Epic Games Releases MetaHuman Update
New features and enhancements make it easier for users to share, collaborate and refine assets while facilitating DNA Calibration and integration into proprietary pipelines.
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Scanline VFX Gets All Wrapped Up with ‘Stranger Things' Season 4
Harnessing the power of V-Ray, the VFX house created nightmarish portals to the Upside Down, an exploding helicopter, and sinister vine attacks combining practical effects with CG on some of the show's most exciting scenes.
In 3D, CG, Digital Media, People, Technology, Television, Visual Effects | Headline News, VFXWorld | Geographic Region: All
Rising Sun Pictures Delivers the Gods on Marvel’s ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’
The studio produced over 300 VFX for Taika Waititi and Marvel Studio’s latest MCU action-adventure, including the film’s impressive opening and closing sequences.
In 3D, Acting, CG, Films, People, Technology, Visual Effects | Headline News, VFXWorld | Geographic Region: Australia
Digital Domain Pushes the Limits of Monstrous VFX in ‘Morbius’
To create dynamic vampires and immersive battle scenes, the award-winning FX hub made improvements to the same tech it used to make Thanos in the ‘Avengers’ films.
The Heroic Logistics of ‘Superman & Lois’ VFX
VFX supervisor John Gajdecki and VFX producer Matthew Gore, working with more than a dozen vendors as well as an inhouse team of 44 artists, increased the Season 1 shot count by 25%, across a wide array of complex visuals, in The CW show’s Season 2 production.
One of Us Details its Extraterrestrial VFX From ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’
The studio’s team shares how it created the Showtime sci-fi series’ stunning space bound shots, alien skin suit technology, and deformed faces.
In 2D, 3D, Acting, CG, Digital Media, People, Technology, Television, Visual Effects | Headline News, VFXWorld | Geographic Region: All
Unreal Engine Mesh to MetaHuman Plugin Now Available
New features for the cloud-based MetaHuman Creator let users create photorealistic digital humans, complete with hair and clothing, in minutes; plugin features support new character rigging, animation, and physics features in UE5.
In 3D, Business, CG, Digital Media, Films, Games, Technology, Television, Virtual Production, Visual Effects | ANIMATIONWorld, Headline News, VFXWorld | Geographic Region: All
MPC Marks ‘Ghostbusters Day’ With Dr. Spengler VFX Breakdown
Tasked with recreating the late Harold Ramis in ‘Ghost Busters: Afterlife,’ the VFX studio referenced earlier movies, concept art, and libraries of skin maps and photos, to deliver a digital character that was satisfying to both audiences and the actor’s family.
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Scanline VFX Goes with the Flow on ‘The Batman’
Leading visual effects studio delivers 217 shots across 11 sequences in the DC thriller’s action-packed third act, including the destruction of seven dams and subsequent tsunami that engulfs Gotham Square Gardens.
FuseFX Goes Inside a Post-Civil War Manhattan in ‘DMZ’
VFX supervisor Brian Kubovcik discusses his team’s work creating the devastated urban landscape of various famed New York locations, such as Chinatown and The Manhattan Bridge, in the new HBO Max miniseries, based on Brian Wood’s Vertigo comic series.
In 3D, Acting, CG, Digital Media, People, Post-production, Previs, Television, Visual Effects | VFXWorld | Geographic Region: All
DNEG Visual Effects Get Airborne in Sony's ‘Uncharted’
VFX supervisors Sebastian von Overheidt and Benoit De Longlee delivered 739 shots, including a 90-second sequence of heroes Nathan Drake and Chloe Frazer falling from a C-17 cargo plane flying over the South China Sea, in Ruben Fleischer’s action-adventure adaptation of the Naughty Dog videogame franchise.
Ingenuity Studios Delivers More Than Anxiety with ‘Dollface’ VFX
Visual effects house produces 494 shots across 10 episodes on Season 2 of the Hulu comedy, helping to visualize Kat Dennings’ wild imagination and insecurities, a Disney 2D animated fairy tale parody, and of course… the Cat Lady.
In 2D, 3D, Acting, CG, Digital Media, People, Technology, Television, Visual Effects | VFXWorld | Geographic Region: All
NVIDIA Once Again Powers All 5 Oscar-Nominated VFX Films
For the 14th consecutive year, each Academy Award nominee for the Best Visual Effects used NVIDIA technologies.
In 3D, Acting, Awards, CG, Digital Media, Event, Films, People, Technology, Virtual Production, Visual Effects | Headline News, VFXWorld | Geographic Region: All
DNEG Helps Visualize the 'Real World' of ‘The Matrix Resurrections’
Leading VFX and animation studio delivers more than 700 visual effects shots, filled with CG environments and digital characters including sentinels and harvesters, the Cybebe, Kuhjaku, Lumin8, and Mnemosyne ship, in Lana Wachowski’s fourth ‘The Matrix’ franchise installment.
In 3D, CG, Digital Media, Films, People, Technology, Virtual Production, Visual Effects | VFXWorld | Geographic Region: All
Framestore Has a Blast with ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ VFX
Studio delivers 443 shots, including 3rd act mayhem involving a high-octane motorcycle chase, an explosive helicopter encounter, and human torpedoes dropping from San Francisco high-rises, in the highly anticipated fourth ‘The Matrix’ franchise installment.
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Scanline Comes up Roses with ‘Eternals’ VFX
Leading visual effects studio delivers 233 shots across 12 sequences, including the action-packed battle through Camden between the deviant Kro and Eternals Sersei and Sprite, turning a double decker bus into rose petals, and extensive cosmic FX work including suns, big bang explosions, and supernovas, on Marvel’s latest MCU adventure.
It’s No Day at the Beach for Weta Digital on ‘Eternals’
The leading VFX studio delivers 552 visual effects shots on Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao’s MCU Phase 4 adventure, including the 3rd act beach fight scenes and planet-sized Celestial Tiamut.
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It’s Game On for Digital Domain’s ‘Free Guy’ VFX
Leading visual effects studio delivered 89 digital environments, 87 gameplay shots, and 347 VFX shots on Shawn Levy’s comedy adventure starring Ryan Reynolds as a bank teller who discovers he’s a background player in an open-world video game.
Scanline Delivers an Abrupt Change in Travel Plans for ‘Blood Red Sky’
Visual Effects studio produces 527 shots on Peter Thorwarth’s harrowing tale of an airplane hijacking gone astray because of one passenger with an unnatural thirst for blood.
In 3D, CG, Digital Media, Films, People, Technology, Visual Effects | VFXWorld | Geographic Region: All, Europe
ILM’s VFX Help Marvel Studios ‘Wing It’ in ‘Black Widow’
The storied visual effects studio delivers 800 shots, tackling the high-octane opening small plane escape scenes, a Budapest shoot-out and car chase across the city, and the widows fight in villain Dreykov’s flying HQ, in Marvel Studios’ most recent MCU action-thriller.
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Creating the Menacing, Dystopian World of ‘Pennyworth’ Season 2
For VFX supervisor Rob Delicata, a much darker new season narrative meant more dramatic visual effects were needed to drive Alfred Pennyworth’s ongoing story of an alternate 60’s London embroiled in a devastating civil war.
Weta Digital Soars with ‘The Falcon and The Winter Soldier’ VFX
Visual effects supervisor Charlie Tait explains the studio’s death-defying Episode 1 aerial chase and mid-air fight sequences in Marvel Studios and Disney+’s action-packed six-episode MCU outing.
In 3D, Acting, CG, Digital Media, People, Previs, Technology, Television, Visual Effects | VFXWorld | Special Events: Emmy Awards | Geographic Region: All
Netflix Adds Paul Debevec as Director of Research
The Academy Award-winning computer graphics pioneer joins streamer’s Data Science and Engineering team to oversee new technology development across VFX, virtual production, and animation production.
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Creating the Post-Apocalyptic World of Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’
Overall VFX supervisor Jake Braver, with the help of ILM VFX supervisor Laurent Hugueniot, delivers 2,800 VFX shots depicting a world decimated by plague and a city ruled by supernatural evil, in the 9-part series from CBS Television Studios now streaming on Paramount+.
Scanline VFX Tackles the Cosmic Rewind in ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’
Led by VFX supervisor Bryan Hirota, studio delivers 1,000 visual effects shots across 22 sequences, from Steppenwolf’s complete redo to the Flash’s epic time reversal.
In 3D, Acting, CG, Digital Media, Films, People, Technology, Visual Effects | VFXWorld | Geographic Region: All
