. The newest installment in the Monsterverse is Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, and Legendary has dropped a title reveal trailer for the occasion. Godzilla Vs. Kong director Adam Wingard is back for the sequel project, with a script by Terry Rossio and Jeremy Slater from a story[…]
Key lessons the visual effects studio learnt on the impressive virtual production series. When I talked to members of the Framestore team about 1899, the mysterious Netflix series set on the steamship Kerberos that was largely filmed on a LED volume at Studio Babelsberg, what stood out for them were[…]
Scream queen Mia Goth is headed to the MCU! The Pearl and X actress has joined the upcoming Blade reboot in an undisclosed role; the film stars Mahershala Ali as the eponymous vampire slayer. Yann Demange (Lovecraft Country, White Boy Rick) has taken the helm of the wayward film, which lost[…]
Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson Union VFX provided the VFX for the Award-winning and Oscar-nominated The Banshees of Inisherin. The film is a remarkable dark tragicomedy film that is set on a remote, fictional island off the west coast of Ireland in 1923. The film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson[…]
The latest episode of the befores & afters podcast is here! This week on the befores & afters podcast, we’re chatting to FX artist Urban Bradeško—aka the Explosions Guy—about Axiom. Axiom is a sparse GPU accelerated volumetric fluid solver, which comes from Theory Accelerated, a company Urban is the co-owner[…]
