Project Hail Mary: Rocky The Puppet | befores & afters
Project Hail Mary creature effects creative supervisor Neal Scanlan discusses how Rocky was brought to life via puppeteering.
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ILM Series: Rob Bredow | befores & afters
Rob Bredow shares ‘Solo’ stories, and how ILM inspired him before he was even at ILM. Rob is Senior Vice President of Creative Innovation at Lucasfilm.
In Your Dreams: How NightMara Was Made | befores & afters
Watch ImageworksVFX's behind the scenes video on how they made the character Nightmara for In Your Dreams, narrated by VFX supervisor Nicola Lavender.
ILM Series: Dennis Muren | befores & afters
The legendary VFX supervisor on the speeder bike chase in Return of the Jedi, the stained glass knight in Young Sherlock Holmes, how ILM conquered digital compositing, and more.
Gaussian Splatting in Superman | Framestore
Framestore's approach has always been that great VFX are powered by great tech. On Superman, they became the first to use 4D Gaussian Splatting in a feature film to capture volumetric performances with photorealistic fidelity.
Disney Innovation: From Sodium Vapor to ILM StageCraft
Explore how Disney revolutionized visual effects with the sodium vapor process, a technique pioneered by Disney Legend Ub Iwerks that allowed filmmakers to create natural-looking backgrounds, decades before blue and green screens became common in filmmaking.
The Last of Us S2: Simulating Weather | Wētā FX
Snowfall, fog and atmospheric conditions were carefully composited using a segmentation and depth extraction toolkit. Combined using deep data and onset LIDAR remapping, the weather was transformed to become not just a beautifully harsh environment but also a key character in the episode.
VFX Artists React: Joe Letteri | Corridor Crew
On this very special episode, Wren and Niko are joined by VFX legend Joe Letteri from Wētā FX to get into the details of his work on James Cameron's Avatar: Fire and Ash.
The Invisible Effects of Marty Supreme with Eran Dinur | CG Garage
Eran Dinur reveals how his team meticulously recreated period accurate crowds in Tokyo and Wembley while keeping the digital work entirely invisible. For Eran, the ultimate compliment is a viewer who walks out of the theater believing every single frame was captured in camera.