Award-winning studio Framestore delivered the ‘spellbinding’ VFX for Netflix’s Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey. The film was written and directed by David E. Talbert, produced and featuring music by John Legend. The holiday film called for a deft mix of storybook Read more
To keep the global VFX community connected, engaged and inspired in this most unprecedented year, the Visual Effects Society launched a robust calendar of virtual content beginning in early spring, delivering more than three dozen exclusive virtual conversations with visionary Read more
Digital Domain reveals how they added decades to David Beckham’s age for the new Malaria Must Die – So Millions Can Live short, produced by RSA Films Amsterdam. Using a combination of traditional VFX techniques and its proprietary face-swapping technology. Digital Domain Read more
New ‘deep fake’ face-swapping videos seem to go viral on the internet with increasing regularity. Perhaps that’s because artists, and the machine learning algorithms they use for deep fakes, are increasingly getting so much better at them. Many have pondered, Read more
Sometimes visual effects artists are involved on a particular project for a long period of time and develop a close association with the creatures or shots they are working on. That was the case for the crew at Cambridge, U.K.-based Read more
Digital Titanic on a digital sea created by Digital Domain for the 1997 film. Legato earned an Academy Award for his work on Titanic. (Photo copyright © 1997 Twentieth Century Fox. All Rights Reserved) Rob Legato, ASC, didn’t set out Read more
Enigmatically identified only as ‘The Protagonist,’ John David Washington’s character is one of the agents tasked with averting a global disaster in Tenet. (All images courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures.) “Even after reading the script four times, I was still working Read more
One of the methods visual effects artists use to help integrate computer graphics into their scenes is by adding weathering, wear and tear, grime and extra dirt. It can help make things feel ‘lived in’. But what if, instead, you Read more
Disney’s Mulan, the re-imagining of the beloved tale, arrives on major digital retail platforms beginning October 6. It has never-before-seen bonus footage and deleted scenes exclusively in digital in Ultra HD quality and Dolby Audio on compatible devices. Mulan is directed by acclaimed Read more
In Seth Rogen’s, An American Pickle, immigrant worker, Hershel Greenbaum, emigrates to America in 1919, in search of a better life. However, the unfortunate Herschel falls into a vat of pickles in the factory he’s working at killing rats and wakes Read more
