Mind Your Business: Time to Change Pre-Production Rules

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Mark discusses how execs need to get used to story artists editing their own animatics.

Victoria Alonso and Jeff White Talk The Avengers

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The film’s Executive Producer and ILM VFX Supervisor discuss the Oscar®-nominated superhero epic’s visual effects challenges.

2013 VFX Bakeoff: Grounding the Fantastical

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Here's a rundown of the 10 films from last night's VFX Bakeoff presentations at the Motion Picture Academy.

Software Review: Nuke 7

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Digital compositor Daniel Molina takes a look at the Foundry’s latest Nuke release.

All The World’s a Virtual Stage in Disney’s New Camera Capture System

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Disney redefines animation layout, staging and visual development with their paradigm-changing virtual camera system.

Software Review: CINEMA 4D R14

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Key rendering, modeling and camera enhancements along with new sculpting tools make this a robust and worthy upgrade.

I’ve Been Workin’ on the Railroad

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FuseFX Co-Founder Jason Fotter explains why visual effects work can be Hell on Wheels.

Bond Gets a CG Komodo Dragon for Skyfall

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Cinesite's Jon Neill discusses creating the first CG character for the Bond franchise along with other VFX mayhem.

Life of Pi: Grabbing the CG Tiger by the Tail

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Bill Westenhofer of Rhythm & Hues discusses the VFX secret to Ang Lee's Life of Pi.

Bringing Horror back to Little Shop

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WB’s Kurt Galvao on the creation of The Director’s Cut decades in the making.