How the visual effects teams on the film helped orchestrate the mayhem. A John Wick film is often an exercise in the art of invisible effects, and some of the most invisible in Chad Stahelski’s John Wick 4 involved facilitating intense action by adding or augmenting muzzle flashes, bullet and[…]
On the set of Carnival Row with creature and make-up effects supervisor Nick Dudman. Prime Video’s Carnival Row series, which depicts a world inhabited by both humans and–unwanted–mythical creatures, took things up a level into its second season. That included for all the practical creature and make-up effects work overseen[…]
How that stunning nichevo’ya battle in Shadow and Bone was made. The season 2 finale of Netflix’s Shadow and Bone series features a dramatic sandy showdown between several shadow monsters, or nichevo’ya, and some of the show’s key characters. Bringing that fight between the smokey and particle-filled CG creations and[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
Both studios have published some fantastic VFX breakdowns of their work. Don’t forget to also check out issue #10 of befores & afters magazine in print, which dives deep into the practical make-up effects and creature work overseen by Nick Dudman. Related Source link
It’s just one of the sessions at the Montreal VFX and animation event in May. The full program has been announced and you can now grab tickets for the CAFÉ (Conference, Animation, FX, and Expertise) event in Montreal coming up on 16th and 17th May, at the Montréal Convention Center.[…]
Go behind the scenes with SISU Cinema Robotics and the precision imagery their ‘cinebots’ can pull off. It was at a trade show relating to engineering and automation when a videographer suggested to the company SISU that they put a camera on one of their existing programmable robot arms. Suddenly,[…]
A number of the opening space scenes, arrival on Pandora sequences, and views of Bridgehead were ILM visual effects shots. In mid-2022, as James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water was taking final shape for its December release date, the filmmakers realised that the enormous task of bringing complex worlds[…]
