If you’ve noticed that a raft of animated films, shows and visual effects projects have been toying with more hand-crafted effects animation lately, you’re not alone. There’s somewhat of a trend right now to go ‘old school’ on these big Read more
Images courtesy of Marvel Studios and Framestore. Battered teenage Groot was made slightly taller and beefier with chips, charring and dirt. Among the army of visual effects vendors working for Marvel Studios Visual Effects Supervisor Jake Morrison for Thor: Love and Read more
Light & Magic is the 2022 documentary TV series directed by Lawrence Kasdan, produced by Lucasfilm and Imagine Documentaries. The series is available now on Disney+ in six episodes. Lawrence Kasdan has managed to make a brilliant and thoughtful look at Read more
Bullet Train is directed by David Leitch from a screenplay by Zak Olkewicz. It is based on the 2010 novel Maria Beetle by Kōtarō Isaka. The film stars Brad Pitt as an assassin, codenamed “Ladybug”, who must battle a team of killers while Read more
Images courtesy of Digital Domain and Marvel Studios. Digital Domain had to come up with how effects simulations would work and look to show what happens when two universes collide with each other. Living up to its title is Doctor Strange Read more
Deadline render farm management software has always been about simplifying the data-intensive and herculean final step of the visual effects (VFX) process. Born out of production, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Thinkbox product has played a crucial role in modern Read more
Images courtesy of Universal Studios. The chase involving the Velociraptors combined plate photography from Malta and Chris Pratt riding a stationary motorbike on a massive rolling road in the U.K. Prehistoric beasts have had a constant presence in the life Read more
Netflix is acquiring more VFX and animation companies with the acquisition of Australia’s premiere studio Animal Logic. For over three decades Animal Logic has been at the very heart of Australian effects and animation. From its humble beginnings in Crows Read more
Images courtesy of DNEG and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Tom Holland as treasure hunter Nathan Drake negotiates a daisy-chain of crates falling from a C-17 cargo plane in a complex mix of practical and visual effects from DNEG. Ferdinand Magellan was Read more
In photography, there are two types of distortions: optical and perspective. Both result in some kind of deformation of images – some lightly and others very noticeably. While optical distortion is caused by the optical design of lenses (and is Read more
